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Robin Gee

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:35:26 +1300

Hey..we're still smiling!!

Sacha

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:12:12 +1300

Herald story about Splorin with kids.

llew 40

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:18:41 +1300

Damn straight

Wammo

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:41:27 +1300

I'd sure as hell like to go back to Splore this weekend.

Jen Ferguson

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:24:58 +1300

Mine too! As you say, the way J Star bounced around the Sleng Teng was a thing of great beauty and genius – it goes down as one of the great "yeeeeahh!"s of all time. The pleasure, the privilege was ours... :)

Russell Brown

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:22:44 +1300

Who are the Band of Bards from Aotearoa New Zealand?

Well, I personally know five of them ...

I trust they will find a way to have a good time after the reading too.

nzlemming

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:17:02 +1300

That could be the genesis of something...

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:34:59 +1300

Arts threadjack...
Speaking of kiwi arts events, next week in New York City an intrepid band of New Zealand poets will be reading works by New Zealand poets at a live poetry event...
Tuesday 28th Feb, 6.30pm at Saatchi & Saatchi HQ, 375 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014.
Who are…

Russell Brown

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:47:14 +1300

This is unfortunately a common occurrence. Hopefully one day very soon events will realise that many of their audience/clients will be trying to access the site on their smartphone on the day and that it needs to be a lot easier to navigate. And no, it doesn’t need a separate…

nzlemming

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:02:39 +1300

Also, unless you've been so clever with your Flash stuff (which means taking as much time over it as you would with HTML), then Google has real difficulty indexing it.

Eediot

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:55:52 +1300

"The one big thing I’d change? The awful, disfunctional Flash-based Splore website,"
This is unfortunately a common occurrence. Hopefully one day very soon events will realise that many of their audience/clients will be trying to access the site on their smartphone on the day and that it needs to be…

Suzanne McNamara

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:50:28 +1300

Hi Robin, greed is not the reason – it was simply because we had a new camping manager, a new parking crew, some new front of house etc. It's a huge job to process that many people. yes we had increased the number of people but we have to because…

lotech

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:29:05 +1300

Greed is easily thrown around but its just not the case. Suffice to stay we'll be meeting in the coming weeks (sleep first) and working through everything that worked and everything that didn't.

As one of the many HODs putting on the festival I personally would like to thank the…

Randomplay

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:06:23 +1300

My faves were Sundays Hermitude set on the mainstage and a Hori Buzz, maybe because I could remember them best :-) On that note, great post RB, awesome to have all these semi memories come sifting back!

I simply don't understand anyone going home early sunday, I like to stretch…

Russell Brown

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:55:12 +1300

It was great to party and swim with you, Mr Brown – that J Star set will remain one of my highlight memories (albeit a little fuzzy by that time) for a long time.

I loved the way that I kept running into you guys. And our high-five when the…

Paul Campbell

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:55:04 +1300

I spent the weekend at Mysore too, the palace is cool .... oh wait .....

Hennik Hassett

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:46:51 +1300

Fantastic festival all-round.
If I had to complain about one thing (and here it is), it would be poor sound at the Hooha Hut. Given there were international DJ's playing there, the pathetic sound system the festival provided was an embarrassment. Earl Gateshead had issues with one turntable not working…

Jen Ferguson

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:49:52 +1300

It was great to party and swim with you, Mr Brown – that J Star set will remain one of my highlight memories (albeit a little fuzzy by that time) for a long time. Once again, Splore was a top weekend – congratulations to Amanda and her crew.

Elise Sterback

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:22:26 +1300

Cheers for posting the photo of our Fluxus Funhouse performance at the Portavilion Russell. If you have any more pics I'd be very grateful if you could send them through – I was too busy miming to take any!

Jonty

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:03:42 +1300

Speaking of "festivals I have loved", some of your readers may be old enough to remember the grand-daddy of 'em all — http://www.nambassa.com/

Russell Brown

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:44:55 +1300

The clean part of the beach on Sunday morning.

Russell Brown

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:42:49 +1300

Also, the only reason we left before lunch on Sunday was because we didn’t want to swim after the lifeguard told us there were “floaters” because some boats had emptied their sewage tanks. I’d be interested to know if there are any consequences for the boarties and/or the festival as…

Robin Gee

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:42:18 +1300

Nambasa, Sweetwaters, The Gathering even Rhythm & Vines and now my first Splore... they all have their arrival issues and loo nightmares... often suffering the same fate.. getting a little greedy and taking on more punters than they can cope with. Let's hope Splore can retain it's composure.
It was a…

Russell Brown

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:41:08 +1300

We took our 8 year old son, and while festival-as-parents was a very different experience (should one let one’s 8 year old watch burlesque?),

Heh. The girls from our camp complained mightily when one of the dads insisted on watching some of the burlesque:

"He made us watch prostitutes dancing!…

Ana Simkiss

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:38:04 +1300

the fire engine shuttle was a bit of a racket! $1+ per passenger, about 25 people per trip, four trips an hour at least...that's a bit more than "covering costs" as they claimed.
I don't really mind – it's fine to make money but let's be honest about it!

I…

Mark Easterbrook

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:34:53 +1300

We took our 8 year old son, and while festival-as-parents was a very different experience (should one let one's 8 year old watch burlesque?), the way Splore is set up and run made it safe, fun and an awesome family experience.

Highlights for me were the wristband currency system, the…

llew 40

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:24:52 +1300

I’d suggest the number of cars parked in the camping areas might have something to do with it.

Possibly, although we arrived very early Friday morning (thoroughly recommended for a stress-free set-up) and were clearly told we had to move the cars once set-up in the family camping area. However,…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:16:24 +1300

take me to the waita...
Maori standards set to a ska rhythm. Waita and the music of Jamaica usually meet in a roots reggae style, but I now wonder if it was meant to be a jump-up ska beat all along.
I felt a real surge of happiness as I…

Joe Wylie

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:53:59 +1300

Great silhouettes & clouds banner pic.

Russell Brown

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:42:06 +1300

This is a bit of a cock up given they knew how many people were going to turn up! If I had to guess why they ran out of space, I’d suggest the number of cars parked in the camping areas might have something to do with it.

Yeah, I'm…

Ana Simkiss

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:36:19 +1300

waits of up to four hours for pre-entry booze searches ...

I was in that queue. We arrived at 3:45 just as they stopped letting anyone through. Searches were not the reason, I was told that they had simply run out of campsites and carparks and had to sort something…

Russell Brown

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:07:06 +1300

And did anyone else see the glowing stick figure people and Vospertron dudes on Saturday night? Whoa. Just whoa.

We saw them away up the beach as we walked back from the hut on Saturday night — it was like an apparition.

I've also got a video clip of Peter…

James Millar

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:36:36 +1300

Ah Splore, I'm still glowing :)

Highlights: The Hooha Hut, pretty much any time. Watching brilliant sets from The Nudge and Ahoribuzz on a mellow Sunday under a shady tree on the hill above the main stage – the best music of the festival IMO. And did anyone else see…

Russell Brown

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:15:56 +1300

My experience with big commercial festivals was Glade in the UK. No queue of any size to get in, but had separate parking and needed to haul everything about 1km in the pouring rain.

The last Glastonbury I went to (1990), they changed the traffic flow around the farm and…

merc

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:13:36 +1300

Waiting in the terribly managed traffic at the entrance gate we were told Erykah Badu was held up by the over-full parking areas and the under staffed booze checks.

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:55:59 +1300

For a bit of quiet and comfort at festivals, I recommend a camper.

My experience with big commercial festivals was Glade in the UK. No queue of any size to get in, but had separate parking and needed to haul everything about 1km in the pouring rain. Also, BYO (& licensed),…

Ben Curran

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:34:03 +1300

It's a grand event, to be sure. Getting there at 8am on Friday means the queue only takes about an hour to get through and you get a whole extra day. And the best way to finish, I've found is to leave late on Sunday and stop for ice cream…

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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:34:03 +1300

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