Quote Originally Posted by theledge View Post
i dislike the word 'promotion' because to me it conjures up thoughts of glossy flyers, press releases and general marketing schtum, now of course these all have a place, i'm just saying that there's more to it than that.

to be honest when i feel someone is trying to 'promote a night' at me, they usually get a polite smile followed by the short shrift they deserve. glossy flyers don't (usually) cut the mustard. i get excited about a night when there's a real word of mouth factor, my friends are going, when i feel there's going to be a great party (plus the bonus of seeing a great techno act at the same time)

of course creating this is easier said than done. hence why most new techno nights **** up.

to be honest i wasn't aiming the previous post at you, i probably shouldn't have carelessly quoted you. ;)




I cut my techno teeth in Leeds as it goes, lived there for years, ran techno nights at the west indian centre a few years ago. Think i left before Joy started but i heard you guys are doing a great job up there :)


Cool mate, what event did you run, Must have been a while as its almost 5 years Joy has been running (legally) now hehe (how time flies)

i was under the inpression you aimed it as me/us but i now realise you hadnt hehe, i had to make a stand as we put a hell of alot into our events, not just money but alot of (too much in fact) of our personal time, if we didnt their would, to put it simple, be no Joy...Leeds is extremely hard now for techno, almost imposibble to do it on a very regular basis, as i said in a previous post, Alot of leeds think they are listening to techno when they are not, they come to a place like Joy etc and crap themself hahaha.
You really have to work it hard and make sure you reach the correct people to market the event to. hence the reason its so important to know your crowd, i think this is a point you even touched on earlier..
Alot of our crowd travel from out of town.


also just to reply to RDR, we actually do have people flyer on the streets still, and get away with it :) Just!! but its very hard to do so, the council have really clamped down, we have also had fines for illegal fly postering and all sorts of other troubles in the past

:)