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About Me



I'm an ex-Traveller turned Showman, running Quality Event Services with my best mate, and a small but perfectly formed crew. We are a small independent production company specialising in funky, intimate party spaces for festivals and outdoor events. For the past five years I have been running Eco-Arcadia, the World's First Biodiesel-powered Pinball Arcade, and other small intimate venues and party spaces, like Wonderland (Bestival), Club 42 (Secret Garden Party), and Shambala's crew bar. I also dry-hire out our marquees and sound system both privately, and at festivals and outdoor events throughout the U.K.
For next summer, I have put a new space together called 'Come and Play', with space for 300+. Essentially an expansion of Eco-Arcadia, in a larger space, with a stage as well as the decks and the games.
I have just gained my NCPLH level II, and should hopefully be fully licenced to run bars at events by the start of 2008.
Over the last 18 years I've had a go at most things in connection with festivals, parties, and outdoor events: I can put up most tents, marquees, yurts, geodesic domes etc; do site crewing and management; health and safety; site plumbing; stage building and managing; bar and cafe work; band road managing; and I intend to get a forklift licence, and up my class III driving licence to a class II in the near future.
As a dj, I play deep, funky, underground House, and am a founder member of the Pollen dj collective in Brighton. -Check the section from one of my recent mixes on the player.
I also have a wide repertoire of other styles I like to play out ranging from Ska, Soul, Funk, Disco, Jive and Swing; via Balkan Beats, Gypsy, and Folk music; to Punk, Indie, and unusual eclectic Rock.
When not doing the festivals I work as local crew for bands coming to venues in Brighton; and dj wherever and whenever I can.
I have a wonderful 12yr old boy, who I am finally starting to get to spend more time with. Hooray!
If you want to know more, please read my blog.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who share my interests.
Anyone who likes the look of me, finds me interesting, or thinks we might be able to benefit one another somehow.
Anyone who might be interested in employing me for any of my various skills.
If you do write to me, at least mention something in my profile you like or can relate to, or I'll assume you're just another spammer and block you.

My Blog

Invitation to bands and performers for Glastonbury, and other festivals this summer.

This summer I’m running a venue called ’Come and Play’ at Glastonbury, and hopefully various other festivals yet tbc. Basically it’s my pinball arcade evolved into a larger mar...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:24:00 GMT

My life so far...

I was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in March, 1967, to a war-reporter father, and a teaching mother. We moved from there when I was a baby, to New York, and then Paris, before finally settling in west Lond...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:53:00 GMT