Luke deserves a medal for helming the cut-throat booking fiasco that is the Official Blip Festival Afterparty. Ian and I quit doing that after three years because the stress of people clamoring for a spot and the sudden explosion in 2009 of a million other independent unofficial events competing was too much for us to handle.
Luke = Champion
As one can see above, the attempt by a dozen different people to book shows around Blip Festival without each other's knowledge can lead to huge mess-ups. Both the official 2009 late-night after party and the Hexawe All-Stars shows had a much smaller crowd than expected because in 2009 there was a bigger independent show (pretty much an unofficial 4th day of the festival,) the next day that everyone wanted to go to and last year we had to push Hexawe back late in the week because so many other shows were booked in a trice as soon as the festival dates were mentioned. Hopefully the EINDBAAS show won't suffer for the same reasons. But I have complete faith in the organizers' ability.
Also, some bookers book the same artist for more than one show during Blip week, which I always find a bit unfair but apparently nobody else minds - in fact, our 2009 afterparty ended up with several repeat performers because after we'd booked them it turned out they'd booked other shows for themselves as well. We only solved the problem by insisting that they play very different sets.
