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Roll Call: The Final W.E.M.F. (07/18/08-07/20/08) (pg. 13)
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by NuERA
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA OMG THE MEMORIES ANDREW!! :stongue: :stongue: |
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| me@t k@tie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Endgame
Katie, what car are you gonna be driving up in so we can look for ya?
Grrr..where's that sitemap? |
We'll be in a burgundy Audi A4.
The site map should be released tomorrow earlyish I think. |
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| Jem_hadar |
The Newly created road "Destiny Drive"
Setup under way on one of the stages. MASSIVE!
HOLY BEAUTIFUL!!!!
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| jchung52 |
| how many are expected this year? |
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| ÖZmözis |
| ARE YOU FINE? ARE YOU FINE? ARE YOU FINE? ARE YOU FINE???? |
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| orangejuice |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jem_hadar
I'm PISSED!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As much as I love the Brown G, he lacks breasts and so cant really replace. If you werent coming and Hot G dropped out, then id be sufficiently satisfied that you were coming in her stead...
Now, I am excited for Brown G is coming, but he cant be a replacement, merely a nice suprise/bonus.
I CANT BELIEVE HOT G ISNT COMING NOW!! :( :( :( :( :( :( :( |
iv been trying jamie!! iv been eating a load of chocolate covered almonds just for u lol |
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| orangejuice |
| oh btw COUNT ME IN BITCHES! picked up my ticket last nite |
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| kotsy |
| I have room for 3 once again.. or am looking for a lift if anyone has room in their car that is leaving from Toronto/Durham (going up friday/coming back sunday) |
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| Ravist |
| in for sure with 12 of my friends |
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| Adamo |
Message from the veteran WEMF Medical Responder Team!
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WEMF preparations:
Checkout other people’s “what to bring lists” – Everyone has a few different suggestions and you can fine tune it to your needs. Make sure you include some warm clothing because it can get cool at night. Make sure sunscreen and bug spray makes the list too!!
If you have any medical problems that require medication or monitoring like diabetes, epilepsy, severe asthma etc. feel free to come by and introduce yourself. We can discuss any concerns you may have and even an come up with an emergency plan if something happens to you. YOU MUST BRING ANY PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS YOU NEED like your inhalers, Epi-pens or other things with you. They should be in their properly labelled containers with your name on them. These should be the FIRST things on your packing list! If Security has any concerns, they can call us.
Make sure you have emergency contact information on you at all times. Health card, Driver’s license etc or you can add “I.C.E.” as one of list of numbers in your cell phone. It stands for “In Case of Emergency” and should be a relative or someone you trust with your life if decisions need to be made. They should know you very well and be able to call other people for you. You can have several I.C.E. numbers.
Keep your fluids up. Slow and steady. Don’t wait till you’re thirsty because that means you are already dehydrated. If you are really drinking a lot of water, consider Gatorade or similar drinks to keep your salt balance right. Water alone, in excessive amounts can also be bad for you.
If it’s really sunny, consider bringing a dining tent or similar with you for shade or to put over you regular tent. They’re not too expensive (some as low as $60) and if you split the cost with friends in the area, it becomes a worthwhile cheap investment and much more comfortable.
This event will be well patrolled by Security. They are under instructions to call us if they are at all concerned about you or anyone at the event. Don’t hesitate to make contact with them and they will get hold of us. YOU WILL NOT GET INTO ANY TROUBLE!!!!!! Safety is our top priority, not legal issues. Hiding someone in their tent and hoping for the best is not the smart or the right thing to do. Call us or Security and we will look after them until they are well enough to go back to the party. It’s all about the warm n fuzzies!
If you have any other questions about the service we offer or any other concerns, email me or come and see me @ WEMF! Barring any last minute changes, we should be there from 2 pm Friday till 1 pm Sunday and available anytime day and night.
PARTY HARD & PARTY SAFE!
~ Adam
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| exstasie |
From the Toronto Star this morning:
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Goodbye, World: fond farewell to electronic fest
Organizers are shutting down, like many before it, but spirit will live on
July 17, 2008
Ben Rayner
Pop Music Critic
Friedrich Nietzsche was probably no great shakes at a party but, if suitably inclined, he no doubt could have bent post-rave vernacular into a memorable statement: "That which doesn't kill an electronic-music festival only makes it stronger."
A lot of North America's are indeed dead, legislated and red-taped into capitulation or – if you live in certain reactionary pockets of the United States – trampled outright beneath homeland paramilitary sorties.
Within a few hours' drive from Toronto, we still have the annual Om Reunion Project subsisting as a non-profit, co-op-ish venture and Quebec's psy-trance-themed Eclipse festival each summer, but they're "niche" events, not massive, catch-all throwdowns.
The festivals that survive are scattered, furtive and generally must content themselves with hanging onto the same faithful, if dwindling, crowds they've always had.
After 14 years at the helm of the World Electronic Music Festival, co-founder Ryan Kruger – the sole behind-the-scenes mainstay since the three-day campout's inception as the World Trance Festival in 1995 – has hung on long enough to lay claim to the longest-running event of its kind in North America, but even he's giving up the ghost after one last bash on a stretch of farmland in Madawaska, south of Algonquin Park, this weekend.
"That just makes you feel old," he says of WEMF's elder-statesman status on the dance-music scene. "I don't know if it's necessarily a claim to fame."
WEMF's retirement isn't total, to be fair, as Kruger, 36, and his Destiny Productions partner Jesse Brown started a parallel camping excursion of a more rock 'n' roll bent called the Cutting Edge Music Festival last year that they're bringing back to the Grand Bend Motorplex on Aug. 1-4 with oddball co-headliners Alexisonfire and Mix Master Mike.
Only a pair of committed masochists would attempt to mount two back-to-back festivals on an annual basis, though. So as much as they love the institution that is WEMF, they've been forced to concede that it's not worth the headaches and the sleepless nights any longer.
"We still look forward to it, but the energy and the time commitment you have to put into something like this is massive," says Kruger. "It's not like throwing a show in a club, which we do throughout the year, that can be planned in your spare time on evenings and weekends. This really involves a massive time commitment from Jesse and myself and everyone else involved, including my wife.
"Before, there was at least a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel and, at the end of the day, you went home with a little bit of money after you had a good time, you got to hang out with your friends and you got to bring in all these DJs from overseas. .... But over the last three years, even that little bit of money has disappeared. So we're really throwing a party for 5,000 people for nothing."
WEMF has persevered through all manner of adversity over the past 14 years, so it can't have been an easy decision to close things down for good.
A freak tornado ripped its inaugural outing near Bowmanville to pieces on the Friday night. In 1998, the Destiny crew overcame the daunting logistics of transporting 10,000 partygoers back and forth to a dream site on Christian Island on a single, 150-capacity ferry.
The next year, the unfortunate death of an attendee who wandered off site, 21-year-old Kieran Kelly, thrust Kruger and his compatriots in the Toronto party scene into the midst of an anti-rave witch hunt that essentially brought an end to an era when dance-music events hosting 10-15,000 people were common each weekend. An OPP roadblock then threatened to shut down a subsequent festival in Bobcaygeon, although ironically, the town would have WEMF back the following year once it realized how much money it made off all the traffic passing through.
There's simply not enough of an audience to sustain the high-end talent – this year's lineup includes the A-list likes of Christopher Lawrence, Max Graham, Chris Liberator, Freq Nasty, Andy C, Mickey Finn and fest fave Mark EG – and production to which WEMF devotees are accustomed, without resorting to corporate sponsorship, past experiments with which have left Kruger and Brown wary.
Instead, the pair hope to boost the electronic component of future Cutting Edge festivals. That event grew out of the indie-rock-centric "Cutting Edge" stage they introduced to WEMF in 2006 in a half-successful attempt to bring acts such as Broken Social Scene, Tokyo Police Club and illScarlett to the festival's electronic-music audience, so turnabout is fair play.
"As much as we thought that would be a great idea, to bring rock into the electronic scene, it didn't really work because the rock people didn't necessarily want to go to an electronic event. So our thought was the other way around works okay – what we'll do is throw a rock event and bring the electronic people into that. And that's worked much better," says Kruger.
"WEMF will be gone next year, but Cutting Edge will be much bigger."
AARON VINCENT ELKAIM/TORONTO STAR
Destiny Productions’ Jesse Brown, left, and Ryan Kruger are throwing their final camping (and music) excursion this weekend. Next year they will look to expand their Cutting Edge rock festival. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by exstasie
From the Toronto Star this morning:
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"WEMF will be gone next year, but Cutting Edge will be much bigger."
I hope that means bigger headliners then mix master mike if they want to make it even comparable |
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