Thursday, July 27, 2006
We have lift off
Fringe Festival Press launch was last night, it seemed to go quite well. We didn't get as many press as we hoped but the Evening Post and BBC Berkshire made appearances. 107 fm couldn't make it so Kevin Harrington pre-recorded some soundbytes and The Chronicle didn't have anyone to send but are going to be very supportive again.
It was a very odd evening, I arrived at South Street where the launch was happening hot (and sweaty) from work. For the first time ever, turned right and headed towards their small room. What an undiscovered (by me) gem that place is! By the time I got there, it was all darkened and lit nicely, there were candles on the table and a small PA set up for the little speech and Damien A Passmore (another undiscovered gem) to play a few songs. It's a really nice space although it was very warm last night. Would be perfect for a little acoustic night or something.
Mainly it was a chance to meet some press, some of the promoters and venue people who live locally and have a chant about what we do. Hmm. I mean chat, not chant. Nice typo maybe we should have chanted, that would have been a story!
After that a few of the Fringe people went to The Retreat (yes another undiscovered gem, a proper pub close to the centre of Reading!) for a few beers. I introduced Ben Halls, the fringe live music guy, to the joys of pickled eggs. Now, in a pub situation a pickled egg really ought to come served in a packet of Salt and Vinegar crisps but The Retreat has a fine selection of really nice (if a bit hippy) vegetable crisps so we departed from the norm and tried those. The Tyrell's Sausage and Mustard flavour that Ben had were particularly awesome. They genuinely tasted like sausage and english mustard! How rare. Nearly forgot to mention, whilst we were in there we saw one of Josaka's most notorious reviewers (before he stopped) David Miller and Barney the former guitarist from the legendary Caged Baby. It really must be a cool place!
This morning we find out that one of the Screwball bands, Somebody's Mind, have split up and cancelled on us. Typical! The day after the bloody press launch.
It was a very odd evening, I arrived at South Street where the launch was happening hot (and sweaty) from work. For the first time ever, turned right and headed towards their small room. What an undiscovered (by me) gem that place is! By the time I got there, it was all darkened and lit nicely, there were candles on the table and a small PA set up for the little speech and Damien A Passmore (another undiscovered gem) to play a few songs. It's a really nice space although it was very warm last night. Would be perfect for a little acoustic night or something.
Mainly it was a chance to meet some press, some of the promoters and venue people who live locally and have a chant about what we do. Hmm. I mean chat, not chant. Nice typo maybe we should have chanted, that would have been a story!
After that a few of the Fringe people went to The Retreat (yes another undiscovered gem, a proper pub close to the centre of Reading!) for a few beers. I introduced Ben Halls, the fringe live music guy, to the joys of pickled eggs. Now, in a pub situation a pickled egg really ought to come served in a packet of Salt and Vinegar crisps but The Retreat has a fine selection of really nice (if a bit hippy) vegetable crisps so we departed from the norm and tried those. The Tyrell's Sausage and Mustard flavour that Ben had were particularly awesome. They genuinely tasted like sausage and english mustard! How rare. Nearly forgot to mention, whilst we were in there we saw one of Josaka's most notorious reviewers (before he stopped) David Miller and Barney the former guitarist from the legendary Caged Baby. It really must be a cool place!
This morning we find out that one of the Screwball bands, Somebody's Mind, have split up and cancelled on us. Typical! The day after the bloody press launch.
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the small room at south street used top be a "pub" called macdevitt's. we used to do acoustic gigs in there (three litre/headcopter and the big wednesday (my mate nathan's band from woking, not the band that stedman loves) on saturday nights. as the pub would otherwise had been empty then the gigs had vibes of a private party. good guinness too.
funny to think of the caged baby posse frequenting the retreat!
Graham.
ps. good luck with finding a band for cabaret III.
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funny to think of the caged baby posse frequenting the retreat!
Graham.
ps. good luck with finding a band for cabaret III.
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