About us
Shameless is a Czech company founded by people fascinated by work at concerts and other shows and spectacles. We have been in the industry since 2007 and our main motivation is to see jobs done professionally. We maintain our 100% commitment and thanks to our own system for staff management, we are the current Czech leader in short-term work providers.
timeline
Jáchym and David are two boys who want to see spectacular concerts, but the pocket money from their moms doesn’t cover it.
So they become stagehands. Jáchym starts to tote fences, and David builds stages at festivals.
They pull cases together
for the first time, being christened by the famous Lucerna club. Thus begins a friendship that lasts till today. If needed, they organize a couple of friends to join them.
2007
Under the lead of our forefather Jakub “Kubča” Teplý the core of the future StageBitch is formed.
We all liked metal, but the first show where we met was surprisingly the Czech pop star Aneta Langerová Tour.:)
Hammerfall
the concert
that rewrote history because it was the first one to be fully secured by our crew. We successfully cooperate with the Czech Arts Agency Pragokoncert since then.
2008
2009
The number of friends rises to tens.
Thanks to that Jáchym and David can ensure the building of all stages at the Votvírák festival. It is a chore, but all 54 stagehands including the two of them survive, and they launch the JD Stagehands brand.
2010
The new brand needs
a website!
David’s longterm friend Petr joins in and creates the first internal website. In comparison to a shared Excel sheet, it is a major improvement. Data about all events are available online in real time.
This year is the cornerstone of StageBitch.
As a group, we went to the festivals Colours of Ostrava and Sonisphere, and we built the first year of Metalfest during the summer holidays. The core substance of StageBitch was formed and some members hold on until today.
2011
Jáchym’s and David’s
comments and Petr’s enthusiasm lead to the second version of the web. It allows workers to sign up and see available jobs. To join the job they still need to write a text message though.
We begin to occupy
the Czech metal life slowly, but inevitably. We participate in Brutal Assault festival for the first time and take part in most of the metal production in Prague.
Stagehands basis grows
we participate in Rock for Churchill and Let It Roll festivals. The first version of the OnSinch application, which allows workers to sign themselves up for jobs, is launched on the first of October. We establish the OnSinch company and are joined by our lead programmer Honza “Pešán” Pešek.
2012
An application for work
management is created with the hands and genius brains of our Shaman. As the whole company, the application is a bit punk.:)
Lucerna Music Bar, MeetFactory
and other important Czech production and rental companies become our clients. We create the first company merchandise and launch the second version of the OnSinch application that allows individual logins of clients and order creation online.
2013
We participate in the first year
of Aerodrome festival at which System Of A Down is the main star. We build stages at Votvírák and spend the summer at festivals. We begin to cooperate with T Servis.
We provide a complete crew support
for Metallica’s mega-concert at Aerodrome festival.
We build the Olympic park at Letná.
The festivals Colours of Ostrava and United Islands request our services. We release our stagehands manual and begin to organize workshops for new stagehands.
2014
2015
With a growing number of events
more experienced workers are needed. We meet with Matěj “Kráva” Štěpán and negotiate about possibly merging with the Shameless crew. The fusion happens in December.
2017
2018
2019
2021
2020
2022
2023
2024
2016
The united crews become Shameless
OnSinch remains the application brand. Thanks to the fusion we are able to keep high standards and quality with a high number of members. We build stages for the first ever Metronome festival in Prague and traditionally provide crew for large festivals all around the Czech Republic and concerts in Prague.
The most successful and the most challenging year for the Shameless crew.
The season highlights are (among others) the mega Let It Roll festival with nine giant stages and hundreds of world known performers, the Czech famous band Kabát’s tour, and the first ever tennis exhibition Laver Cup. We started to intensively cooperate with foreign clients.
Foreign cooperation continues so we visited Germany several times.
We organize first trainings for light electricians and create specialized groups such as light electricians and riggers. Certainly, our people appreciate off-the-job activities. All the working team complete first aid training. Updated version of the Shameless roadie handbook is published. We start a collaboration with Singing Rock, our new supplier of working equipment. Martinka, Dejv and Martin become new membres of our office group.
This year started with a lot of traveling through Europe
when our rigging team flexed their muscles on various fairgrounds in Germany and four other members of our team were deployed on a six months tour with The Illusionist show. The rest of our crew was busy as well, building one event after another. Keeping the pace another group of workers joined the production team for a series of medical conferences throughout Europe in the beginning of summer, working as a conference rooms technicians. After the usual string of summer festivals this year’s highlight was waiting for us – Ed Sheeran’s double concert in Prague.
The beginning of the year is going according to plan.
We are handling events such as Dream Theater, Adam Plachetka, James Blunt, and Comic-Con. In March, we are managing the production of Slava’s SnowShow at the Hybernia Theatre, but then the Covid-19 pandemic hits, paralyzing the cultural sector and, consequently, our operations.
Concerts and festivals are canceled, so we join the IntermeSOS initiative, which connects unemployed people with companies looking for seasonal workers. Our crew helps with demolitions, construction, gardening, and warehouse work.
In the fall, the restrictions ease, and we can collaborate on events such as Praha Září, Lucerna Openair, and Harley Days. At the end of the year, we join the European initiative We Make Events and light up cultural buildings in red. We also launch a series of interviews called "Professionals in Culture."
At the beginning of the year, our options
are quite limited.
We assemble Covid tests, count respirators, work on construction sites, in warehouses, and in gardens. The first signs of hope come in February with the event "Národ sobě, kultura tobě" at the National Theatre. We don’t get involved in another event until May with "Šance pro kulturu" at Křižík’s Fountain.
Together with Sinch, we launch the non-profit initiative Vlna pomoci and simultaneously finish long-term construction work at the Marriott Hotel. In June, culture slowly begins to pick up – part of the crew heads out on tour with Czech bands, and several summer festivals take place in more intimate formats.
In July, the slow start turns into a brutal sprint. To keep up with the rocket growth of events, we improve our training, the rating qualifications return, and we implement a new payroll system.
n 2023, we continue the rollercoaster ride.
We are not underestimating the preparations again - we are coming up with a giant training project called SKILL FACTORY, thanks to which we train hundreds of information-hungry newcomers in the Křižík Pavilions. Not only do we cover the majority of events in the Czech Republic during the year, but we also work on more than eight hundred shifts abroad (e.g. Superbloom and Heroes in Germany, Lovestream in Slovakia, medical conferences all over Europe and more). Other achievements in 2023 include the opening of a new Shameless office in Pilsen. This year we handled over an incredible 3200 events!
The year 2024 marks another expansion of Shameless, this time to the east.
Before the main season, we are opening a new branch for Hradec Králové and its surroundings. Once again we are growing in volume of work, but also in manpower - the Prague office alone handles over 3,300 events and over 46,000 jobs. During the summer season we are building a record 53 festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad and over 156 events in halls across the year. We represent Shameless for the first time at Berlin's Future of Festivals international trade fair, from where we leave with the prospect of further opportunities to break into the far corners of Europe. The bureaucratic changes under the new DPP regulations won't spoil the smile on our faces either. Throughout the year we have regular training sessions in Prague, Pilsen and Hradec Kralove, not only for newcomers, but also for individual technical professions for those of us who want to move up as riggers, lighting technicians or crew bosses.
The first really post-covid year marks a big start from almost zero to a hundred.
We are facing the necessity of renewing the whole crew, based on our hard core workers, who has remained with us despite the difficulties of previous years. We are launching the Superhero Campaign, looking for heroes to help us get the culture back on its feet. Preparing for the summer season is paying off - the 2022 season shaped up to be the biggest yet. We're running over 2,700 events on record, including traditional and brand new events. We are changing our location and moving our office from Výstaviště to Švábky in Karlín.