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It's been way too long since I posted a Planet Angel update...!

So, firstly, I'm currently working outside of Planet Angel 3 days a week.  This is because about a year ago Pete and I took a good hard look at things and although there are lots of exciting plans for the future we realised we'd need to boost Planet Angel's income before we could start the projects we had planned…

Well it’s been ages since I blogged, we’ve just been so busy! On top of Planet Angel I’m also working a couple of days a week in town and Pete is taking on the odd bit of contract work…

Hiya Guys,

There is SO MUCH going on I thought a bit of an overall roundup was in order… it’s exciting and busy at the moment!

The Party

We have focused almost exclusively on the Party since the venue move… publicity, improving the music, developing the décor, working on the crew scheduling … it really feels like it’s beginning to pay off, we had an unexpectedly quiet June party which hurt but July was fantastic – also a nice surprise considering the Glade...

Hi everyone, I don’t think I’ve blogged since before the June Party as we were straight off to the Sunrise Festival (after tying up the accounts.. boring). Well we’re back from a long week being debauched in a field somewhere in Somerset and feeling rejuvenated for the break!

The last party had a fantastic atmosphere, the new Thai BBQ in the garden worked really well and the treasure hunt was a hit too – Heather did a brilliant job in organising that one!  Sandy’s live Didge performance and Sean Taylor’s live guitar performance were great, although being our first live act in the new chill bar we have a bit of work to do regarding sound levels but it’s always a constant mission to improve and develop, it’s what we do…

We’re doing a Blog! 

And we’re actually quite nervous about it!! 

If you’ve ever wanted to know what it’s like running Planet Angel, here it is!  This Blog is an honest account of what happens behind the scenes.  You probably have a hunch that it’s not an easy life all about money or glamour, well here’s the proof!

Cor the last blog was the night before the May Party, wow that went quick…!! So what’s been happening? Well the week after the May Party was full of tying up the party stuff, accounts, paperwork etc and planning for me to be away for a week on my first holiday in several years, hooray! 

Well this party caught us by surprise!

No sooner had we tied up the last Party (see last blog for all the gory details!) than we were fast approaching the deadline for sending out the quarterly newsletter!  This is a bit of a process… people without email only hear from us every 3 months as it costs hundreds to do the post shot and takes three days to prepare it…  writing articles, laying out the newsletter, sending them off to print, and then the fun bit…

PHEW!!  Right, have wrapped up all the boring accounty bits from last week, had a nice weekend off and feeling less stressed this week :0)

Some interesting feedback on the Crew Forum, my replies are:

- the garden wasn’t closed early, the Funky Lounge doors were – due to sound complaints – but it was impossible to spread this message at the time, i.e. during the Party

- We will raise the cloakroom confusion at the start of the party with the venue, and get it sorted out for next time.

Someone brought up a point about letting people know that they can call on the crew at the Party. Over the six years we’ve been running we’ve occasionally had to send out a wave of ‘reminders’ because the new people may not be so aware that they can call on us for help.  We want people to feel comfortable and know that us crew are here for them; it’s tricky getting that message across though!

Launching the website at the weekend was amazing, it is almost all we’ve done for several weeks so kinda hard to see the wood for the trees, having stepping away from it for a day or two it’s a wonderful feeling to come back to it and see a complete ‘package’ as it were… almost six years of info. Re-organised & presented within about four weeks… not bad!