EDINBURGH SCOTLAND MEETUP - SATURDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2008

Due to incredible worldwide interest all over the internet, I'm proud to announce the return of the worlds most popular Edinburgh fan meetup event, which will take place at an as yet undisclosed secret location in Edinburgh's city centre on Saturday 27th September 2008.

Further details will be announced shortly. The venue will be very close to previous nites venues, and in very easy walking distance of about 5 minutes from both the Waverley train station and St Andrews Square bus station, and about 15 minutes taxi ride from Edinburgh Airport for those fans jetting in from across the globe to attend this unmissable event.

Please keep your diaries free on that date and check back regularly for further information. Your co-operation in spreading the word about this event will be appreciate greatly.

Will there be drinking? I'll go if there is drinking.

just one week to go!

i was wondering who is coming from out of town and arriving in edinburgh early, and wants to do something during the afternoon, or even meet for a meal about 4.30ish before going to the cameo bar (as i should be there for 5.30pm latest)?

if anyone wants to get some food first, let me know by posting here some details, and what type of food you prefer. there is a chinese buffet called jimmy chungs that's 5 minutes away, thats cheap and eat till you pop, and i think the same deal at a nearby pizza hut, but there are other places from japanese food to curry houses and fish and chip shops, it just depends on what people fancy

likewise if anyone wants to keep on partying after midnite, let me know and what you fancy doing and i'll try and offer some suggestions or make plans

Dont think i can make it but have a great time and post pics xxxx

Emmmmm.

Strippers. I want strippers. lol


I am working 'till 10 so depending on how knackered I am I will pop up for the 2 hours.

If that is ok like???

WILL COME AT 6 FOR COUPLE HOURS. DRIVING BUT WILL HAVE ONE DRINK (OR 2)

i had good ra night. Good to meettwas cool to get change of scenery for a night with perfect music. Need to do it again soon wont drive though

xxx

thanks everyone for coming, it was good to see everyone again and for the first time in some cases. it was great that the venue management allowed us to keep playing until nearly 11pm and then they played even more prince until midnite (and still going when i left) with a small MJ interlude of 80s hits, so we ended up with almost 6 straight hours of prince music and videos in the end

what was also good was that both the regulars and bar staff were into it, the manager on the early shift stayed in the bar after her shift with one of the other staff members as they were right into it, and i even had requests from the staff to play certain prince tracks. it turns out they have a few fans who work there, thus they played the hits after i was finished djing. it was also good to hear from regulars who were initially a bit put off by the idea of a prince nite, but they all admitted they liked one track or another and at the end of the nite they enjoyed it and were surprised how many songs they knew and how much they liked them, and they were impressed by the guitar work on the videos on the plasma. that's always been something i've aimed for when doing prince nites, to put on something that won't be offputting to staff, so they aren't sick of hearing prince at the end of the nite. fortunately he has such a huge and varied back catalogue so i can mix it up with rock, funk, soul, jazz and pop styles, and being a bar rather than a club i could mix things up by playing non danceable tracks that i wouldn't normally play at the club prince nites, and threw in a few jam and lewis classics to mix things up further, and of course some cameo

at the end of the nite the manager gave me the impression they might be up for doing it again, and advertising it in advance on the flyers, website and in house marketing material, as they distribute a lot of cinema programs across edinburgh, and have quite a big student following. as this was arranged at short notice we were unable to do this, but the bar was still full all nite until about 11ish. i was actually surprised that when i turned up at 5.30 the place was so full there were hardly any seats left

i thought it was a cool venue and the staff were all cool, friendly and helpful, so if people like the venue and are into doing this again, i could perhaps try and arrange another date some time in the future with more notice and planning. i don't know if they would be willing to let us have the saturday nite again, and probably not a friday either as those are particularly busy days, and i am aware that a few people travel from fife and glasgow areas etc so weekdays aren't really great, and i really appreciate people making the effort to travel from afar to these events. i particularly like how people travel from france, belgium, ireland, spain, etc and even america in a couple of cases to the london prince parties, as i've never heard of people doing that at any other prince parties held elsewhere in the world, so i want to ensure anything else planned in future is arranged so those travelling can get there and back easily

so even if you missed this event, if you are interested in another in edinburgh, either at this same venue, or elsewhere, please let me know by posting here. if we can build up a decent number of regular attendees i might be able to arrange a full on party with dancing. i have discussed this with another club venue who are up for it, but i need a certain number to make it feasible. it is a really great central venue, but i don't want to take the plunge unless i'm sure i can make up the numbers, unless someone with deep pockets wants to take care of the venue costs. i could even possibly arrange a club nite with free entry, which would be great, and it means that people can drag along parners and non fans without them complaining about paying to go to something they don't think they will like (and then we can brainwash them into our perverted musical ways), but i just need reassurance that enough people will turn up by putting on a good attendance at a meetup first

so any thoughts on a future event are appreciated
[Edited 9/28/08 12:10pm]