[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: CMKT 4 confirmation for Urbana Mini Maker Faire

Fri Mar 30 03:22:16 UTC 2012

Hey Makers! CMKT4 is coming back to Makerfaire this year! If you missed
this awesome circuit-bending electronic band last year, they're a must see.

They'll be at Makerfaire all day, and hosting a kit building session that
evening in the Makerspace - 6:30-8:30pm. *Members & makers, if you can help
out by hosting the group in the space during this time, please reply. *

Lastly, the band is hoping to find an opportunity to play a show later that
night- at a local venue or house show. *If you have a lead for a house or
venue show, please reply.

*More about CMKT4:
https://www.facebook.com/cmkt4
http://www.reverbnation.com/cmkt4

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CMKT 4 <cmktfour at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: CMKT 4 confirmation for Urbana Mini Maker Faire
To: Sarah Dolinar <sarahdolinar at gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Ritzo <chris.ritzo at gmail.com>, Suzanne Linder <
suzanne.linder at gmail.com>, Brian Duggan <bcdugga at gmail.com>

Hello everyone-

Maker Faire Urbana approaches and we wanted to check-in with everyone
and make sure everything is falling into place.

Our understanding of how our day will go is that Saturday will be
spent at our booth hawking merch.  For the evening, we will host a
kit-building session in Makerspace Urbana from 6:30-8:30pm.  From
there we will be performing somewhere in Urbana-Champaign, either in a
house, venue, or the Makerspace itself (least optimal).  The full band
will be a bit of a squeeze into the Makerspace.

We'd like to nail down a plan for that evening and were hoping one of
you perhaps has a lead for us on that night's performance.  We will
gladly follow any leads, but we were really hoping to hear from
someone in a band, someone who books shows, or who puts on
house-parties.  We will gladly make and distribute fliers all day at
the Maker Faire for anything going on that night.  Please let us know
soon so we can start promoting now.

Also, to answer your question, Sarah, a place to crash Friday night
would be very helpful to us - I don't think we have crashing
accommodations in Peoria, which is where we will be performing Friday.
 We are very easy guests, we feed ourselves and travel with our own
bedrolls, towels, toiletries, etc.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Sarah Dolinar <sarahdolinar at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks, Austin! We're gonna do every thing we can to help find something
for after the show. Otherwise we'll just plan for some beer and pizza and
hacker space-space-rock in Makerspace to close out the Faire. :)
>
> I talked to one of the contacts that I gave you -- Morgan Reisman -- and
he was intrigued. I'm going I forward your note to him and see if he could
connect you with some local house party organizers. Morgan's pretty well
connected to a young underground around here. Personally I'm too old to
ever be invited.... Ha ha.
>
> Brian, you got any more ideas?
>
> More soon,
> Sarah
>
> PS - Austin, you guys need a place to crash Friday night? We need to work
on hooking that up.
>
> On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:11 PM, CMKT 4 <cmktfour at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sarah -
>> I've been the one doing most of the "attempted booking" down in
>> Champaign/Urbana, and, to be honest, it's rather tricky business - I
>> actually don't particularly like it, to be honest ;)  That said, we
>> still would like to make a show happen in the Shampoo-Banana.
>>
>> I understand the complications with the rental of the space now.
>> Although the Makerspace isn't conducive to a performance, we could do
>> a short kit-building workshop in the Makerspace after 6pm, if that's
>> alright, say 630-830pm, and then be on our way for a performance
>> elsewhere.
>>
>> As for the performance elsewhere, we'd love to do it, but nailing one
>> down has seemed harder than it should be.  Perhaps it was the
>> particular date we had before, I'm not sure.  I've definitely
>> contacted these places about booking before and got a pretty cold
>> shoulder.  Are there any places where you or other MF staff have any
>> sway with booking?  Any local bands that you all know that would be
>> good on a bill with us?  It's always easier if you have an existing
>> in-road than cold-calling (er, -emailing) venues.
>>
>> As for booking us for a performance:  we can play anywhere from 30
>> minutes to 2 hours of music.  We play "Hacker-Space-Rock," original
>> rock songs layered with pedal and circuit-bent noises.  Plus a couple
>> of original country songs thrown in for good measure.  We always like
>> to get paid, or at least play for free drinks or food - we will not
>> pay to play.  Also, we have a PA and 3 mics, so we can pretty much set
>> up and play anywhere.
>>
>> If there is a) a venue where we'd be a shoe-in with management, b) a
>> band that would like to play with us and could find a show for us all
>> that night, or c) a house party where we could be the band and people
>> might pay us or buy things from us, any of those options would be
>> preferable to us scrambling to find a show out of the blue at this
>> point.  We can still do that if you guys don't have any leads, I will
>> look over all the calendars at the venues you shared, but I would
>> imagine a lot of those places are already booked for that evening.
>>
>> So, we'll gladly do the booth and the workshop (time and space
>> permitting) at the MF, please keep us posted and let me know your
>> thoughts about a show for that Saturday night.
>> --Austin
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Sarah Dolinar <sarahdolinar at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> Austin,
>>>
>>> Sorry it takes me so long to get back to you! About Saturday evening,
the
>>> bad news is, we only have the space at the IMC rented until 6pm giving
us
>>> time to clean up for the day. That means we couldn't host a separate
>>> performance in the space after the Faire. Makerspace COULD host a
workshop
>>> in their space in the basement of the IMC, but that area is not
conducive to
>>> a performance. But the good news is there are plenty of venues around
town.
>>> I put together a list of contacts for you guys -- Brian Duggan said you
like
>>> to book your own gigs, is that right?
>>>
>>> Radio:
>>> WEFT, 90.1FM: http://weft.org/contact/
>>> WRFU 104.5FM Urbana: http://www.wrfu.net/contact
>>> WPGU 107.9FM (UI radio station): http://wpgu.com/
>>> WPCD 88.7FM (Parkland CommColl
>>> station): http://wpcd.parkland.edu/contact.html
>>>
>>> Clubs:
>>> Cowboy Monkey (bar in Champaign): http://www.cowboy-monkey.com/
>>> Canopy Club (Urbana): http://canopyclub.com/contact/
>>> High Dive (Champaign): http://thehighdive.com/contact/
>>> Indi Go Art Gallery (Champaign): http://www.indi-go-art.com/
>>> Mike & Molly's (Champaign): http://www.myspace.com/mikenmollys
>>>
>>> Show Producers in town:
>>> Seth Fein (Pygmalion Festival): info at pygmalionmusicfestival.com  /
>>>  http://www.pygmalionmusicfestival.com/spring/
>>> Morgan Orion (Reisman): http://www.morganorion.com/news.htm  /
217.390.6998
>>> / momaniac at yahoo.com
>>>
>>> Let us know what you think. We really want you guys to be part of UC
Mini
>>> again this year!
>>>
>>> sarah
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:36 PM, CMKT 4 <cmktfour at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sarah-
>>>> Here is our entry form. We are going to be performing in Peoria on the
>>>> Friday night before the Maker Faire, so no need to help out with a
>>>> show then.  We would like to perform and do a workshop on Saturday
>>>> night after the Faire, is that ok?
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Austin, Zach and Jeff, CMKT 4
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Sarah Dolinar <sarahdolinar at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Austin, Zach and Jeff,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> First, thank you so much for making the decision to return to Urbana!
We
>>>>> are
>>>>> delighted that you'd make the trip back our way. The 2012 Mini Maker
>>>>> Faire
>>>>> is shaping up to be a good one, and your participation will be a
>>>>> highlight!
>>>>>
>>>>> If you don't mind, could you complete this Maker agreement so we can
>>>>> make it
>>>>> all "official"?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ucmakerfaire.com/files/2012/02/MakerAgreement_UCMMF_020812.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me get back to you in a day or so with more on the logistics. Keep
>>>>> me
>>>>> posted about your plans for a show in the region for Friday night.
>>>>> There's a
>>>>> chance we could set you up with a performance Friday and build
>>>>> excitement
>>>>> for Saturday's Faire.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Sarah
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Sarah Dolinar
>>>>> sarahdolinar at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 6, 2012, at 4:11 PM, CMKT 4 <cmktfour at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Sarah-
>>>>>
>>>>> Brian Duggan put us in contact with you about the Urbana Mini Maker
>>>>> Faire.
>>>>> We are fresh off of tour and had to make the decision whether to do
>>>>> Urbana's
>>>>> or Minneapolis' Maker Faire.  We've decided we'd like to return to
>>>>> Urbana
>>>>> for the 2nd Mini Maker Faire and we want to confirm that with you.  I
>>>>> believe that Brian said you were interested in having us do a
>>>>> performance
>>>>> and workshop in addition to our booth.  We would be interested in
doing
>>>>> the
>>>>> performance and workshop, but we'd like to perhaps push them off until
>>>>> evening time after the booths are done for the day.  We can talk about
>>>>> all
>>>>> those logistics if you are still interested in having us.  Also, we'll
>>>>> likely be trying to put a show together somewhere in Central/Southern
>>>>> Illinois that Friday night before the 'Faire, please let us know if
you
>>>>> have
>>>>> any ideas in that regard.
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking forward to hearing from you!
>>>>>
>>>>> --Austin, Zach and Jeff, CMKT 4
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sarah Dolinar
>>> sarahdolinar at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
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