Folkweek and Thanet Rocks
I don’t seem to do this very often, maybe time for a bit of an update.
Summer for me is pretty much over now, but it was a good one. I took just over a week off work for folk week (yes, the whole week and yes, I know the words to the clarence the dragon song) where I plied my way through many beers. It wasn’t the best year, bit of a washout at first, but it was still very good. I even managed to get in some fireclub passing going on the beach on the wednesday. I normally do alot of cicus type stuff at folk week, but I didn’t so much this year. Probably got my yearly fix doing a circus workshop for Manston village fete a couple of weeks before.
Much of my folkweek was taken up with flyering for a gig I was holding on the Sunday in Westgate which was called the Thanet Rocks End Of Summer Bash. Thanet Rocks being the recent tagline for oonagi… probably drop that a bit now as its been hammered pretty hard. Anyway, the idea of the gig was to have a bit of a festival of local original music. We had seven local bands and artists doing their own thing and all the money we made went to charity. We raised around £375 for Thanet Mind, whoop! Thats the summary, if you want to know all the trials and tribulations that went into it, plus a rundown of the day then a full write-up on The Gig 06 link at the top of oonagi. Right at the moment I’m working on a mini-site bonus feature of a DVD thats being made of the day. We’ll be selling them in the hope of raising a bit more money for the aforementioned worthy charity.
Other than that I’m preparing to go to uni in september. Oxford Brookes to study computers and culture for three years. This has raised a concern with my role in oonagi. I do so much work on the site that I’m a bit worried at having to let it go. I’ll still help out but I’m not going to be local, which is one of the fundamentals of oonagi.
Ok, see you again in…. who knows \m/(^_^)\m/