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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…

Imagine getting an A4 newsletter, folding it in half, putting it an envelope with a couple of invites, sealing the envelope, putting a stamp & address label on the front, & a return to sender label on the back… (Post office requirements).  Now imagine doing that hundreds and hundreds of times!  Still, it’s a good opportunity for Pete & I to chat about stuff we need to do, ideas we’ve got, things that have come in and listen to new DJ demos etc… we’re trying to strongly encourage as many people to switch to email as possible because it’s so much easier to contact them and they’re much more up to date too! It also saves money, post shots are expensive!

Then what… oh yeah, calling all Volunteers, Crew & Artists to confirm what’s, when’s where’s and how’s.  I (Angel) love chatting to everyone personally, it’s really great but I wish I’d given myself a bit longer this month as I have to start calling after 5.30pm work hours to get hold of most people and it got a bit close to the deadline this month…  there’s approx 50 calls to make which is loads, that’s why its great when people remember to call us! I guess I got too used to having 7 and 10 week breaks between parties while we moved venues, this 4 week break jumped up and bit me on the arse! 

The Maypole Happening this month has been organised from start to end by Kitty & I’m really impressed by how well she’s managed it as she’s left me very little to do on this and I reckon it must have involved some organisation!

Planetangel.co.uk [does productions for other organisations to generate a bit more income and opportunities for people] has another lead – it looks like the new venue want us to do out their garden terrace with white fabric, we’ve got some great ideas. The other. co.uk production job is going well too, [arranging a social event for the end of the British HCI Group exhibition in September] we’re working on ideas for content at the moment, activities, art, games & artists tailored to the theme of the event and it looks like it will generate some real opportunities for people… it’s exciting putting all the stuff we've learn't by six years of putting on events to good use in a different way, and it’s a verification of how we’ve progressed over the years from the wee green horns at Imperial gardens to what we all do today… onwards and upwards!!

Anyway I digress… what else… ahhh.. the orders!  Rifling through catalogues and building purchase orders for an assortment of random goodies such as UV Plasticene, ink pads, UV spiky silicone stuff for the shop, earplugs, tarpaulins, clear containers for the shop, tacs, clips, the fruit, the van… etc etc. Thankfully within budget this month although still counting, very pleased though that I *think* I’ve found a good company to deliver us some decent food during the rig for the production crew… so we can eat something proper like instead of reconstituted shite…  hooray!

There’s more but I’ve typed more than enough now, so far these blogs have just flowed from the end of my fingertips – you can probably tell by the bad grammar… while it’s flowing easily i thought I’d keep up the ‘insights’ into what goes on over here…   Although we’re both nervous we’d love to share what goes on behind the scenes with those who are interested so were going to take Grahams’ suggestion up and start a blog on the web site!  Ah!!

I’m really up for this party, we’ve worked on all the stuff raised from the last one and reckon we’ve addressed each issue pretty well… we may need to make a few adjustments but that’s always the way.

Really loving the new venue… it’s a pleasure to work with these guys, the whole vibe is just great… see you tomorrow lovelies!