No doubt you'll be getting your pm's thanking you for the support, the same as what mand and I did when we foolishly backed the palais theory, and no doubt with those pm's, the comments of how we are such tyrants!! they do read whats on here without a doubt and of course still post blatently on events that they are attending.
Indeed I know of some, who would have been prepared to put on the palais as was originally wanted, in the form of a proper dayer with no live appearances. But they got whiff of this and wanted the glory and went into it head down, wanting the glory, On the issue of the live acts, they were offered the very best of support and advice from those experienced in putting on much bigger events but turned it down with venom!.
They deliberately and blatently sold tickets on the weekend of Prestatyn, prior to the announcement on the Monday that the event would not be taking place!! If memory serves me right too they were supposed to have been djaying at a nite somewhere that weekend and let them down without a word and went off flogging their ill fated tickets.
They would have known without a doubt that there was no way on earth that they could have afforded Little Anthoney let alone Ruby Andrews (who incidently was going to be approached to sing Just loving you at said wedding) at the price of 15 quid a ticket, unless of course they had plenty of dosh in the first instance to back it, which of course is evident now that they haven't, but something which I think many were led to believe they in fact had!
If they had the integrity which many on this scene have, they should have held up their hands and said we fecked up, we cant afford the live acts so lets just go with the dayer as was originally intended, if you bought tickets just to see the live acts then have your money back, that would have been the end of it there and then and the dayer could have gone ahead as planned.
As you know this was not to be the case and the posts from her (betty boop aka Tracy) left a lot to be desired, in reply to those whom had every right to question.
Lets look at the hard facts too
Lots of people left without a refund, not just the odd 30 quid, but accomodation that had been booked, days planned off work etc etc we are talking hundreds of pounds on this collectively. The original post from the LATI musician indicated way back then that no money had changed hands, Ruby Andrews management had no knowledge of anyone in Nottingham, the palais had the deposit payed and nothing else, advertising in the Notts post was a freebie, due to TK Maxx's best dressed couple winners enjoying the lime light yet again by putting on this fantastic dayer. As I was recently informed there are lots of unpaid refunds out there, not just the ones that post in our little world here on soul source, but the wider picture, like I said before we are talking hundreds of pounds.
Every promotor no matter how big or small puts their head on the block when organising events and the buck stops with them, they are accountable for their actions no matter how 'nice' they project themselves to be.
Im sorry but in my very honest opinion, they have failed to respond to anyone no matter how the messages pm's or posts are written, and have blatently issued the middle finger to all those that have lost their money, by attending venues, shopping for expensive items etc etc, whilst owing a lot of dosh to others on the same scene, not really my definition of what constitutes 'a soulie'!
Well Im going to give my natwest cheque one last try as its NHS payday tomorrow, but if they for one think that by me representing it one last time and it perhaps bouncing (im forever the optomist) that will be the end of it, then think again, despite many of us geographically being miles apart, its still a relatively small scene, and we will meet and I will get my money back and would encourage everyone to do the same!.
The idea