Company provided comms and connectivity for annual Wembley football match

Sidemen Charity Match

Spiritland Productions provided production comms, RF coverage and more for the recent Sidemen charity match.

The company had its Connect Four OB truck on site for the game, which took place at Wembley on 18 April. The vehicle was part of a system that provided the production, which was handled by After Party Studios, with comms and RF audio that was rigged in just six hours.

Spiritland Sidemen

The match was in support of Bright Side and M7 Education, with Sidemen FC’ taking on YouTube Allstars, with players including KSI, AngryGinge, Max Fosh, and Niko, among others. 

Over 80 Riedel Bolero comms were in use, as well as a Bolero S referee pack and referee camera that were linked to the stadium intercom and the broadcast. Spiritland Productions also supplied all music playback, microphones, IEMs and infrastructure for the half-time Tinie Tempah performance, providing coverage from the dressing rooms all the way to the centre of the pitch, with assistance from Plus 4 Audio.

The players were also offered small Q5X RF packs that could be strapped to them for on-pitch audio coverage, which one took them up on.

This was in addition to the stadium wide RF, as well as all pundit and presenter RF, including all the IFB in-ear feeds, and coverage for the dressing rooms, tunnel and pitch, plus intercoms for production areas.

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This allowed the presenters and pundits complete free rein to go anywhere live on air and still be heard and hear their talkback. This included anywhere on the pitch, in the dressing rooms and in the tunnel - running 16 lines of RF and 10 lines of IEMS.

There was also some video work, with Spiritland Productions livestreaming the vertical video elements to the Sidemen YouTube channel using the Connect Four’s bonding.

The company also provided a sitewide WiFi network for VixiUsers to connect to livestream mobile footage in the broadcast.

Spiritland commented on the work, “The Sidemen Charity Match is a huge show for us, and it was great to be back for 2026. We were tasked with delivering flawless connectivity across every corner of a packed Wembley Stadium, ensuring presenters and pundits had total freedom to move while staying live on air and connected via talkback. We also enabled Tinie Tempah to start his set from the dressing room before walking into the stadium mid-performance. Delivering all of this required a mammoth radio frequency set-up, but it was a fantastic challenge – and even more rewarding to see it raise so much for charity.”