HW: Private gig

[Chris Croughton]

Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>
> On fre 5 jun 1998 12.17 +0100 "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
> > I've just had email from someone regarding the possibility of running a
> > Hawkwind stream at an SF Con. I've invited this person to join the list
> > and talk to us. I'd say this sounds like a promising possibility and
> > that with some work from us, it could be made to happen.
> > Comments?
>
>      I'm for it :)

Thanks - I'm the person FoFP mentioned.  Short bio:

  I first came across Hawkwind at university, '75-'78.  I like the band but
  I don't know details about them (like who's in or out of the band at the
  moment etc.), so I guess I'm not a 'fan' in that sense <g>.

  I am an SF fan, and specifically a filker (filk, in short, is SF music
  created by SF fans).  I'm also a (sound) techie, I've run sound and
  recording for one small filk convention and been involved in sound tech
  at several others.  In October I'm running tech for a filk convention in
  Germany with a filk rock band.  I have a fair bit of my own tech stuff
  (but no PA, we hire that if it's more than we have in fandom).

FoFP said that you're thinking about a smallish gig, possibly 200 people or
so, next year.  That sounds feasible to me.  I'm willing to do liason with
the SF community and tech (either liason if the band have their own tech or
run tech if they want someone else to do it).  Things I don't know about are
venue and finance (you really don't want me doing financial things, trust me!),
but I know people who do know about such things from the SF fandom side.

Now I need to find the archives and see what you've all said so far <g>...

Chris C