2024
I would love to step back a bit from organising all of this but have no idea how to get there. Please have a think if you could help in some way and we can have a chat.
Camper Calling 2024: assuming they ask us again (who knows?) we will be there next year so keep the last weekend of August free. Priority places for 2023 crew but they might well offer us fewer tickets so get ready to commit (there will be a £50 deposit this time).
Do we apply for more events? This can only happen if there are enough crew (pro’s & volunteers). Suggested events: Blue Dot, Green Man. We have worked both of these in previous years. Womad– would be amazing, sounded keen for this year but didn’t get back to me in the end. If anyone has useful contacts that please pass on. Getting in and persuading festys to give even the tightest budgets is difficult, they expect everything for nothing.
Burns. These are not festivals and there is no budget for them even for costs and you need to be completely self-sufficient as nothing can be purchased. Greta & me took some walkabout to Nest which is the (small) UK burn and it was fun- that’s in May. We’d love to take something bigger to Borderlands in Denmark which is late July. Possibly the Acousatron or just a load of noise things and the dome – this is only gonna be possible with a group of us, maybe running our own camp but that might be too ambitious. You would need to cover the costs of getting yourself there plus the tickets (‘membership’) so not a cheap option but potentially life-changing. Read up here. Maybe this is more of a 2025 thing but we might try to get to Nest and/or Borderlands in 24 and do a noise recce unless several of you are really keen to help us do something bigger this year.