[Event Chat] Green Mind & The Junction present WISH YOU WERE HERE - 25/09/10

Not knowing Cambridge too well could somebody advise me on the following please.

How long does it take to walk between
Portland Arms and the Haymakers
Haymakers and ARU
Portland Arms and ARU

There's loads I want to see on early and late at Wish You Were Here but nothing around the middle of the evening so planning to go and watch This Town Needs Guns and Oceansize at the ARU as well. Does this sound doable even if it is bloody stupid?

And any idea how much those pedi-cab things are between the Portland and Haymakers?
Cheers

(Stupid link to google maps doesn't work)

Google maps says it takes 13 minutes to walk from The Portland to the Haymakers. I'd say it was more like ten.

Ten?
Am confused!

ARU to the Porland is about a mile.

Much appreciated - never used google maps before.
Ten minutes - great job.
Looks like its a goer but a bloody expensive day.

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The nifty little Cambridge walk it guide says it's 12 mins from the Portland to Haymakers and about 20 from the porty to ARU...

http://walkit.com/walk/?city=cambridge&from=CB4+3BA&fuid=700057_334982...

You'll miss pulled apart by horses if you see the tedious mancs in the echo chamber ;-)

You'll miss pulled apart by horses if you see the tedious mancs in the echo chamber ;-)

True sb but not really into the couple of bands before them and guess it will be rammed for them.
Certainly going to give it a go I think.

BOAT HOUSE

4.30 - 5 THE RIGBYS
5.30 - 6 DAVE IRVING
6.30 - 7 STEVE BRADSHAW
7.30 - 8 PAUL GOODWIN
8.30 - 9 KARMADILLO
9.30 - 10 JAMES PAGE
10.30 - 11.15 ALESSI'S ARK

PORTLAND ARMS

4.00 - 4.30 CAVALIER
5.00 - 5.30 THE GREAT MISTAKES
6.00 - 6.30 TOM CONWAY
7.00 - 7.30 WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA
8 - 8.30 UNIT 9
9 - 9.30 BRUTE CHORUS
10 - 10.45 PULLED APART BY HORSES

HAYMAKERS

4.30 - 5 KELVOX 1
5.30 - 6 SAD DAY FOR PUPPETS
6.30 - 7 LITTLE DEATH
7.30 - 8 THOMAS TANTRUM
8.30 - 9 SOUND OF GUNS
9.30 - 10 VERSUS THE CIRCUS
10.30 - 11.15 LONELY THE BRAVE
11.45 - 12.15 ENVY
12.45 - 1.15 VICTORIA AND JACOB

CORNERHOUSE

8 - 8.20 NARCISSISTS
8.35 - 9.05 BEVERLEY KILLS
9.20 - 9.50 ETHICAL DEBATING SOCIETY
10.05 -10.35 DEATH OF THE ELEPHANT
10.45 - 11.15 GLORY GLORY

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what happened to cate le bon?

The pedo-cabs sound like a good idea.

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oh yeah! the poster says junction and green mind present, yet there's nothing at the junction!

Oops, the Junction have Megson and Sam Carter.

Oh, and The Junction and Green Mind are putting on Frank Turner at the Corn Exchange. The Junction often does stuff outside.

Booboo, Yo Yo Yo have split up.

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I didn't know that either.

Hope i've not just outed them...

Christ on a bike! Really?

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Because it's not a memorial. It's just a name of a festival.

'inner fractures' eh? Sounds like a dyer situation.

To clarify, The Fort St. George was going to be doing more, but due to changes in management it's now more of a chillout area with appropriate tunes being played and a barbecue.

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Yep. Out of our control unfortunately. Themed tuneage will be the order of the day though.

Could the Grove pub step up to the plate? ;-]

Yo yo yo spliting is the shitest news i heard today :o(

Yeah, it's a bugger.

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Who's looking forward to tomorrow? I am.

I'm on wristband patrol. I will be wearing a high-viz tunic so you know I'm in charge. That's right, isn't it SB__?

I dearly wish I could come to this and see all your lovely faces.

my face looks like this>

Wowee. Can you send me some sexy photos?

isn't that one enough? i wouldn't want you to burst your dam over me.

*tries to come up with a sexy dam joke*

*fails, goes home*

Hang on, hang on, something about a finger in a dike?

I think you'll find it's dyke.

*taps nails impatiently*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyke_%28construction%29#Dike

Lots of dikes in Holland, so I've heard.

Ever had someone exploded a fake boob stress toy in your car at 1am at 80mph......nope me neither till last night

thats the kinda way Unit nine roll.......come tonight to see more....

Amazing night , Well done SB and crew ...amazing.

I had a lovely time (wo)manning the door until an incident kicked off and the contents of a glass got thrown and i jumped in to get the blokes out of the gig room (two of which were fucking coppers!!!!!! (i feel like i need those extra exclamation marks)).

Crikey, well handled BB! Hope nobody got hurt.

Yes, a great night all told. Alessi's Ark and The Wilderness of Manitoba were my favourite new finds of the day. Disco dancing to the disc jockey skills of DJ Ohmygod and Special Guest Janeyferr topped it all off nicely.

Ark: http://www.myspace.com/alessisark
Wilderness: http://vimeo.com/11054990
Ferr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/janeyferr/130301936/

Lonely The Brave were incredible last night. Haymaker's sound (and beer - what they had left - they ran dry pretty much) has improved a great deal. Only other band I saw were Unit 9 who hurt my ears... blasted out the cobwebs. Missed bands due to too many friends, not enough interest and the inability to pay attention. Seemed to work well as a whole... had to cab it back from Haymakers as we were too drunk, too bloody cold and too far away from home.

I don't think they did mattstep but after Hayley stepped in and dealt with it, I went into meltdown - too close was it to my previous experience of violence in a pub. Put a real downer on the night for me :(

but if that hadn't happened, it would've been a bloody brilliant afternoon/evening for me. Plus, there were some very attractive men for me to appreciate going in and out of the room :)

Yep, lovely day, bands had a really good time, punters mostly lovely and everyone's happy. Job's a good 'un.

I'm out of bed!

I think Special Guest DJ has just gone for another vomit.

I stayed at one venue but it was good. I also had a little bit of a hangover today too since last night was the first time I have drank (other than the odd single quiet pint) for about two months. I had three pints and couldn't finish the third because I felt too drunk. Amazing how quickly tolerance goes innit?

Pulled Apart by Horses as good as ever I assume?

a bit screamy.

Compared to U9 how screamy? lol

pabh were awesome.

Glad to hear, sorry I couldn't make it

they were screamy, whereas you were shouty :)

http://soundcloud.com/dj-ohmygod/wilderness-of-manitoba

A superb job - congratulations all round.

BB - think I can guess who these individuals were as I watched a group of guys (who I've never ever seen at a Cambridge gig) make the most disgusting comments continually about one young female performer at the haymakers before making their way to the Portland. Not my usual experience of Cambridge gigs.

Wilderness of Manitoba and Sad Day For Puppets were both excellent as were Oceansize who I also went to see at the ARU. Gutted Victoria and Jacob were on early as I arrived at twelve twenty and they were just finishing.

Bring on next year but it will have a lot to live up to by all accounts.

Sorry about Vic & Jacob, but Envy never showed up and we took the decision to put them on early. Possibly not the right call, but we've got things we'll try and improve for next year.

SB definitely the right call as the Haymakers (I think) were the only venue still operating live music and at that time of night I think nearly everybody who wanted to see them would have already been in the venue. I guess somebody hadn't showed so no worries (just make sure they come back soon!).

I was late due to Serious Promotion Clowns who advised me doors to Oceansize were at seven etc on my e-ticket but on printed tickets it apparently said 8. Then when they'd finally opened the doors we were held in a 'holding bay' until about quarter past nine. First support band didn't come until half nine. Now if I'd known that seven was indeed eight and first band wouldn't be on till half nine etc I'd have caught a bit more of Wish You Were Here. However Oceansize were awesome and the sound wasn't too bad...

Opened late? That used to happen all the time when we did gigs there because of sound problems. Interesting this sort of thing still happens.

Sound guys certainly seemed a little stressed and I don't believe either support band got much of a chance to soundcheck. Seems like fault maybe be shared between promoters and venue in this case.

Useful to know this sort of thing. Obviously we're looking at ways of expanding Wish You Were Here for next year, so it's good to know about other venues.

Now how about Legends (or is it called something else now?) Greenmind are still responsible for one of my favourite ever gigs - Unicorns (and Decemberists) at Legends in 2004 (I think)

There was four of them whiffin, and one of them was massive - over 6ft6 i would say. Does this sound like them?

Legends is a good idea actually. I remember that Unicorns gig. It was about the only date on the tour where they didn't all fall out. Oh yeah and Green Mind is two words ;0)

BB - think so. Maybe sound like stereotyping but to me they just looked a little different from the normal gig crowd in the Portland (no offence to anyone but don't normally see 'smart' jumpers with collars etc in there). In my most generalising way I did kind of guess their occupation (god I should be on the sorpranos)

SB - sorry - I should know, I had that album years ago but haven't dug it out for ages.

Twas a cool night (i was working the Haymakers) but some constructive criticism if I may...

Wristbands should be available from all venues (even if there's an allocated amount (20 at each venue?) Door staff could then liaise (via phone) with a central person (The Portland) and let them know how many they have/ haven't sold. I turned away in between 20/ 25 people who didn't know they had to go to The Portland to get a wristband. They turned up to see a band and couldn't be let in. After telling them they need to go to The Portland, I didn't see a majority of these again (although that doesn't mean they didn't go to the Portland and then beyond...)

An allocation of cheaper tickets for people who only want to go to the gig at that venue? Again small numbers.

Guestlists. All guests had to go to the Portland. Even though they only came to see a band at the Hay. Several pissed off people then missed half a bands set to traipse a 30 minute round trip to be allowed in

Programmes. The very scarce programme could of been shrunk down to a 1 sheet and handed out on the door.

How about some seminar type things next year earlier in the day? How to put on a gig? Designing posters, etc, etc...

All in all, a great event and I hope next year will be even better.

BTW, totally the right choice to bring Victoria and Jacob forward. You can't have that many people in a venue with low booze stock and not have any acts for over an hour.

We will continue with the central ticketing, as every other event of this nature works in the same way and it simplifies things massively. As for the cheaper tickets for just one venue, we simply can't. Most venues were budgeted on £12 sales and charging say, £6, wouldn't have covered expenses. It's something people will get used to as the event goes on. Also I would add that plenty of promoters have charged £10 for single venue all dayers.

That said, for guests that is something we'll change, as I agree that was something we could have done better and doesn't have the same problems associated with it as we would with tickets.

There were 400 programmes printed out, so everyone should have had one. If they weren't all receiving one then obviously we need to find out why.

I was ill on Saturday (never felt that shit, in fact) so couldn't make it, but sounded awesome from the reports I got from the BooBoo. Gutted I missed it but by the sounds of things it will be on next year too, excellent!

Yep, it's definitely on for next year.

Wheeyy! Are you looking at around the same time of year?

Reckon so. There's no other festivals to compete with and it's just before the gig season kicks off properly.

It's definitely a good time to have it, I think :) Could coincide with the stooodents coming back too - do they attend local gigs much?

As someone playing the Boat House, I think that was one of the warmest audience responses I've ever had, and it looked like Paul Goodwin who came on after Karmadillo felt equally humbled by the crowd response. I didn't get round too much owing to my buggered knee, but Lonely The Brave really stood out at the Haymakers.

Thanks to all involved - and a special shoutout to hairyarsenal for organising my wristband and taxis & the suchlike for an invalid. Even let him carry my charango!

I didn't manage to get to the Boathouse, but I heard excellent reports from those that did.

SB, something to be aware off but none of those 400 programmes were at The Hay, which is why I mentioned it.

Didn't mean to be negative with my comments but thought I'd throw in some observations to see if they helped for next year.

Ace time though.

The programmes were available when people collected their wristbands.

P.S comments taken the way you intended :)

Ill just say again how much we (Unit nine) enjoyed the gig , we were a little worried we might clear the venue, but to look up two songs in to see so many faces made me very very happy as apart from a few they were all new people. really restored my faith in cambridge as a mixing pot of music. everyone we dealt with on the day was nice and easy to get what we needed sorted.

*they were screamy, whereas you were shouty :)*

BB thank you for that , for some reason it made me smile. :o)

of and whiffin *Serious Promotion Clowns* im liking this discription and may have to borrow it :o)

I have a Eunuch 9 recording. I'll stick it on Soundcloud and send you a link so you can have a listen.

You're like the bootleg king now :)

Cheers DJOmg...... what did you use to record it ?

Zoom H4n.

fisher price Handy Recorder ;)

Nice review of the day from Moving Tone:

http://www.movingtone.com/reviews/patrick-widdess-reports-wish-you-wer...

Bravo !

Also: http://keepitlikeasecretblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/festival-review-wish...

Great inaugural festival, here's to many more. The Wilderness of Manitoba and Pulled Apart By Horses were simply fantastic.

I was thinking (DAH DAH DAAAAAAAAAAH), this event was sooo good, why not make it a biannual event?

BB thank you for that , for some reason it made me smile. :o)

Published by DeathProof Promotion at 1:56pm on Mon 27th September 2010.

It made me smile knowing I made you smile :)