RTP-area local music and culture

[djstevo AT wknc.sma.ncsu.edu]

Hey guys,
I figured that I should drop a few words in here, being one of those KNC
people...  quite frankly, I'm unsure as to why the Pour House wasn't
letting people in at 8PM, and I'll be asking tonight to see why.

Part of the reason, I think, was that there were only a limited number of
walk-up tickets available, as there had been quite a run on our online
ticketing system, and we'd made light of this situation over the air and
on our blog.  Naturally, with the kind of draw that that concert demanded
and the relative size of the venue, we stressed purchasing tickets in
advance, and from what most people told me, advance ticketholders were
allowed in ahead of those seeking walk-up tickets.  If that wasn't what
happened and you weren't let in with your advance tickets, then please,
please let us know.

Regarding the simulcast, we must stress that the decision to simulcast was
truly a last-minute affair and, as thus, we weren't able to promote it too
heavily outside of our blog and, of course, on the air.  Our original
plans were to perform airbreaks from the concert and play short snippets
of pre-recorded sets.  However, as the event approached, it became clear
that training DJs to record and playback from our remote transmitter would
be cumbersome and prone to user error.

Thus, due to about 20 solid hours' worth of engineering work between
myself, our sysadmin, and our station engineer, we managed to pull
together a system to allow FCC-compliant live broadcasting (while rescuing
our web/streaming server in the process).  We apologize for not promoting
it further, but the way we saw it was that it'd be an unexpected perk
that'd bring more attention and traffic to the show and the bands playing
it, and I think that that was exactly what happened.

If there were any further issues, or if you'd simply like to sound off on
your experience, good or bad, send me an e-mail and I'd be glad to address
them.  Again, from all of us, we apologize for our shortcomings, and we're
exceptionally grateful to the groups who truly brought the rock this
weekend.
-Stevo
djstevo AT wknc.org

> Polvo was fantastic.  It would have been especially nice had the good
> folks
> at KNC let people know the show was being simulcast on 88.1, which
> apparently only people at the show knew.  I also had an issue with the
> ticket policy, given that when IWTDI played, the room wasn't even half
> full
> but there were 75 people outside dying to get in.
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Todd Morman <tmorman AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> You have to be some kinda real genius to read "top-shelf" in the context
>> of
>> a Jandek collaboration as anything *other* than "the longest history of
>> playing in the widest range of fucked-up bands around."
>>
>> todd so how was Polvo KNC's utterly moronic ticket policies kept me and
>> a
>> pal from the show morman
>>
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