The DJU M.A.X Show... Sun 6th Feb 2005

[ChrisPointon 0]

I'm happy to work with Gary arranging and publicising the event, I had already planned to do a bit of DJU PR in the form of advertising in national mags etc, so I could leave it a while and promote both on the same advert http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/smile.gif .

 

Anybody else who wants to help out with the nuts and bolts of things, feel free to step forward and make yourself known http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/smile.gif .

[BigBen 0]

Chris. I'll help in any way I can, PC and Internet work especially. I will also volunteer to drive on the day seeing as I'm tee-total.

[Gary 0]

QUOTE (BigBen @ Oct 1 2004, 12:29 PM)

I will also volunteer to drive on the day seeing as I'm tee-total.

You mean you only drink those little plastic golf ball stands which golfers use? http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

 

I'm going to be looking into the use of the primary venue which I had in mind, THIS WEEKEND !!! http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/071.gif

 

I'll let you know how that goes...

[BigBen 0]

You mean you're off to Spearmint Rhino?

[High Fidelity 0]

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I will also volunteer to drive on the day seeing as I'm tee-total.

I knew he was a nice man, a very very nice man. http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/thumbup.gif

Chris, I'll gladly help any way I can. You might have to remind everyday though what it is I'm supposed to be doing. http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/sleep1.gif

[mikeee 0]

Can I take this a stage further....

 

What if, we had a "Dinner / Dance" type affair in the evening, Jumbly say 1 to 5, then a D/D 7 to 11 / 12.

 

OK it's going to cost a little, the old TVDJA had a dinner last Feb, in Oxford and based on 200 people it panned out at £40 per head, but I'm sure a deal could be done somewhere a long the way.

 

[DJ Marky Marc 0]

when you say dinner dance do you mean curry and a night club or do you mean dressing up posh and bringing a date with you ?

[ChrisPointon 0]

@ £40 per head I would say that he meant a full Dinner Dance with black tie, Band or Disco and the full works. Either that or there is some Damned expensive Curry Houses in the Thames Valley area http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/scared.gif .

 

So far we have 21 'Yes I'm interested' as indicated on the poll above, so I reckon that would make it around £100 a head. Although I don't know whether the formal approach would be the way to go on this forum, it all depends on the age group who would be attending. As Marc as indicated the Curry and Nightclub may be more appealing to the majority, equally we may not get enough interest to do anything other than the DJU Jumble Sale that Gary is looking at.

 

As ever i'll leave it entirely up to debate http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/smile.gif , to gauge interest on the 3 ideas put forward:-

 

(i) Afternoon Jumble and Dinner Dance, with Black Tie as per Mikes Suggestion

(ii) Afternoon Jumble and Chippy / Curry and Nightclub / Pub as Marc Hinted

(iii) Just the Afternoon Arrangements as per Gary's original idea

[Gary 0]

Black tie? http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/bigstar.gif Dinner dance? http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/huh.gif

 

I'm not sure that I'll be able to look all nice'n'clean'n'tidy after lugging the old Disco gear around...

 

Hold on though - thats what we all do every weekend anyway isnt it...? http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/laugh.gif

 

My first line of thought upon readin gthe 3 options above was ... "I wanna go back to bed, Im still knackered from the weekend - and listening to undancable tracks til 3am..."...however, thats Monday mornings for you. http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/sleep1.gif

 

My next thought about the three options went two ways.

 

1) We should start things off small as far as this first DJU meet/bring/swap/buy etc goes. Make it too much of a commitment eg: Cost per head, on-top of travel plans, the duration (to "pencil in" in diaries etc) and some people wont be able to make it, whereas they might have made a simpler -turnup-setup-chatup( http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/huh.gif )-packup-travelbackup kinda do. If "United #1" takes off, then lets consider something more elaborate for "United #2" (The Sequel)

 

However, the follow on thought was:

 

2) Once its gone, its gone. If the first meet enables everyone to sell, swap or exchange their items of gear which they no longer need - by passing/selling them on to someone who does need them - then no-one will have much unwanted gear left to take to any subsequent event eg: "DJU #59" (gaw! Its just like NOW albums!) http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

[C.S 0]

can i wear my kilt ?

[BigBen 0]

I like the idea of making it something a little bit more than a jumble sale, but I am not keen for it to become a formal event finishing quite late on, I suspect, a Sunday night.

 

Having said that, I'll happily go with the flow.

 

Rich

[High Fidelity 0]

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(ii) Afternoon Jumble and Chippy / Curry and Nightclub / Pub as Marc Hinted

This would be my preferred choice.

 

Not even sure that the nightclub idea would appeal to a lot of people either, especially as we might have some younger members attending. I for one am not a nightclub person.

 

For me personally, the more relaxed the better. A room in a pub or somewhere, where we could get a drink if we wanted, play some music, have a good old chinwag and where the younger ones would not be left out.

 

But as Richard says, I'll go with the flow.

[ChrisPointon 0]

My thoughts are that the Dinner / Dance is more of a Masonic Lodge / Formal type of event, and with our members being mainly under 35 would it appeal to them?. My own thoughts are that I spend most of my Saturdays wearing a Tie or Black Tie so I prefer to dress casually in my free time / socialising.

 

I am happy to go with what the Majority decide, but also bearing in mind that Sunday Night may mean school / work the next morning for those who don't DJ full time then any late running Evening event may be a non starter from the word go, then there is the Journey home / overnight accomodation to consider.

 

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For me personally, the more relaxed the better. A room in a pub or somewhere, where we could get a drink if we wanted, play some music, have a good old chinwag and where the younger ones would not be left out

 

Agreed, and Lets not get ahead of ourselves because we haven't really got the committment for the Afternoon Event yet, let alone booking 200 seats, entertainment and a sit down meal! http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/whistling.gif .

 

Lets arrange the Cheap bit first http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/smile.gif , ie venue, date and time for the Afternoon bit first, before deciding on any after hours activities, but certainly a pub meet may be more family friendly.

[YourBigEvent 0]

I would prefer a 'jumble sale' from say 1pm to 5pm, then those you wanted to could meet up again at the local pub/restuarant/curry house and have a meal, a bit like we did in Blackpool.

It won't matter then how many people drop out, as some may have work early the next day, some will need picking up and won't be able to make the evening too late either, so then if we had 45 people say yes to the meal, as we hadn't booked anything we could turn up at the local eatingg house with 10/20 numbers down and it wouldn't matter, we could still get a decent discount booking 20 covers on a Sunday evening

 

Count me in

[BigBen 0]

A jumble sale where we could get a decent bit of kit for a bargain price sounds great. As does meeting up with fellow members over a drink or curry. But it's early on a cold, wet Sunday morning. There's a two hour drive ahead and the bed is so warm and cosy...

 

I reckon the best intentions of most members who agree in principle to turn up would be put to the test on the actual day. I think we need an incentive to get us on the road, to break the ice between members and give us something to talk about afterwards.

 

What about starting the day with some sort of activity? Quad bikes, tank driving, falconry, archery, shooting, etc. I expect a group rate booking in February would be quite reasonable - I'd be happy to pay up to £50 if we were doing something exciting. Plus, having paid in advance, it would get people out of their beds nice 'n' early and guaranteed to turn up.

 

What do you guys 'n' gals think?

[DJ Marky Marc 0]

Im not sure anything that involves physical activity and breaking into a sweat would be such a good idea.....

 

plus if there was a major quad bike acident there would be a lot of people with out DJ's the following week and no one to cover the bookings. http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/wacko.gif

[BigBen 0]

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if there was a major quad bike acident there would be a lot of people with out DJ's the following week and no one to cover the bookings.

 

Damn and blast! You've spotted my plan to take over the UK DJ market!! http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/9.gif

 

 

Knowing that there would be interest from a mixed group - ages, abilities, sexes - I added falconry, as an example. There's loads of possibilities and it was just a thought to make the day more attractive to those in two minds.

 

I'll get me coat...

[brianmole 0]

I've had my fill of trying to arrange complex events recently!!! But if there is anything I can do, I will happily help.

 

Keep it simple, afternoon audiojumble/lightfest, carry on in a pub after if possible! Somewhere south of Birmingham would be nice for me, but it's up to the majority. I can make SEDA aware, they might turn up if it is in Kent http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

 

Sounds like fun.

 

 

[cookiecat 0]

I would like to attend and as I would be travelling from Inverness I would go for the sale then a few beers/curry.

Why not just book a hotel funtion room for the whole day say 12-12 .

I am sure we could find someone to do a disco http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Also booking a hotel might get cheap rate rooms for any who will be staying the night after a few http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/beer.gif .

[ChrisPointon 0]

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I would like to attend and as I would be travelling from Inverness I would go for the sale then a few beers/curry

 

WoW, i'd better make my bargains really cheap then, if your travelling all that way http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/scared.gif , now thats what you call dedication.

 

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Why not just book a hotel funtion room for the whole day say 12-12

 

This is where the cost starts creeping up, at the moment we have around 26 members interested, okay thats a start, and not taking into account any PR activities or the building of a website, advertising etc that we are looking at doing. As it stands at the moment, we could possibly run this with 26 members based on a £4 admission charge and everybody would be happy, I can't see the hire of the room being much beyond £100 for a few hours.

 

But, if you start talking about entertainment, 12 hours of room hire, grub etc, then the costs start creeping up and of course everything has to balance. Next thing you know we will be looking at £20 a head, and people will lose interest http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/sad.gif . Everybody is happy to bag a bargain, but very soon any money saved on buying the equipment will be lost in the cost of attending and buying a ticket!.

 

Gary's idea was to keep it small and our feet firmly on the ground, and I suggest that until the poll shows over 100 interested individuals that we keep it that way http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/smile.gif .

 

I'm speaking from experience, from arranging the 'Great Northern Pub Crawl' where we had plenty of interest but on the day, about five actually turned up!, the Southern Pub Crawl was similar. Put this way, if we book a function room for a few hours and nobody turns up all we've lost is a few quid and some pride, however if we pull out the stops and spend a lot on this, and it goes T*ts up, somebody will be seriously out of pocket.

 

I suggest that we start with Gary's Jumble idea, and anything else which is arranged, subject to interest, we class as a bonus http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif .

[YourBigEvent 0]

Agreed with Chris, keep it simple, and if people want a curry after then book the curry house then.

 

I reckon a small hotel room, that does a decent meal in the evening would probably give us a room FOC on a Sunday afternoon, in the hope that we spend our cash in the bar/restuarant

[dfinn 0]

I would definately drop by if it was quite close but I dont think I would travel to the South for it.

 

My local community cnetre does the hall for the afternoon for about £60 and I recon would have space on the floor area for more than enough stalls and there is a back room and stage area if maraculously we run out of space.

 

I think that just a jumbe sale would be best as as said before on a sunday people have work / school and people would want to go home an have a rest if they have been gigging all weekend.

 

I would help if anyone wants to assign a role to me.

 

I think once we have decided an area for the sale we should have a post brainstorming all the things that would need doing eg website, advertising, finances, booking, organising hwo has what for sale, times, who gets what stall, etc etc.

 

then another post listing every role and then people could post asking for a role and then a final post telling who has what role.

 

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Daniel

 

 

 

 

[mikeee 0]

It doesn't have to be Black tie.

The reason for the suggustion was that it would have to be somewhere central, say Birmingham, people travel in from far and wide, the odds are drink will come into the eqaution somewhere (well we are DJ's).

 

So No driving, no expensive taxi's, everything "inhouse". Jumbly in the afternoon finish 5.00pm, pack up, go to room S.S.S. come down drink, eat, drink, dance, drink, to go bed.

 

I thought that was keeping it simple.

 

Also, if it were a "Hilton", type chain hotel, what better image, than a group of professional DJ's, in Black Tie, asking the "local lad" can you play??? Also as an employer rather than employee (for a change), we can ask the hotel to varify that the DJ has PAT & PLI (lol).

 

Just an idea......

[Gary 0]

Quick update: I didnt get to speak to the General Manager of the Venue which I have in mind for DJU #1, only one of the duty managers, who turned a funny shade of green when I said "DJ's" and a even wierder colour when I said "Jumble Sale".

 

However, I shall re-market the idea to the General manager asap, maybe even this weekend.

[paula 0]

http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/stupid.gif Cant you just borrow some poor old buggers field to hold it in!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andy's got a big garden! http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html/emoticons/tongue.gif