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 Post subject: threw my first party, and this is all i have to show for it.
PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:07 pm 
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i've somehow come into this position acting as a promotor for my area in glitch/dub. threw my first show last week, it was me, Savoy, and VibeSquaD. and this is the only pic i have from the entire night, hopefully some of the crew took some.


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How'd the show go down anyway?

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it went pretty well. could have used about 50 more people, but i'd call it a success overall. everybody had a blast, and that's all that really matters to me. next one in the works.


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it went pretty well. could have used about 50 more people, but i'd call it a success overall. everybody had a blast, and that's all that really matters to me. next one in the works.


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A big part of becomming a promoter is eating the cost of the first few marginally successful events. Keep doing it right and don't ever cut corners, eventually you will have a following of people who love to come to your events regardless of what the actual event is. It pays off in the long run, is all i'm sayin.

congrats on throwing your first party.


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Dewey dB wrote:
A big part of becomming a promoter is eating the cost of the first few marginally successful events. Keep doing it right and don't ever cut corners, eventually you will have a following of people who love to come to your events regardless of what the actual event is. It pays off in the long run, is all i'm sayin.

congrats on throwing your first party.


^ very true, especially for pioneering a non-established musical niche in your city. looks like it went pretty damn well. if you did better than break even on your first show then good fuckin work!

p.s. remember your boy Citrus when booking future shows ;) haha.

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I really did well on the Mimosa show in January. No cutting corners. Tons of extras (shit like live art, extra sound, 3d glasses and 3d visuals for them. Every artist got a proper soundcheck.) The show was rounded out as one of the best shows I've ever seen here in Victoria and I know that next time I throw down again, I'll still have the following.

Plus I really listen to my friends and their friends to see what they'd like to hear and what kind of show they like. It really helps for deciding on what I want to do. I'm sure your next show will slay all hell.

In the end, ended up making a few bucks and got to listen to some sick music. :joint:

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many thanks all! <3


appreciate the input you gave me from your mimosa show too john. wish we had as big a scene as you guys do on the left coast. but it's still super dope that i'm throwing shows at the best venue in our city. i'm also part of a weekly up in indianapolis (i play about every two or three weeks) which was on thursdays that just got moved to saturday, which is exciting. hopefully the midwest is starting to figure it out....


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Ive been in this game for a minute, and I can help........call me(pm me for my #)..........I can easily tell you how to make cash, fuck losing money, or even breaking even.

sometimes cutting corners is necessary, especially if those corners are not needed to make the show as hype as possible. I've watched so many crews lose their ass because they want to do EVERYTHING.

count on what matters, the music and the sound, everything else can fall by the wayside(for the most part) if you got those two on lock. But hey, that's just my opinion.

welcome to what can be a very hellish game, I hope the beginning goes easier for you than it did for me.

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yeah man, i'll have to get some notes from ya at some point.



aaron is the fucking coolest! all the guys in savoy were awesome as hell too. that really helped the evening. lots of good stories and a few good tips too.


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fuck yeah dude. i would love to get into this part of the game. very daunting task to take on and you did it... HEWN!


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Glad the show went off well man. :)

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Looks like a rager!

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De Novo Creation wrote:
i've somehow come into this position acting as a promotor for my area in glitch/dub. threw my first show last week, it was me, Savoy, and VibeSquaD. and this is the only pic i have from the entire night, hopefully some of the crew took some.


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you know im down to play whenever for whatever shows you got man. All my friends said it was dope, I recommended the bloomington show over the Kinetic one to them just because the homie de novo was throwing it.

geah.. get ready for Wuhnurth 1st ever electronica tent!


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I'm about to throw my first party at the end of March during WMC in Miami.
I'm really worried about it because never done anything like this and just want to make sure everything goes well and hope everyone I brought in has a good time and is taken care of.

Any tips besides have ppl take photos? haha

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I have yet to throw my first party, though I've taken part of assisting people in theres.

I'd like to try the good 'ol clip board with an email list to try and collect emails from attendees. In the future I can then promote directly to previous attendants and even offer up free promo tunes from the label. It could help retain followers to your events and productions.

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Dewey dB wrote:
A big part of becomming a promoter is eating the cost of the first few marginally successful events. Keep doing it right and don't ever cut corners, eventually you will have a following of people who love to come to your events regardless of what the actual event is. It pays off in the long run, is all i'm sayin.

congrats on throwing your first party.


everything that dewey said! I'm currently trying to put together something if the venue would respond to my emails.


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subJuce wrote:
you know im down to play whenever for whatever shows you got man. All my friends said it was dope, I recommended the bloomington show over the Kinetic one to them just because the homie de novo was throwing it.

geah.. get ready for Wuhnurth 1st ever electronica tent!




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i was looking into throwing a party at the kinetic actually, but i decided it'd be too much logistic type shit...much easier to throw a party 5 minutes from your place than 4 hours....

hope we both get up in the tent at wuhnurth, would be dope as shit! holla, i might be able to get ya into some of our weeklys for practice.


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congrats man, throwing parties is so much fucking fun.


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Dewey dB wrote:
De Novo Creation wrote:
it went pretty well. could have used about 50 more people, but i'd call it a success overall. everybody had a blast, and that's all that really matters to me. next one in the works.


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A big part of becomming a promoter is eating the cost of the first few marginally successful events. Keep doing it right and don't ever cut corners, eventually you will have a following of people who love to come to your events regardless of what the actual event is. It pays off in the long run, is all i'm sayin.

congrats on throwing your first party.


thats what we thought until some rival promoter called the fire marshall on our most successful party and destroyed our entire reserves


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