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"The Fantastic Tortoise Music Festival"

I've been looking for ideas on how to make money.

Animation is great, but if I ever tried to live off it without being an absolute professional, I'd be quickly dead.

I had a look through gap year stuff... decided to take a gap year this year, relax a bit, try and get through this tumor biz and get animating a bit more.

In the "ways to fund your gap year" section, I started reading about what people did to make money so they could travel.

A man did a parachute jump and raised £200 or so, pushing a VW Beetle for 5 miles, £250.

And another girl did this fashion show. She got models, clothes, everything, local talent or something, sold drink on the premises, made an absolute fortune.

And she gave -part- of the money to charity.

Now that's where I suddenly got a bit confused. I didn't realise you could do that.

I mean, all the charity events to raise money for causes etc... it escapes my mind that the organisers actually KEEP some of the money for themselves.

Which has inspired me ever so slightly.

What if I organised some sort of event... well not on my own, obviously, I'd kill myself that way too.

But to raise money for Cancer Research, and at the same time allow myself to raise a bit of cash so I can see about travelling abroad, buying myself a car, funding animations, etc..?

It sounds almost too good to be true.

It's a dream. And I think, perhaps, if there's something that's been trying to be taught to me by all this illness I seem to gather, it's that dreams are there to be followed, because to be honest, we haven't really got time to waste.

It's a thought. The First Annual Fantastic Tortoise Music Festival. Held near Cambridge. Invite local bands to play, so it's good publicity for them, can pay them to play if they desire.. charge people per head, maybe get a drinks license so we could sell drink about the place..?

If the effort was made, if every little detail was covered, it could be amazing. Competitions, music, entertainment, raising money for charity, and solving my problem of what to do with my life.

I think I may be insane enough to pull this off.

Who knows. I've got nothing better to do. Perhaps it'll make the world a better place.

Summer next year. Let's see if I can get it organised.

I'll try and muster the courage to mosey onto the X5 and come down. I'll probably back out though.

My friend just used the local village hall. Only held a couple of hundred people, and only the one stage, but that kind of thing has advantages of easy access to power plugs and stuff, a stage, somewhere for the lights and bits...

It'd rock being in a field, so basically, that's the way it has to go.

But then there's the problem of a stage/power/lighting/sound.. argh.

It may come to it that we'll have to build a stage ourselves. Renting lights/generators etc shouldn't be too difficult, may get a reduced price for charity work too. Just gotta find out where from..

But building a stage? Sounds great fun, but that's gonna be hard work. Do people actually rent stages to go in fields, etc?

Me and a friend wanted to organise a festival in our village. But there's no way we'd be able to get permission etc.

But yeah - I'd go, it'd be hilarious.

Nidal (me) MAY be available to help if it's in the Sout East of england.

:-D

you could have an SR Tent with ermm open drinks. or something/.

Pfft good luck, we'll double the price for you generous chaps who want so desperately to help us out =) But yeah, it will be in the south east, intention is for it to be somewhere around my town where Grix knows a good few of us. That town would be Saffron Walden, 15 or 20 miles south of Cambridge, still looking for a venue though.

I reckon one section will have to be dedicated to 80's rock.

AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, etc :) Stuff like that. Some stuff you just NEED to hear on stage.

hmm..

One night dedicated to rocky stuff, bouncy head mashing festival music, hand clapping stuff. I like covers, lots of covers.

One night dedicated to more laid back music, jazzy stuff, soft rock, more songs actually written by bands than covers.

Then last night being entertainment night. :) Stuff people can sing along to and know the words to, sing and sway to.

That's an awful lot of music. Probably end up taking it down to two nights, but if it can be filled, it WILL be filled.

Well that's a basic plan for now, stage -may- already be sorted, still need a bloody field!

How about brining in Oakenfold, or Fatboy slim?

Good headliner

:-P

Oakenwah?

It's a music festival, remember.