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All Aboard! With Afterdark > Post Mortem
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AfterDARK a répondu le Mon 13 Mar, 2006 @ 4:13pm |
 Coolness: 38350 | Another Monday signals the end of a wild weekend for everyone at AfterDARK. Our All Aboard event featuring ShyFX, Bonjay & Skratch Bastid was one of the most challenging events we have organized, and also one of the most successful.
Without detailing the hard work that went into making this event happen over the last 2 months, I would like to share the hard work that went into making this party happen in the last 48 hours before the event. Station C seemed to be the perfect location for AfterDARK's latest project, and despite being told by EVERYONE in the Montreal entertainment industry that it was a mistake to work with that venue, we forged ahead, sometimes blindly, in the hopes that we would be the exception, and that All Aboard would be a success. Thursday at 11am I receive a call saying that we will not be allowed to run past 3am on Friday night. This is a MASSIVE problem, as we have been selling an event that runs until 5am, and were relying on Station C to deliver that. Without the ability to run after-hours, Station C is just a bar, and is not the ideal venue that we believed it was. So with no après 3am location, we go into negotiations with Circus After-hours who help us develop a back-up plan that would give us the first floor of the club and allow the event to continue at the new venue until 10am. Thursday 5pm I receive a second call amounting to the cancellation of All Aboard at Station C. With 30 hours before our doors are to open, a massive media and promotional blitz, over 10K invested in the event, we find ourselves homeless. We all went to bed on Thursday night without a venue for one of the largest urban dance events Montreal has had in a while. At 2pm on Friday afternoon, 8 hours before our doors were to open, we ink a deal with The Darling Foundry and our already over worked machine goes into overdrive. The venue was bare when we arrived. No sound, no stage, no bar, no coat check, NO NOTHING. Just a massive, albeit beautiful, room which was full of technical challenges. Well it was thanks to the hard work of the team, both it’s new old and new members that made this happen in the way that it did. Many of the people working on this project were new to the AfterDARK team and my hat goes off to them. Morgan Pampe, Pascalé, Caroline & Dave at The Foundry, Ricardo & JC at Circus were all instrumental in making the event happen and were a breath of fresh air after dealing with so much bull shit and dishonesty from the management at Station C. Having a team of such smart, hardworking and experienced people made all the difference in the world, and had it not been for Corey K on my right and Zach Klien on my left, this project would have fallen to shit. That is not AfterDARK's style, and I believe that despite the imperfections and lack of finesse that we all like to deliver, this was one of the better events we have produced, and we ALL look forward to working together again to make bigger and better urban dance events. This project may not have been the financial success that it would and should have been, it was a success in so many ways and I know that as we begin to work on the next project, AfterDARK is in a stronger, more experienced and better position to deliver high quality dance events to the Montreal market. Thank you to everyone who came out, put up with less then they usually get at an AfterDARK event, but still gave it there all. It was great to see EVERYONE flying so high. The energy in that room on Friday night was really awesome and something that we are all excited about replicating. Stay tuned as we work towards our next mega event in late April. ciao for now -andrew- @@@@ALSO@@@@ We have ZERO documentation of All Aboard! Because we were so understaffed and busy on the night, there was no time to take any pictures or videos, let alone have a drink. If people have ANY good shots from the event please let me know at grahamhussler @ [ gmail.com ] Our ability to show documentation to our sponsors will allow this company to grow and continue to produce high quality events - so help us out - please! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore a répondu le Mon 13 Mar, 2006 @ 5:47pm |
 Coolness: 471845 | word man ! what a jam !
nicely trashed, everyone i could think of except Dom were there , oh and Accomplice, who made it back to Montreal yesterday ... i think it was Scratch Bastid playing before Shy Fx ??!! but anyways, nice shit ! some breaks and reggae and jungle and grime and mo' fyah ! Props ! the legend SHY FX killed it for over 2 hours ! classics, new bomb choons, some reggae in the mix, sick !! everyone seemed fucked and happy only thing was the sound which i found was way too loud |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Aikido2 a répondu le Mon 13 Mar, 2006 @ 10:30pm |
 Coolness: 59865 | Incredible! Big up to this miracle!
Next time call me I have a nice place for 450 peeps you just bring your vinyls and play... steffractal@yahoo.ca |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Zz.ee.vV a répondu le Tue 14 Mar, 2006 @ 12:01am |
 Coolness: 194065 | much respect. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Atrix a répondu le Tue 14 Mar, 2006 @ 12:30pm |
 Coolness: 55330 | Props to everyone involved. Work by the skin of your teeth. Keep it up. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BA_Baracus a répondu le Tue 14 Mar, 2006 @ 1:14pm |
 Coolness: 121075 | WOW
cool to see what happened and how really difficult it was to put this event on! some just pretend they realize the efforts needed to throw jams, keep em coming! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear a répondu le Tue 14 Mar, 2006 @ 2:07pm |
 Coolness: 2604025 | I should have come to take photos ;)... Ended up at a punk squat... Lame lame... Glad everything went well... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin a répondu le Tue 14 Mar, 2006 @ 4:06pm |
 Coolness: 276475 | yeah I cant see something punk-squating being very fun... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» jas_nasty a répondu le Tue 14 Mar, 2006 @ 4:28pm |
 Coolness: 56530 | ha haha
thanks andrew, corey k, and afterdark crew........................sucks what you had to deal with, you did fucking great in the end though! i had a great time. :) |
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