Ok with great thanks to Adrian for the photographs. the Jemfest UK 2001 Gallery is now open for your viewing pleasure.
Please feel free to send me pictures and write ups as your wish.
28.10.2001.08:42GMT
Just a real quick note to say a very big thank you to Simon for organising a fantastic event. It was great to meet up with all of you and I hope you all enjoyed yourselves as much as I did. This page will soon turn into a gallery and post board for the event, so send me some pictures and I'll get them posted. don't forget to go to the forum and let everyone know what you thought.
Hats off to ya Simon.
23.10.2001.16:22BST
Well just a few days to go now, looks like all is in place for a great event, its just up to all of us now to attend and make all Simon's hard work a success. If all goes well this year, next years event can only get even better.
I for one will be buying Simon a drink on Saturday to thank him for all his hard work in organising this, the first European Jemfest, i only hope we can look back on this event and say 'I was there' with a feeling of pride.
See you all there!!!
15.10.2001.13:53BST
Jemfest UK Raffle details:
For prizes see above:
On the day you can enter the raffle as many times as you like
Please a minimum of £5 to enter the raffle (money goes to charity)
(Dont forget £5 could win you a custom swirl job on a guitar!)
Raffle entry will be in the form of you writing your name, address and email
on a postcard and dropping it in the big raffle box.
If you are not coming to Jemfest UK and would still like to be in the raffle
for the ATD swirl, body modification and custom made body.
Here is how to enter:
send me $7 per entry and anything else you want to donate (for charities see
above) to my Paypal account.
my email is
s.wilkins@totalise.co.uk
Note Please tell me how many entries you want...
for example
here is $50 put me down for three entries-the rest a donation to charity
I am NOT entering any raffle and that way I can pick out the winners and be
completely independent.
I repeat these raffles are open to anyone Glen, Kevan, Gabe, Ken, Kirk, Bill
etc.
This raffle (apart from the prizes) is a UK thing and completely separate
from any Jemfest USA raffle or event.
Good luck!
If you have any suggestions please email me
s.wilkins@rocketmail.com
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The
hotel should be sorted today...details to follow
For those of you on the continent thinking about coming but think airfares
will be too much try:
http://www.ryanair.com
they have flights from all over Europe to London for as low as £1 per
flight. Yes ONE POUND!
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HOTEL IS SORTED!
Please email me for details and who to phone, where it is, and directions
from the airports.
I have booked the rooms as you have requested. Everything is cool!
We have discounted rooms too.
Best wishes
Simon
11.08.2001.22.21BST
Jemfest 2K1.5 (UK) in conjunction with Imperial College Jazz and Rock
society
Date: Saturday October 27th
Time: Midday-Midnight
Location: Imperial College Union, South Kensington, London
Venue is a large room regularly used as a gigging venue with in built stage
and lighting rig. It also has a bar next door. London street map. (More
detailed directions to follow)
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=526570&Y=179485&arrow=Y&title=Imperial+College+Union+Location
Starts 12 pm-we have to clear the venue by 11.20 pm. Bar and food next door.
(we are not going to open the bar in the venue as it will give us more space
for the guitar gallery)
Web updates on the
http://www.jemsite.com Forum
http://www.jemfest.com
http://www.ibanezregister.com
REGISTRATION
will be via email due to the the conditions by which we get the venue and
backline/PA for FREE
So to register:
Email me (jemfestuk@yahoo.com) the following:
Name
Address (and name and address of anybody you are bringing with you) Guitars
and/or gear you are bringing. It would help for organisation purposes if you
include the serial numbers of your guitars.
The names and addresses will only be used for purposes of jemfest.
We have a limit of 100 people from outside of college. So you need to register
before you come. I don't know if we will have places on the day.
Please try and register by September 28th. Sooner the better obviously!
ACCOMMODATION
Imperial College have given me a list of cheap hotels (August 2000 prices
£20-£75) and a nearby Youth Hostel. If I can get an idea of the numbers coming
I can talk to the Accommodation office at Imperial College and maybe get a
block booking which will be cheaper for everyone.
TRAVEL
The first post in this thread shows where the venue is. If you have any
particular travel questions email me and I will tell you the best way to get
from Heathrow, Gatwick etc. Kings Cross, Euston, Waterloo to the venue. Are
you flying? ideas here
-->http://jemsiteforum.com/board/topic.cgi?forum=9&topic=34
(How to transport a guitar to Jemfest for flyers)
PARKING
Obviously London is expensive for parking but if you are driving then you will
be able to park within College grounds. If you arrive Saturday and leave
Sunday, i.e. 24hrs parking will be about £25.
PRE-JEMFEST EVENT
Friday night October 26th piss-up in the Intrepid Fox in Soho (rock night club
later too if you are up for it!) if you want to come I will email you
directions-tell me when you send me your registration email.
GUITAR GALLERY
Will happen 12-3pm while we set up. Tell me what you are bringing when you
register.
BANDS
Three confirmed so far (Cereal Killer, One Less than None, Dead Karma), two
more in progress (Spain and Sweden). I will put details up and websites when
everything is sorted.
Jemfest teaser...we are inviting some famous guitarists-and no don't email me
to ask who they are!
JAM SESSIONS
There will be two, so that is two two hour slots of jamming. The earlier one
will be the opportunity for you to bring a backing track to play along to (and
show your skills!). But we need suggestions for jam songs so post them here
http://jemsiteforum.com/board/topic.cgi?forum=9&topic=74
If you tell me what jam songs you want to do my band will learn or at least
try to learn them for October. ;)
THE RAFFLE
All proceeds from this going to Make a noise foundation (MANF). #1 Open to
everybody including everybody who cant make it to London for Jemfest
A swirl paint job from Darren (ATD)
http://www.abouttimedesigns.com
A body modification or body strip from Brian at UniversalJems
http://www.universaljems.com
(Thanks!!! Darren and Brian you guys are stars!)
To enter the raffle you have to make a donation in to MANF (I will sort out
the details of how to do this) and mail me a postcard/index card to go in the
raffle box.
Email me (jemfestuk@yahoo.com) for my address.
#2 Raffle tickets-proceeds to MANF
Prizes will include
T-shirts from Darren and Jemfest
Goodies from Kevan
CDs from Ricky Garcia (if you don't win one you can buy one!) CDs from Jeremy
Krull (if you dont win one you can buy one!) Steve Vai picks and more goodies
to follow
(Thanks!!! Darren, Kevan, Ricky, Jeremy, Vegard you guys are stars!)
JEMFEST 2001 LONDON UK T-SHIRTS
Thanks to Kevan, Darren and my credit card we will have Jemfest t-shirts on
sale.
Proceeds from the sale of the t-shirts will go to MANF
WANTED
Does anybody have a van in London that we could use on Saturday morning and
Sunday morning for transporting gear to and from the venue?
CREW and ORGANISERS
I have already had some great offers of help from people e.g. Sound engineer
(Cheers Ed and Pete), and Steve, James, Jono, Jerry, Mikey. If you want to
help out on the day let me know, we need people to be on the door to sort
registration, looking after the guitar gallery, people to help with stage set
up and band changeovers, raffle and t-shirt sales, you know the kind of thing!
If you are doing any of these things you wont miss any of the action!
We need someone with a digital camera to be jemfest camera person--SORTED,
Cheers Barry!
So there you go, if I have missed or overlooked something then let me know.
Best wishes
Simon
Thanks again to Stuart, Darren, Brian, Kevan, Glen, Steve, Jono, Jerry, James, Ed, David, Julio, Esa, the guys at IC, Barry, Ricky, Jeremy, Vegard, Mikey.
26.07.2001.09:06BST
Date: Saturday October 27th
Time: Midday-Midnight
Location: Imperial College Union, South Kensington, London
Venue is a large room regularly used as a gigging venue with in built stage
and lighting rig. It also has a bar in it! Click
here for London street map. (More detailed directions to follow)
Accommodations: at the moment it will be up to each participant to organize
themselves but I will get hold of the contact details of some hotels near
the venue.
We are using a university venue and some equipment so we will be subject to
a few regulations (I am trying to find out exactly what these are). Mainly
that everyone coming will have to register with the organizers and my
contact from the university. This way we can have the room, PA, two
full band's worth of gear, and everything else for FREE.
We may also be able to get even more PA stuff and even a sound crew-I am
working on this.
Official Jemfest t-shirts should be available-I am working on this at the
moment.
Following on from the great US jemfests we will have:
Web page updates and registrations will be located on Jemfest.com
and also at ibanezregister.com
and of course here on jemsite.
all suggestions and help welcomed, hope to see you there!
Cheers
Simon
s.wilkins@rocketmail.com
Thanks to Gabe, Bill, Kevan, Glen, Jerry, & Darren
16.07.2001.11:30BST
Mini-jemfest-UK will be now known as 'Jemfest 2K1.5 (UK)' Venue is: Imperial
College Union South Kensington London Saturday October 27th midday to
midnight(ish) Website will be a section in jemfest.com (courtesy of Gabe and
Kevan) & Ibanezregister (courtesy of Jerry). I shall be sorting out some
more 'fest details in the near future. If you want to be directly involved
in helping out with the organization (and haven't already told me so) then
drop me a line at s.wilkins@rocketmail.com
Best wishes, Simon
It looks like this event is going to happen. Details to follow or chat with Simon on the jesmite.com forum. Thanks for the great work Simon. Hats off to ya bro.