Tag Archives: music

Are Corporate Events Ever Romantic? And Should They Be?

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The event industry is never one to shy away from a theme, but romance seems like a strange one to be tackling in a corporate environment.

Will Harry Potter Events Still Have the Magic Touch Next Year?

By , Thursday, 7 July 2011, 11:54 am Be the first to comment

Entertainmentus
Agentus Corporatem Eventus! That, in case you were wondering, was how we
summon acts for Events and sometimes (often around Christmas) we shout Themium Harry-Potterius! put some
glasses and a scarf on a magician and generally cash in on people’s love of
what is – let’s not forget – a children’s book.
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The Harm From Worthy Farm – Glastonbury Vs. the Events Industry

By , Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 11:04 am Be the first to comment

Glastonbury Festival

Last weekend was a little more scrabbly for us than usual, the reason being that many of our acts are plying their trade at the UK’s most famous festival.

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What’s In a Name? The Perils of Naming an Act

By , Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 8:28 am Be the first to comment

Anyone who, in their youth, has gathered together three or
four of their adolescent  friends in the
garage of their parents’ house to form a band has no doubt been faced with the
toughest question of all – not “What should we wear?”, “Who should be the
singer?” or even “What will we sound like?” No, the most important question of
all is “What should we be called?”

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The Band with No Name… Let’s give them one!

By , Thursday, 26 May 2011, 10:43 am Be the first to comment

 

Earlier on this week, we auditioned a new covers band. Nothing new there you might think – we’re always auditioning covers bands, but this one had two distinguisghing features.

 

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What AFC Wimbledon Can Teach Us About Entertainment at Events

By , Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 10:22 am Be the first to comment

 

 

AFC Wimbledon may seem like an unlikely topic for a blog post at Event Magazine, especially with my well documented Arsenal Fandom. What you may not know is that a certain Young Sternberg happens to be in the Youth Academy at the recently promoted club and with the Dons’ ascension to the heady heights of the Football League I can now begin planning my retirement (Provided the boy has some money left over from all the super injunctions that he may or may not be allowed to file… but lets not get ahead of ourselves.)

  

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Tactically Tacky – The Eurovision Song Contest

By , Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 11:23 am Be the first to comment

 

 

 

 

Saturday Night saw the return of that trundling juggernaut of bad taste The Eurovision Song Contest in which we sneer and laugh at those tasteless foreigners for their musical choices whilst surpressing the niggling truth that the UK will never be able to secure the votes of the other entrants thanks to our increasingly frosty relationship with… pretty much everyone.   

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Headshot Hell: The Promotional Photo Arms Race

By , Friday, 13 May 2011, 9:24 am 1 Comment

 

 

 

We’re all about to go through the squirming, fidgeting, flop sweating, hair flattening and all round excruciating process of having our photographs taken for our new website. Certain members of staff seem to have gone through the 5 stages of grief; Denial (“People don’t need to know what we look like, we don’t need them”), Anger (“It’s your fault for starting this stupid company!”) , Bargaining (“Perhaps we could have caricatures instead?”), Depression (“I’m going to have my eyes half shut and a double chin”) and finally Resignation (“Everyone can see my face when I’m walking around anyway.”)

  

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A Glossary of Meaningless Entertainment Words

By , Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 3:56 pm 2 Comments

  

 

 

Every day we have phone calls and emails littered with vague, near-meaningless terms in regards to events. Motivational buzz-words like ‘synergy’ and ‘blue sky’ have become punchlines in their own right. But in the booking of Entertainment, there are a number of specific terms and phrases that repeatedly crop up whose meanings are slippery.

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Breaking the W.C Fields Rule

By , Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 10:55 am Be the first to comment

  Kids Pirate Party

 

 

We’ve all, at some point, quoted W.C.Fields’ famous piece of showbiz advice: “Never work with Children or Animals” but in practice it’s a rule we frequently disregard. It never did the Chimney Sweeping Industry any harm after all. But in the carefully managed and controlled world of entertainment (and by extension events) there is no room for small dribbling, leg humping, mewing, biting bundles of unpredictability… or animals.

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