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Obvious reasons for suggesting that we support a charity in the holding of this event. It means that some good will come of the event, as well as being a great day.
It also means that we get ready-made backing and a degree of sponsorship, and increases the likelihood of celebrities endorsing what we are doing.
I have proposed Cancer Research for a number of reasons, we all know people whose lives have been affected by cancer. Please give this suggestion (and this event) your support.
it's a good plan. but how do you see this being done? Should we put a donation surcharge on admission, or do we go the whole hog, and when all's done and dusted, pay the creditors and donate the rest?
Bit of a can of worms really...i mean celebs, sponsorship? I wanna get shitefaced and talk to all you cunts. you really wanna go the whole way on this one then?
I dunno, this is SNSS paranoia....the events we put real effort into are the ones that fall right on their ass every time, the lash-ups always work out. Essentially, this is our party, if we can chuck a few quid to something more useful than the brewery, more the better. My concern is that if we overscale the thing, and overdo the costs, there's a chance we'll be chargin ourselves stupid money, and a nasty chance it could go well and truly tits up.
we organized a pissup for the college music dept a few times and basically got drunk on stage with our instruments. we charged people a quid each in to cover the 50 bills the place had cost us. When the 50 quid was achieved, we told the guy on the door to charge what he liked...we made 120 quid, which got split between the 6 poor bastards who stayed behind to clear up. it's not a bad plan to take the piss when you've covered your ass :)
yes for Cancer btw....NO did their bit for our brother fan, we'll do ours.
oldmonkey wrote: Obvious reasons for suggesting that we support a charity in the holding of this event. It means that some good will come of the event, as well as being a great day.
It also means that we get ready-made backing and a degree of sponsorship, and increases the likelihood of celebrities endorsing what we are doing.
I have proposed Cancer Research for a number of reasons, we all know people whose lives have been affected by cancer. Please give this suggestion (and this event) your support.
Yes - to all!
Is NOOL hosting fees considered charity? 
Tim, contact me when you can, I believe I have something to say to you that might be appropriate ;)
Spotnick wrote: Is NOOL hosting fees considered charity?
Tim, contact me when you can, I believe I have something to say to you that might be appropriate ;)
Check that inbox!
Oh you get it all round here so you do. Music, laughter, sex, and even cloak and dagger shit :D
oldmonkey wrote: It takes us two hours to soundcheck, we ain't gonna want to do half a job on the event!
nice one, I'll push all the faders up, if you need me I'll be at the bar :)
What are you, the london symphony bloody orchestra. Might take you 2 hours to soundcheck with some inhouse guy, I'll have you off the stage in 10 mins :D
(hmmmm,, 2 hours soundchecks might be something to do with this business of constant noodling)
RIGHT THEN, WHO WANTS TO START FIGHTING ABOUT RUNNING ORDER
2 hour soundchecks have more to do with us on occasion forgetting to plug the keyboards in! Tends to fuck up the sequencer tracks a bit 
Steve Campbell wrote:
RIGHT THEN, WHO WANTS TO START FIGHTING ABOUT RUNNING ORDER
Running order? Simple.
1st band (Re: Order?) 2nd band (Digital's JD set?) 3rd band (Jack's band?) 4th band (Flight?) 2nd set by 2nd band (Digital's NO set) 2nd set by 1st band (Re: Order to send everyone home happy)
DJ sets in between, plus half hour karaoke slot using some of our sequencer tracks for the brave/pissed.
oldmonkey wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote:
RIGHT THEN, WHO WANTS TO START FIGHTING ABOUT RUNNING ORDER
Running order? Simple.
1st band (Re: Order?) 2nd band (Digital's JD set?) 3rd band (Jack's band?) 4th band (Flight?) 2nd set by 2nd band (Digital's NO set) 2nd set by 1st band (Re: Order to send everyone home happy)
DJ sets in between, plus half hour karaoke slot using some of our sequencer tracks for the brave/pissed.
Don't take all the fun out of it fucker !
Yeah, factor in SNSS as filler as well, I'll only have maybe 4 tunes worthy of doing, if I even bother....more likely I'll eat all my words and smoke a turd in hell and all that and just play/sing over ... a a a. i can't even say it
Last 2 or 3 live tunes should be the NOOL allstars. but the thought of scrapping out who gets to play bass...jeeeeez.....26 singers is cool, tho.
It takes us about 5 mins to soundcheck - in other words turn on tune up and play half a song!
We're happy to go on whenever you want us 
LOL...from primadonas to plebs, I'm gonna have a fun day :)
trust me, all of you, no matter how well, or how badly behaved y'all think you are, I've seen better and worse :)
TBH, every gig I did IN college was so horrendous that by the time I got outta there, I started thinking that 4 bands in a night was a gentle gig.
And as for earning real money, slumped over a mixer with a big drink and some complimentary pizza or whatever, doind sound for ONE band who knew what they were doing....ha that made me feel like a theif.
Any time SNSS actually soundcheck, it ends up being a 90 minute jam, that's invariably better than the set will be later, fortunately with doing so many gigs in clubs, and DJ's being such utter igoranti of any source that doesn't spin round, our usuasl soundcheck is some git givin us the thumb to show he's got something on our channel. Hardly important when the mixer's on stage mind you.
We are actually one of the more organised bands you will see, with a setlist for the sound man that includes what needs to be faded up and when, a full stage plan, everything that I always wished for as a sound man when I was starting out!
marry me :)
AND, if I say things like "can you check the groundlift on that DI", you wont grunt and stare blankly at me.
oldmonkey wrote: Obvious reasons for suggesting that we support a charity in the holding of this event. It means that some good will come of the event, as well as being a great day.
It also means that we get ready-made backing and a degree of sponsorship, and increases the likelihood of celebrities endorsing what we are doing.
I have proposed Cancer Research for a number of reasons, we all know people whose lives have been affected by cancer. Please give this suggestion (and this event) your support.
Just a quick post...I have found out today that a relative has cancer, so any support for Cancer Research would be a great help.
BIGINOIL wrote: Oh dear, that's not good news.
Hope everything is okay, Sam.
Cheers Colin. I'm trying to act 'normal' (if I ever have done!) just to take my mind off it a while, but I really feel like kicking the shit out of something at the moment. I'm so fucking angry. It's a fucking shitty disease and the sooner someone finds a cure for it, the better.
oldmonkey wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote:
RIGHT THEN, WHO WANTS TO START FIGHTING ABOUT RUNNING ORDER
Running order? Simple.
1st band (Re: Order?) 2nd band (Digital's JD set?) 3rd band (Jack's band?) 4th band (Flight?) 2nd set by 2nd band (Digital's NO set) 2nd set by 1st band (Re: Order to send everyone home happy)
DJ sets in between, plus half hour karaoke slot using some of our sequencer tracks for the brave/pissed.
What happened to the Karaoke set? 
Spotnick wrote:
oldmonkey wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote:
RIGHT THEN, WHO WANTS TO START FIGHTING ABOUT RUNNING ORDER
Running order? Simple.
1st band (Re: Order?) 2nd band (Digital's JD set?) 3rd band (Jack's band?) 4th band (Flight?) 2nd set by 2nd band (Digital's NO set) 2nd set by 1st band (Re: Order to send everyone home happy)
DJ sets in between, plus half hour karaoke slot using some of our sequencer tracks for the brave/pissed.
What happened to the Karaoke set?
the karaoke and disco are what might be called "running order irrelevent". They wont pose any kind of a challenge, and can be done between bands.
Anyone who thinks that karaoke is a good idea should listen to Mike's Apollo cd.
Anyone with EARS would then agree it's a GREAT idea!
All together now...
Dur der der derrr dur der der derr dur der der derr der derrr!
boom bash boom bash
Oh..I thought we were doing the full accapella AoC :(
I bet you a tenner, that after they hear a band come off that stage that not one fucker will want to do karaoke. they'll think they'll be going out at the same volume....and in fairnes,, if they were DiggyMike, or any of the apollo male voice choir, they'd be right.
Anyone else, I think you'll find your efforts will NOT be inflicted on all and sundry at the same sound pressure levels as those fookers what can play.
The "plan" would be to get as many well voiced and mixed recordings of the MIDI's to use as backing. And apply a little light pitch correction and a touch of a delicate vocal plate verb. The "reality" will be me batch processing New Order's back catalogue through one of those midrange phase inversion deals[1] a week before the gig. hmmmm there's a thought, I wonder if those things will work at all on stuff from mp3 (anyone know if mp3 encodes L+R or M+S?), they be pish at the best of times. And bunging the mic through antares auto tune set to "cher" and a fookin Lexicon Multifx set to "sinead O'connor" (so much delay and verb you can't perceive what note's being sung long enough to decide if it's out of tune :) )
[1] upi have a tape deck with "karaoke" function? same thing with controls. They are no better at actually getting rid of vocals, but they do leave SOME of the track alone.
Spotnick wrote:
oldmonkey wrote:
Steve Campbell wrote:
RIGHT THEN, WHO WANTS TO START FIGHTING ABOUT RUNNING ORDER
Running order? Simple.
1st band (Re: Order?) 2nd band (Digital's JD set?) 3rd band (Jack's band?) 4th band (Flight?) 2nd set by 2nd band (Digital's NO set) 2nd set by 1st band (Re: Order to send everyone home happy)
DJ sets in between, plus half hour karaoke slot using some of our sequencer tracks for the brave/pissed.
What happened to the Karaoke set?
It's listed there as Re: Order
You could do it for charity... I would say do it 50% for NOOL's operation and 50% for some other charity...
craig's digitalwaters wrote: You could do it for charity... I would say do it 50% for NOOL's operation and 50% for some other charity...
50% to go to the running costs of NOOL? Nope. NOOL has its own funding streams, shall we say. This event will only happen on the scale we want it to if it is done for charitable causes. It has never been thought of as an event to raise running costs for NOOL.
If NOOL is financially stable then it's COOL!
and mucho respect to you for driving this forward.
