Urgent: VJ needed for Aug 8th at Big Chill Festival

[StrictlyandLowdown]

Looking for a VJ assistant for an Australian AV act who is playing at Big Chill Festival.
The date is August 7th, but you would be required for a technical rehearsal on August 6th. This is a paid job.

JOB IS FILLED. THANKING YE!

It's a very original, funny show. Sam creates most his own material which is essentially recontextualizing TV, movies and internet.
He creates beats and edits video, and has mad skillz on turntables! Many AV acts such as DJ Yoda and Hextatic have been playing his creations within their set.

You can see some of the show here:
http://vimeo.com/10794198
http://vimeo.com/9692020
Monkey video remix YouTube- ' Where's My Monkey? ' Parker
His brand new video remix YouTube- Super Visual Bobsled Party

[deepvisual]

Sounds like a job for deepvisual (http://www.deepvisual.com/Work.html)...

[Liquidmetro]

Would love to do this one. Have all the kit. Bristol based so could do Cheeba's new AV night too. Unfortunately I'm at a wedding on the 8th! Pah.

I'll be at the AV night in Bristol on the 10th hopefully!

Edit - at a stag do on the 10th. Why do these things always clash! Meet you next time Sampology & Gary(?) ;)

[KidKDN]

it is time like this that i wish i wasn't in the USA.... well there are other times... but this is one of them ..

I nearly died laughing at the cool runnings remix lol silly black people... I am Jamaican btw so don't take it as i am hating!

[jimmyogenic]

we're already at the chill, so if someone wants to do it and needs bits of kit (ie lipstick cams etc) then we can supply...

[jimmyogenic]

Sounds like a job for deepvisual (http://www.deepvisual.com/Work.html)...

do it deep!

we're already there with mr scratchpole in tow :)

[deepvisual]

well, so far it looks like I'm in.
in which case you will be buying me a pint.. I'll tell you why when I see you...

[jimmyogenic]

well, so far it looks like I'm in.
in which case you will be buying me a pint.. I'll tell you why when I see you...

sounds like a plan.. just this afternoon been to makro to stock up on red stripe and rum :)

[Scratchpole]

Cool!
Rum:lick:

[vdmoKstaTi]

Aussies taking over ;) hehe... classic snippets with Peter Helliar doing a plug for Sampology... he is a known comedian in Australia for those who are not aware..

Very busy week-end that one fr me.. and Im not in UK. Good to see Rach and Ken getting themselves out there into International market though.. go go go guys!


friday 6th - Ministry of Sound - Trance Nation tour with TyDi and Marlo @ Gilligans Cairns
saturday 7th - My weekly vj residency @ Freakquency AV nights with Legohead @ Heritage Cairns

8th I'll be catching up on sleep...:)

[StrictlyandLowdown]

Thanks for all the replies and offers, the job has been snatched! :o
Wish I could be there!

[psychomonkey]

Just got back on it after the birth of my second baby, had a couple of months releaxing now ready to get back on the visual tip gutted i missed this sounds and looks great.

Wack up some clips after the event looks like a great night out. Psycho Monkey :D

[deepvisual]

Can't believe it.
I'm ill.

will need someone to do this after all..

anybody still interested PM me.

[RayV]

First and most important: Feel Good, Doctor DV
i'm in.
[...if only i wasn't so many miles away in this hot soup we currently living at, here]

[Scratchpole]

We have got it covered with a little help from Dr Mo.
No video on main stage tho! WTF :confused:

[sleepytom]

unkle benn putting the mean into festival republic.

big chill is dead in case you hadn't realised


Oh and BTW StrictlyandLowdown DJ Yoda is playing your monkey remix in his AV set at the moment.

[evomedia]

big chill is dead in case you hadn't realised

Why do you say it's dead tom?

I haven't been for a few years, but always looks to be doing well...

As for DJ Yoda, does he pay for any of his footage except his intro clip, last time I saw him it was all pretty dire quality clips he seemed to have aquired from god knows where. Great DJ, but video show was very disappointing

[psychomonkey]

Just got back from wales, checked the forum, see its all covered, if anybody else gets sick give me a shout, have a good one and get well soon

Psycho Monkey :D

[StrictlyandLowdown]

Oh and BTW StrictlyandLowdown DJ Yoda is playing your monkey remix in his AV set at the moment.


it's sampology's remix, and yes he knew. hextatic also dropping sams stuff somewhere (not sure where). yay for positivity haha..

[sleepytom]

Re: Yoda - actually his show has got a lot better in the past year. the video is much much tighter than it was and he's got some great juxtapositions / AV puns going on (Michael Jackson footage with the intro to "sweet child of mine" was my favourite bit at Camp Bestival, AV paedophile jokes at a kids festival haha) Yeah its pop culture mashup and so its never going to impress the artsy "make your own clips" brigade, but I like it and its certainly popular with punters (biggest crowd all weekend in the Big Top)

Re: The Big Chill - the Big Chill was sold to Festival Republic (formally Mean Fiddler) after last years event. They have made huge cuts to the budget and have no interest in booking VJs any more. This year there is no video at all on the main stage, a real shame given that Adam and Jim had spent years building up the video, improving it year on year.

Re: People playing other people stuff. - The AV scene has always been more open to this than VJs are. Lots of people play music videos as part of their set and playing underground remixed stuff is just an extension of this. Nobody in the audience thinks that Yoda makes all his own footage, he got one of the biggest cheers when he dropped Hyperactive by Lasse Gjertsen - youtube geekery at its best :) Anyway the point i'm making is that most people who produce AV remixes are quite happy when they get played out, it's just good to know that other people like something enough to incorporate it into their show.

[Pesh]

a real shame given that Adam and Jim had spent years building up the video, improving it year on year.
this... real shame, Big Chill was one of the few festivals to actually hire in high end gear AND pay for decent visuals across all the stages.

[Scratchpole]

Sampology's show went well! He is a VERY talented young man.
Good night was had by all in the Igloo, rammed out the whole time.

The dome projections were a bit sketchy, five projectors with a 4x3 image on each and a Solid Steel background/logos. No edge blending or proper geometry correction, they were patching with vvvv on the day of the show! (Why this had not been prepared in advance I don't know!) By the end of the night two projectors were on the blink and were dead by the next day, it is a very dusty site and someone had forgotten to replace the filters....

Overall impressions of the big chill from the inside:
'It ain't what it used to be'
They (CT) had installed decent projectors/screens in the dance tents and we (As Described) put VJ rigs in so if any acts turned up with VJ's they could just plug in and go. I think only one act brought someone with them.

The festival organisers realised on Thursday that they had not booked any VJ's, asking us if we can do anything upon which they were told how much it would cost. They even asked if they could have some DVD's to put on loop! .....NO!
So they got nowt from us, but there was someone on the stage crew who knocked up a couple of discs, hmm cool! same visuals on three stages at once, Ooh and some very average camera mixing from the CT guys. Stage manager on one went to the trouble of knocking out a b+w still name card for each act, brilliant!
The field manager may be familiar to some of you from Glastonbury dance arena, and gladly boasts of employing VJ's for the whole weekend for £150, well done! I shall not mention any names! (Shame on you)

No video on the main stage, bloody stoopid! Everyone loves to look at a famous dot onstage in the distance eh? CT were only told it was not to be, days before the show.

As Described also programmed visuals for the Lazyland/Enchanted Garden stage for the weekend, one part of the site which retained an essence of previous BC's. I really enjoyed my two and a half hour set on Thursday night with Adrian Sherwood, enough time to really get in the flow but not too long.
Sunday night came around and two acts I have performed with before, Appleblim and Tomb Crew were playing on the same stage so I could not let them go with just a name on the screen, think I made them look considerably better than other acts ;)

So as a VJ/tech it actually was very Chilled :)
In my opinion the festival has lost a very important ingredient, visuals were the unique selling point. I wonder if they will ever pick up the baton again.

[deepvisual]

suggest everyone posts on the big chill forum (http://forum.bigchill.net/) saying how crap the visuals were this year...

I am of course, gutted that I missed not just this, but almost the whole summer after a month long chest infection refused to get better.
being strung out on codeine and coughing yourself to sleep every night is not my idea of fun..
and I'm still not over it

[SteveG]

Nice to actually get a report from one of the festivals Joe...cheers. At least it seems to have gone not to badly for yourself unfortunately echos from others here. Glad you all stuck to your guns and refused to supply. I just don't believe that the festival organisers realised on Thursday that they had forgotten to book VJ's. A calculated risk in the hope you guys would supply more like. Glad you didn't;)

[Scratchpole]

@ Gary: Don't say they were crap, (mine were amazing ;P) just ask, where were they?
@ Steve, no really. They looked at the screens once they were installed and then thought about it!

[Pesh]

The festival organisers realised on Thursday that they had not booked any VJ's, asking us if we can do anything upon which they were told how much it would cost. They even asked if they could have some DVD's to put on loop! .....NO!
So they got nowt from us, but there was someone on the stage crew who knocked up a couple of discs

the exact same thing happened in the main dance tent 2 years ago, Adam and Jim had been trying to get a budget out of the tents organiser to program the VJs for the weekend but he said he'd take care of it. most of the weekend there was the splash screen from a budget DVD player coming out of the projectors :D

last year they coughed up and Adam designed a really nice screen install and it was used properly all weekend. guess it got Melvined.

[psychomonkey]

Its a shame that a lot of the festivals are letting go of the visual side i had seperate gigs lined up last year for festivals over this summer only to be told there was no visual budget anymore.

With the birth of my new girl there was no way i was going to run around the uk for peanuts again.

It sounds like with the help of people like Joe the big chill event manged to be more than it could have been visually, and without him and others running around to support people they know and like the visuals would have been names on a loop on a standerd media player window drop.

I'm getting more bookings for club nights and indoor events these days which is a shame cause i like the festival vibe and it does enable you to spread your visual message and name further afield.

Well done Joe and all the vj's at big chill for holding up the banner for all the hard working vj's at there.

Oh and get well soon Gary, and thanks for asking to cover, roll on the 2011 festivals after the promoters relaise people deserve more than pretty paterns and names on screens. Psycho Monkey

[MrJustin]

So... the Big Hill, eh?? This festival was disappointing at best. I commented early on that it felt like i was at reading only to look at someone's program and see that the festival had been bought by festival republic.

"ahah! ... it all makes sense!!"

Very surprised in the lack of visuals, sorry, Joe, never got chance to make it over to see you VJing... i have no doubt that you guys did a great job there, im only sorry i didnt get to see to comment on it. What little i did see elsewhere (massive attack excluded) i can only hope was being done by lampies without a clue, because if it was the work of someone claiming to be a VJ then it was an embarrassment.

Thats enough of a rant, I've been struck with an inexplicable urge to go and buy a pint of Carlsberg.

[jimmyogenic]

this year was certainly different!

very dissapointed with the visual side of things, especially after last years crowning triumph :(

Onwards and upwards though.. got the festinho festival in a few weeks which is bound to be amazing!

deep: i'm interested though, what do i owe you a beer for ;)

[deepvisual]

deep: i'm interested though, what do i owe you a beer for ;)

I've been dreadfully sick for nearly 5 weeks now after getting bronchitis while doing a load out in some sweaty bunker for some guy whose name escapes me...

[SteveG]

Is that those bunkers we used to keep the Anthrax in :D

[PCProject]

I've been dreadfully sick for nearly 5 weeks now after getting bronchitis while doing a load out in some sweaty bunker for some guy whose name escapes me...

Thats the sign of a good fever.
Have you considered giving it to Steve (not G the other one)?

[jimmyogenic]

well i spent a good 12 hours in the sweaty bunker and adam spent 4 days, no signs of bronchitus :(

sorry to hear that deep, and i'll buy you a lemsip/codeine cocktail next time i see you

[deepvisual]

it was just a mild cough when i went in, the damp didn't work in my favour..
anyway, gave me something to moan about, seeings as the weather has been so nice lately.

[StrictlyandLowdown]

thanks joe for helping sam, he was very grateful

[Scratchpole]

It was really good fun!
Except the walk from one end of site to the other with all the kit at the end of the night, non-existent artist liason. And on the journey I was accused of being his dad! I was not spawning at the age of 12 ffs :]

[sleepytom]

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00071/dad13_71142t.jpg

[Rovastar]

Well I cannot say much more about the visuals at the Big Chill and has been said already. I would have stepped up to help out if needed but if the festival organisers thought it was better to have no visuals/just the artists name instead of paying for VJs then so be it.

Not a visual great experience when it has been for the past 6-7 years that I have been going.

But as Jim says roll on festinho in a weeks time. :)

I missed most of the few VJs there including you Joe Scratchpole I missed your work however I would have cried scab for providing visuals to the other tent on Sunday if I found you. ;)

[deepvisual]

however I would have cried scab for providing visuals to the other tent on Sunday if I found you. ;)

am I dreaming?
talk about role reversal..

[sleepytom]

Comrade Rova is leading the revolution!...

[deepvisual]

I denounce comrade scratchpole as a capitalist roader.

[PCProject]

3rd against the wall after Cameron and Clegg?

[Scratchpole]

Haha, you got me, I admit it: I'm only in it for the money, drugs, women and union bribes!

[Rovastar]

Comrade Rova is leading the revolution!...

:) I thought you might like the scab line. :-)

[Scratchpole]

'84-5 is not forgotten!
South Derbyshire and Notts men deffinately know what it is to be a scab!
http://www.bygonederbyshire.co.uk/stories/8203-Miners-Strike-1984-85/article-1797944-detail/article.html

[jimmyogenic]

:) I thought you might like the scab line. :-)

rova: just got your rider through for festinho. could you check the details below to see if i've missed anything...

- line in, power requirements, CHECK!
- working projector, CHECK!
- decent table at working height, CHECK!
- plethora of dancing girls/boys (sex tbd on the night, depending what mood artist is in) CHECK!
- mung beans, CHECK!
- ephigy of thatcher to burn live, CHECK!
- spinning wheel and yoghurt, CHECK!

;)

[evomedia]

Jim, Rova won't be happy... you missed off

2 Buckets full of cash
1 Sweat monkey
and best check if the Mung beans are enchanted, as he's planning on exchanging them for a cow at the festinho market

[sleepytom]

John and the beanstalk?

[deepvisual]

plus one copy of the Daily Mail

[PCProject]

and wireless access to Have Your Say

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/have_your_say/