Sick and inept. Sinept.
May 30th, 2011 § 6 Comments
It’s 10am on a Monday morning. I’m sitting on a leather sofa, wrapped up in a dressing gown and drinking a hot cup of tea.
No, I’m not Hugh Hefner. I’m sick.
Sickness inspires all manner of clumsiness in me. In the two hours since I woke up, I’ve managed to spill cough syrup and some tea, almost fall over in the bathroom and misspell the word ‘manner’ a ridiculous number of times. It just doesn’t look like a real word any more. The second ‘n’, the ‘er’ that sounds more like it should be ‘ur’ when you say it out loud … none of it makes sense to my fatigued, medicine-addled brain.
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It’s now 12:39. I decided that I was sick of feeling sick. I got washed and dressed (to a certain extent. I’m still wearing the cosy dressing gown and pyjama bottoms under my dress) and have spent the last twenty minutes online, looking at small music venues in London. I signed up to become an event organiser for Oxjam and received a neat toolkit in the post the other day to help me plan said event (basically a booklet with checklists and pre-arranged calendars and omg organisational skillz). I’ve never put on an event before; needless to say, I’m pretty excited to get things started! The festival itself takes place in October, which gives me five months to prepare. I’ll try to chronicle my experiences here.
If anyone reading this has any experience with putting on a live music event, or with event organising in general, any tidbits of advice would be greatly appreciated. :)
Right. Back to rubbing my TIRED SICK EYES and nursing my SORE THROAT. Illness transforms me into a drama queen, it seems.
Talk to you guys soon. <3
Hey, I’ve run lots of events for both young and old people and the best thing I can tell you is to keep calm because things will go wrong but it’s not the end of the world.
Get on facebook and get advertising early. It also helps to attract bands and singers who want to perform at the event.
Don’t be afraid to ask your friends for help, I wanted to do everything on my own and it didn’t work but delegating does. I’m also lucky enough to have friends in bands who could pull lots of people who didn’t mind playing for free for me.
Hope that helps, feel free to email me if you need anything, I left my email on this little form thing :]
Thanks for the advice, Stacey. :) I think ‘keep calm and carry on’ will have to be my motto for the next five months!
If ever I need more words of wisdom, I will put your email address to good use. Thanks again. <3
Aw, I’m afraid I can’t help with the event planning, but I do hope you feel better. <3 Being sick is no fun. :(
NO IT ISN’T. *sadface* I’m feeling a lot better than I was before this comment was posted, though. I hold you partly responsible for my steady rehabilitation. :D
Checklists, postits, folders, and all other generic office supplies are your friend.
Definitely get on the facebook game, try and get folks to talk about it word of mouth, since that is definitely an amazing resource.
Ask for bands and such early on.
Hope this helped! Hope you get better soon. <3
currently helping organise a comedy event in my town, might be able to help somewhat! drop me an email if you have any questions xxxxxxx