Planet Angel - Live an Ordinary Life in an Extraordinary Way

Happy New Year!  We hope you had a great time over the festive season and wish you a happy and peaceful 2007. 

With a break from our monthly like-minded gathering this January, we find ourselves with a little more time on our hands for other important stuff, such as contemplating, planning and of course touching base with everyone, hence this 2006 roundup!

And what a year it was!

2006 started with an unscheduled venue move! Having discovered the loss of our venue on Christmas Eve 2005(!), we had to cancel The Party with no notice, and begin the difficult task of finding a new venue… It took a fair few months, and this was one of the most stressful and worrying times in our history, though the communication and comfort we received from people verified the reality of the like-minded network we’ve all been building over the years!

Then of course we found a new home at Hidden… The stress and worry turned into efficient planning and decision making as we designed new layouts, lighting and décor systems in super quick time ready to open the doors and nervously await the reaction to our new home. 

Our first Party at Hidden was very busy as people from all quarters came to see… Over the coming months we slowly settled into a groove and a year on we feel we’ve reaped many positive effects from working with a great venue… It didn’t seem like it at the time, but this cloud did have a silver lining!

Throughout 2006 we’ve worked hard to develop, improve and achieve…  The new website for example has completely transformed the way we can share information, photos, comments and feedback (and within the next few days, the first of many Videos!). The team that pulled off the website project received no financial return and dedicated many hours on top of full time jobs and hectic social lives… this kind of invaluable input is mirrored throughout Planet Angel - from the crew meeting and greeting at the door to the hosts spreading care and attention and so on… So many people put in much more than they have to.

Then in October, ‘Planet Angel ROCKS!’ offered experience and exposure for some excellent live bands and initiated our foray into providing good quality, ethical food which was really scary but had wonderful results!

And then of course the 2006 Grande Finale, the most unusual event we’ve hosted yet, and a chance to pull out all the stops and do something really different…  The Planet Angel New Year’s Eve Cruise!  …Planet Angel party people don’t half scrub up well :0) This was fun, beautiful and magical… everything we hoped it would be… more of the photos have now been uploaded and in the next few days, we’ll be posting up a short video blog about the event, starting off behind the scenes and going right through the evening!

2007… The year our dreams come true?

This year we’ll be building on everything that worked in 2006; offering new events - all with the same philosophy of like-minded people, great music, art and creativity – but with a different twist. We also hope to see the results of a lot of planning we’ve put in behind the scenes… we’ve learnt from experience it’s better not to bang on about things we want to do (“all talk and no trousers”), much better we think, to be actually doing things… and so with that in mind and being suitably cryptic, we hope to soon begin to unveil - bit by bit - the next steps in the dream...

At the heart of Planet Angel of course lies The Party… We consider this a celebration of what we’ve all achieved so far… a wonderful like-minded community, full of creativity, positive energy and projects all doing their bit to improve and develop at ground level.  Perhaps this year will create more connections, opportunities, friendships, projects and memorable moments than any year so far in our 6 year history!

We’ll be back full of energy at The Party in February, we’re planning a fantastic one for our Grande entrée into the year 2007! Expect an excellent DJ line up with several debut sets and... we’re really looking forward to the brilliant live act Serotonin christening the live stage in the Meltdown Room; this gig has been a long time coming! Remember if you can’t make it in person, you can always watch the live webcast!

So that’s it for now, feel free to use the guestbook or email party@planetangel.net to stay in contact and tell us what you’re doing!

Stay safe, xx Angel and Pete