Electronic Music Show

Had a surprisingly successful show last night in my first gig as strictly a "promoter" (contacted to be a promoter by a real agent or whatever). The only thing that went wrong was Artificer's whole set. She had an equipment malfunction and wasn't able to play. Frowny face. I know she's constantly had issues with her drone machine and even the last show she had doubts as to whether it'd actually work. She was able to sound check but when it was time for her to actually perform it wouldn't work. She's resolved to upgrade her equipment now so hopefully next time things will go better! She was scheduled pretty early, but there was actually a decent-sized crowd gathered by the time she was to play (mostly friends but not bad for an opener in an early slot, far from a room to no one). Revenge Body was good as always. He picked a jazz station for his radio bursts (when he was scanning before and ran across that station, I was like, that one!). So we had two touring acts (I think the funny thing is they weren't touring together, just happened to cross paths at the same time, not sure if they have the same manager but it's kinda crazy how it worked out with two such similar acts crossing paths here at the same time). And there was a surprisingly good turnout for Memphis on a weeknight. It was actually a pretty good turnout. The venue didn't feel empty or anything. I mean, this wouldn't be a fill-the-Hi-Tone sort of crowd, but it was respectable, surprisingly so actually. A lot had to do with Steve Hauschildt's name recognition and draw. But yeah, Majeuere was up next (it's A.E. Paterra, Zombi's drummer!). His set was really good, very Berlin-school type sounds and sequences and such. Steve Hauschildt was really good as well. Ambient and a little trancey but with idm-glitchish elements (a lot of it makes me thing of Oversteps, with fewer "out there" elements, but not devoid of such). They seemed pretty nice. Steve wanted to talk to Jacques and me about our band shirts (Coil and Cluster respectively). They actually made some money (even more than I was expecting given the head count, Les may have taken a little less off the top than originally advertised). I hit up their merch. I got from Steve Hauschildt two cds: Sequitur and Dissolvi. And then from Anthony I got three Majeure cds: Timespan, Solar Maximum, and Termination Shock as well as that of another project: Contact: Zero Moment. I got lots of good feelings from it all. And it makes me a little happy knowing that I'm partly why it even happened. The manager had booked it but wasn't going to keep the date if he couldn't find someone to promote it. So just by agreeing to it, I helped it move along. Also, didn't do too bad a job with the results even though it was mostly the stature of the artists themselves bringing the people in. It was over not super late but was a little slow getting to sleep due to residual excitement so was a little tired today, but not too bad. There was this massage gift certificate Mary Beth gave me for Christmas last year, well I'd kept forgetting about it and whatever and she finally reminded me to check it out and we did and it was originally gotten in November of last year and it had a one-year expiration. Since it was just a few weeks over I figured I'd contact the place and see if they'd still honor it. At first they got back to me and were just like they'd honor 50%. Well, I put my pleading skills to the test and managed to get them to honor it completely! (I mean, they already got the money and it's not that far over and the date is kind of an arbitrary thing anyway...) So that was my big accomplishment for the day.