sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Small ones really, its normally as wet hire, but we'd like to try and do something small somewhere and get a few other rigs involved...... we do our own local events, predominantly reggae, bassline/garage/juke/jungle/drum and bass and maybe some breakcore if the crowds feeling it
Most of the festivals we've done are hires though, and sometimes we give them a bit better rate for a few sets, we've done FSTVL (that was mainly house and we didn't get involved other than the rig/lights/lasers), we've done a local one to use called redfest aswell, which is predominantly a metal festival but has a token dance tent (think "my first festival" for local kids), we did get to play though. We've got a small charity one we do yearly too. Festivals are a hard one to break into, its all a very closed circle, and by and large a festival will require a lot more kit than we have currently, so they'll go direct to someone like F1. Apparently our rig was the one that was used for the bodyshop at boomtown a lot before we bought it. We were getting somewhere with boomtown for a little venue, but then an internal disagreement (our end, not theirs) ballsed it up. I've been thinking about trying another application for a mini boomtown venue, but on my own (well not totally solo, but not in a situation where too many cooks will spoil the broth).
Most of it is wet hire for nights though, we've done a lot of the house nights in portsmouth (I can't remember the name, I never do that one much), we've done a lot of the more recent erisian nights in brighton (breakcore nights). But we've just become an affiliated hire company for F1 in surrey, so we're getting more and more work now which is really good, its been 3/4 years of just breaking even by the time we've covered expenses such as storage, but we're finally saving up to replace the van we had that died a few years ago.
the Forest Spirit will be with you all..........if ever you feel lost call to her and she will answer
