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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...
...and Larmer Tree were on the same weekend. It seems our call to invite a friend in the last email was heard as almost everyone I’ve spoken to either in person or via email has heard about Planet Angel through a friend. We’re receiving the highest mailing list signup rate ever! The comments suggest these are truly like-minded people who really get what we’re about which is really great. We love working with the venue, they’re positive, supportive and are always offering useful input to help us achieve our goals… complete opposite of the venue we worked with before!
Pete & I are now looking to create a new & more responsible Production Manager role as part of Planet Angel’s move towards less reliance on us and more general sharing of responsibilities. This new role will assume full responsibility for the rig and derig and we’re looking for two people to share the role so that they can have regular parties off, more on that once we’ve spec’d the role out.
Also Keni has been over for a meeting to show us an idea he has for putting the door lists on mobile wireless PDA devices, which may then allow for the shop stock take and other useful stuff to be added which is an exciting project we hope to see develop… thanks Keni! If it pans out as planned, Planet Angel will be at the forefront of a new technical development that could be of great value to event organisers all over, cool!
*Chilled*
We’ve been calling around all the venue leads we’ve been sent, and last week checked out a University, which has strong potential as a *Chilled* venue… it has several different areas, room for a proper stage for live acts, lots of furniture an outside area etc… it would be an expansion of the previous chilled formula and there’s a lot of stuff to work out to see if it’s viable but it‘s the most suitable venue we’ve seen so far so fingers crossed!
Productions
We’ve submitted an event proposal for the HCI Conference which has been signed off, they’re really happy with our ideas so now we get on with the fun bit of making it happen! Putting all our experience to use in such a fun and different setting is great; we’re really looking forward to this!
Shop
Sam is getting more and more involved in running the Shop, constantly developing the presentation of the stall at the party, sourcing & ordering new items and hopefully adding new things to the online shop too – this is really helpful and one of those things we couldn’t find the time for, thanks Sam!
We’re looking to design a new Planet Angel T-Shirt over the next few months too… anyone?
Planet Angel CD Compilation
We’re aiming to release a double CD/ DVD with photos & footage of the party for sale at the Party and as a free downloadable file under the creative commons licence… We reckon it will be a first… The objective is to promote the talented musicians involved with Planet Angel and provide party people with something they want… Tom has led this project forward; it wouldn’t be where it is now without his input, huge thanks to him.
Finances
We’ve both found extra work which whilst means while there’s less time to spend on Planet Angel we’re not as distracted by financial concerns, a swings and roundabouts situation…!
Planet Angel Rocks
This is a really exciting idea for a daytime live-band based event, we’re still finalising a date but then we’ll get on with booking the date & contacting live acts to play… we aim to put on a well-promoted event dedicated to live acts & producers, to promote them within the network, both publicly and within the industry.
Rob has agreed to schedule the bands, which will probably play 30 minute slots 30 minutes apart throughout the day and Eddie’s going to try to sort out a webcast which would be excellent!
Website Project
Ali and Graham are still on this (thanks guys!) tying up loose ends and working out a plan to finish the extra modules we hope to add to the site, particularly interactive modules like a forum… which would be very cool.
Random stuff
We’re finalising the 2005 accounts & directors reports for submission to companies house right now, then we’ll move onto 2006, Graham is working on changing our email & Web servers over (thanks Graham and thanks Rolo for hosting us & all your help to this point xxx), and we’re working on the next quarterly postcard to send out to the postal list which is much easier as we only have to design it and then stick a stamp and address label on the front of each one… even though there’s hundreds of them!
There you go, there’s more but that’s the highlights for now! |
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