Common Ground '07, Adelaide - SOLD OUT!!!

drumming as backing for the show will depend largely on the drummers that show up - I wont be pushing for it this year however, it needs to be something that flows, and will only occur if there is a cohesive drum crew

PS - mp3 vs cd vs vinyl is an argument best left to the appropriate forum(s) hey Biggins

I think I've seen that one about a billion times (no really!) on

-oztrance
-australiens
-tranceadelaide
-604
-psyforum
-isratrance

I bet youve seen it on all these and more.

probs dont need it here...yet!

excellent, im a *little* music nerdy, so most of my stuff is at least 192kbps

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Wow this thread has grown!! I'm still unsure of plans at the mo, want to come so much though...

I'll do a strongie b drinking and pie eating workshop if I can make it *goes off to find DeepSoulSheep as he was a trooper on the strongie b front at the first one*....

hee so yup other than dj stuff.. i was wondering if the guys that did the chai stall the first CG are ever coming back?..

..and if not i guess i'm offering to run a chai stall for breaky? i think we missed that last year hey.. mm steamy chai in the morning..

lex!! hope you can make it!

mmmm, id gladly give you a bit of a hand kitten

yay! that sounds wonderful peetle
aren't you supposed to be at school right now?

i think that first one looks more like a ferret

hehe, i *was* at school when i posted that... am now at home

I wish I was at home . Today has just gone balls up at work

aha biggins.. now we know where those snacks of dubious origin disappeared to..!

i'll bring honeycrackles if you bring cake!

id offer to help but that means not sleeping in for half the day again in the magical snail, only to be woken by singing camels, slou... ill help
do we have any ideas on teachers of workshops? and indeed what those workshops will be?

I was thinking that this year we could have a DIY workshop schedule- ie we set up the spaces, and CG provides the teachers. I think we have enough people coming that will be able to offer something interesting, skillful or just plain whacky to learn, that we will be able to simply put up a chalk board and have people put up their workshops. A bit like Confest.

how does this sound?

Josh

sounds good to me

*writes bretts name on chalkboard*

ok... then... what exactly will i be teaching?
i think this year instead of having 'advanced poi' and 'beginers poi' we should have a few different workshops like have a 'poi flowers workshop', 'atomics workshop', 'inversions workshop' 'get down and jammin with socks and balls workshop' *shrugs* think it will work better that way... dont look at me for taking throws or tangels workshop though.... maybe i should run a dance like shiva workshop... happy to do a handstand, 360 handstand and butterfly kicks workshop but have a stress that if i give wrong instruction for how you should hold yourself or someone is dumb I'll be in trouble... also happy to share some contact staffness...

i like the idea of workshops for specific things - takes out the element of "what level am i?"

true... im thinking that i would try and aim most of my workshops so every one can do them... like butterfly stuff can range from butterfly to that werid butterfly isolated inversion that pete and i do.... i got the idea to run workshops that way after matts inversions workshop which i thought worked really well... i know flowers can be taught like that quite well and also my under the leg stuff... maybe your right though maybe we need the uber beginerclass...

Well I am still planning on throwing in a quick 2UberOZ about 5 weeks before this, so you will have plenty of things to practice, and lots new geeky terms to throw around. Maybe even some in Japanese...

seeings as i am hoping to attend some wiorkshops,

can some do a short duouble staff and maybe a club twirling workshop??

taaa

Bx

mmm, i also like that idea of workshops to suit all

(ps brettmo, i did that butterfly isolashy thing with fire last night.. it was.. messy )

hey can i commission someone make me a contact staff for CG?
I feel bad that i gotta steal people's gear everytime there's a contact staff workshop.

also, i think we need a colour photo of contact chris on a stick, so that he can attend this year's CG in spirit. loved watchin that guy do his fire magick the most!

b

thanks for the clarification, Josh. I totally concur with the importance placed on keeping a lush atmosphere at CG (My post was primarily a reation to feeling badly for Jon, admittedly he did leave a playlist running as opposed to DJing...)

i loooooove psy and prog and perhaps i was being too conscious of other people who might not live and breathe doof every weekday and all weekend I bought several kilos of psy and prog last time have some fun lined up - I'm grateful for every second i get to share the music i love with people playing with the art i love!
I've been loading up on crossover world music: bhangra/d'n'b, psychedlic dub, french reggae and other slower happy daytime stuff.

if anyone can't be bothered burning 90 CDs at only MP3 quality to play at CG, i have a Traktor set up on my laptop instead... 4.57 GB of Mp3s on a DVD will can easily get beatmatched with FX and filters....

i like the idea of confest style workshop boards - so much spontaneous majick happens at large gatherings of talent, and a flexible workshop structure would be a great enabler of such spontaneity.

on the topic of chais... more is more!!!
i would pay to have enough - if we can get a big urn to use, it would be swell.

Thanks bender for saying not everyone lives and breathes doof

*runs and hides now*