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299 photos to sift through, edit, then slap on a flash drive and give to my boss.
Then heading back to this strange carnival of a festival to do some street marketing for our music festival in a few weeks.
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PropertyOfZack is excited to welcome back Lo Fidelity’s Jamie Malerba for her third Contributor Blog. Last time Jamie checked in with us, she was preparing to launch the first annual RaleighPalooza. The festival is now two weeks behind us and Jamie is back to discuss the major undertaking, what she learned, and her future. Read up and make sure to check back for more from Jamie in the future!
Last time I checked in with POZ I was in the middle of producing an all day music festival in Raleigh, North Carolina. It took place on Saturday, May 5th at the Raleigh Convention Center. If you’re curious as to what bands I booked for the fest, the full lineup is still over on www.raleighpalooza.com/lineup!
From As Cities Burn to The Early November to The Almost, it was a nostalgic and rewarding day for me. I used to wake up before school and watch some of these bands on VH1 before catching the bus. I was sitting in Lo Fidelity’s office last night, and “Something That Produces Results” by TEN came on shuffle. I kept saying to myself, “Did they really play my festival?” I did it. I did it. I did it.
The only dream I ever had was the dream of music. Live music. It was always enough for me. There’s something powerful about standing in a crowd of people, singing along to the same words. It can give someone the most happiness ever needed.
It was the first week of March and all 38 bands should have been announced and promoted for May 5th. I only had 6 bands on the website and it took everything in me not to shut down and give up. The delays were out of my control. The venue held up two weeks of production, I had a handful of bands jump ship, issues with scheduling in Raleigh, investors bailed, production flaked, and I finally came to the realization that I was addicted to Red Bull.
Now, let’s fast forward to mid April.
If you look up loyalty in the dictionary I’m sure you’ll find pictures of Adam Puckett and Seth Titus. These guys have seen me at my absolute worst, but they’ve always been there to pick me up. Adam and Seth both left Greensboro and lived on my couch two weeks prior to RaleighPalooza.
When I say I was understaffed for RaleighPalooza, I MEAN I WAS UNDERSTAFFED. Everyone was doing jobs for at least three people. That’s all I could afford and more importantly, that’s all I could trust with this new festival.
About damn time.
Sign me up.
So I go into Hot Topic to buy the Topshelf/No Sleep compilation today and Hot Topic now only has a small shelf of music, like four small shelves on the wall that you could miss if you weren’t looking for it.
Last summer they had stand alone shelving that took up a part of the store.
I swear to god if Newbury Comics starts shrinking like this I’m going to flip.
The RIAA claims that file-sharing program LimeWire owes the association $72 trillion. Check out a full article here and a snippet of it below by clicking “Read More.”
very reasonable.
Just some pocket change…
(via thebluthcompany)
