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| quote: | Originally posted by LucasYork
I now admire the way hard dance/DnB fan's support their music, not their promotors.
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firstly, i appreciate what you have done, and do respect the fact that you're trying, but what's a comment like that supposed to achieve?
do you think clubbers care who the promoter is? i'll have you know that people generally don't know who the promoters are and don't care at least so it's not like we are supporting other promoters over you.
admittedly, saturday night may have not turned out the way you would have liked, but if you are on this board, and a promoter, then you should have a better idea than most as to how much pull trance has in adelaide, not to mention the fact that likely not one person off this board has any idea who steve strangis is and even i have no idea who tom-e or sam gee are. the point that i'm trying to make is that definitely i would say that if this is what you want to do, then go ahead and pursue it, maybe just start out smaller. what heath is doing at echo is good for adelaide, it is filling a niche, trance, is a small thing in adelaide and soda room simply because of its size is a perfect venue for that. so yes, it was risky what you did at lerox and i hope you at least broke even for your efforts, and no doubt all of us here appreciate that you did risk that. if being a promoter is what you want to do then maybe even talk to heath, i dont know how you two get along, but maybe if you cooperate and co-organise echo, you could make it twice as big then eventually move to bigger events at bigger venues. i do think it was fairly ambitious to even come close to filling the bridgeway for a number of factors (distance from the city, ticket price, music, etc.) especially considering the health of the trance scene (bar echo) here and as stampy i think said, if anyone, you want at least all of us there. lucas, i say stick with it, but be careful. don't let one night get to you.
think of this as a stimulation for discussion, not as criticism.
on a lighter note, even though there weren't many there, i had a great time, its always good to hear great music over the speakers instead of the odd track or two being ok every now and then. and wow!  i did like the lighting production, thumbs up for that and wicked sound too (go the "la"-"ser"). good to see all the ta's again, steve, i've seen ya play 4 times now and havent ever had the chance to say hi properly... will have to soon  good to meet ya DC too, sorry dude, ya old fart! eh eh!  j/k dude,
highlights: kallocain, active sight and solarcoaster  !!! i dunno bout that silence song tho... 
heh heh, i reckon solarcoaster and atrc are steve's signature songs, didnt hear waterfall though... unfortunately i had to leave about during cafe del mar so missed a bit, but its all good. i liked  ... just curious, do any of you have I95 or velvet morning (Aalto), i'd love to hear them in a club...
i'm no promoter, but would handing around a few free passes at uni bring in a few extra people? like i dunno, how it all works, but wouldn't a bit of exposure be good?? like apart from word of mouth, maybe about ten or twenty dotted around, to strangers of course, assume a third come, that'd only be good. and a few posters around on the pillars? like the one out the front of the engineering building and unirecords?? and the one on the stairs? just a thought... i do realise that it would cost money for all this though... just i think that we need to attach the night that month ago with the echo name, then when people see the word echo, they will remember. but i suppose, being able to do it again is the clincher.
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