Mad Ferret, Review

Review of live performance/Review of whole process

As the promoter and organizer of the event I believe that the night was a good achievement and that all the bands were at a good standard for easy listening and something that everyone could appreciate. On the night we had four bands on the bill with “Catfish and the Bottlemen” as our headliners, after a huge struggle trying to find and book the right headline band this is the band we could afford to accommodate and one which was willing to play for us, coming all the way from Wales. In my opinion the band was a grate headliner and put a good show on for the crowd that turned up for them and the support acts. The whole show they put on from the musicality and the sheer vide the front man gave of was positive from start to finish, they were a pleasing band to watch and tried their best to please what I thought was a tough crowd. 

The support band that was on second to last was “Flight of Arrows”, A local band that put a great show on and a band that the local crowd obviously liked, setting them up for the headline act. I thought It was good as unlike some nights I have been to, a good number of the crowd stayed for the headline act and didn’t clear of as is sometimes the case after it get’s past 11:00 and there is the smallest number of people in as there has been all night, but this wasn’t the case and I thought they did a great job of playing and sounded great. 

The band that was on before “Flight of Arrows” was my band “The Escobars”, another Preston based band that I have only just joined in the past few months. Although as a band “The Escobars” hadn’t played a gig in preston for over a year I thought that the new set that we have produced when’t down well with the audience and as the drummer of the band thought we did the best we could for our first gig back from a very long break from the music scene in Preston. The feedback that we have had as a band has been good and we will try to use it to make our sound much more defined and use it for our own good. In my opinion we had a very good slot in the lineup, on second from the start going on before “Flight of Arrows”, the pub was very busy at this point and I feel we had a good reception from our audience. 

This brings me to our opening band of the night “The Smitten Ones” a band based in Southport, these were a great band to open the night up and set a good atmosphere for the rest of the night. In my opinion they were better than I expected them to be after only hearing recordings of them and not seeing them live before so I was pleasantly surprised by them which was a good thing. Although I have previously heard that they was told to cut there set down by the sound man at the Ferret I thought it was good and they played for long enough as It stood. 

Over all I thought that the night was a success, there was plenty of people in the pub, there was a range of good bands on and there was no disruption or trouble from any of our guests that night, although when Satans Slaves walked in during “The Smitten Ones” set I did wonder what was going on for a moment. 

This second page is a review of the whole process leading up the our event and the good point and the bad ones. 

Here is a print screen image of us trying to get a quote or possible booking of the band “Dead Sons”. In the end the band decided that they weren’t touring during the time of our event as couldn’t do the gig so we had to move on trying to book another headliner. 

Here is the next email we sent to a band called “Sound of Guns”, asking if they would be interested in headlining our event, this also turned out to be a no go. 

In the end we got our headline band that was “Catfish and the Bottlemen”, here is an email we sent for the Arc to publish for promotion. 

These are just some of the questions, that Adam put together for the interview in the Arc.

This was the emails sent from Craig Vegas the manager of “Catfish” agreeing a fee for the night. This was our down fall, as we made a loss on the night loosing £25 each. We are still waiting to see wether we will get any money back from the Mad Ferret. Other than that point the lead up to our event was quite stressful at times, trying to book a headliner was the most frustrating bit of the whole project and I am pleased with the band we booked. 

You can see though these screen shots that we put allot of effort into booking headline bands and also the smitten ones. We were keen to put a good gig on with a band that will hopefully please the punters and I feel that we managed to do so. The only regret is not getting our money back, but there is still a possibility of it yet, you can see how we made our loss in our budget forecast. On a whole I think we all played our fair share in putting together a good gig with all our ideas going into each email and conversion that has been evidenced, there was a good team feel about putting this event on and I think we did a good job of it.