die ham auch mit ein paar problemen zu kämpfen gehabt
Phantoms of Pilsen hat geschrieben:The tenth anniversary Phantoms edition is over and before we say thanks you to all those who participated on the festival, let´s admit, this was the most complicated year for all of us. Ordinary visitor could hardly notice, but trust that everybody involved in the organization of the festival touched the bottom of his/her powers.
First of all we must say big THANKS to everybody who helped out in any possible way – the whole Phantom´s Crew of whose all are volunteers working with no claim to reward, some of those were working for long hours, days, weeks or even months to make this happen – the girls at the outside beer stand, the entrance and wardrobe crew, the guys at the doors to the backstage who were hiding that any of you who still want to make troubles would not be successful. We thank to all the supporters who invested not really a small amount of money to just make all this possible – Martina, Oskar, Martin – you know who you are. We must express our admiration to all the guys from XXL System for the perfect sounds and to the whole team for hard work. Also our stage crew deserves big admiration for keeping it running on time and for moving heavy stuff from place to place. We stand in awe in front of the venue owner and his co-workers – he had to be literally digging in shits, because some of the ladies probably throw pieces of their own clothing, so the toilets were repeatedly choked. Use your brain after you relieve yourself please!! Thanks to all the drivers who were bringing the bands from the airport, the hotel or elsewhere. The staff of the Hotel Roudná must be also of great patience while some of the artists probably think they belong to a higher caste. But we would be unfair claiming that all of them were like this – luckily we met some of the bands, which can be considered great personalities with everything that belongs to it. That´s the cooperation we appreciate the most.
You might have noticed some other visible complications, which made it all much harder for us – the reconstructions in front of the venue, the unexpected fountain which almost stopped the whole festival, when the waterworks wanted to stop the water in the whole district… But all these are challenges which we like to accept and smooth run then is a real reward.
Although we appeal to the visitors every year to behave themselves, we understand there must be at least one asshole, who will not satisfy our wishes… it is sad that thanks to these people organizing an event might be really pain in the ass. It is sad taking these people out of the hall or trying to give them a good talking. We are not happy bossing people around but there must be some basic rules when people are gathering in such a number.
In the other hand there are the impertinent members of bands, who know all the rules and agreements in advance and they still cannot behave on stage or off stage, or they are not ok with the maximum which we can provide them with and which is (according to us) very rare or substandard on similar events or it is available only to few chosen ones. Then we experience unpaid bills for minibar at the hotel, breakfasts over the frame of our agreement or just simple stupid requests. These people can hardly imagine how does it feel to work for somebody with no claim for reward. Then it is the most pleasant meeting truly honest and modest persons who can also say thank you in such an environment. It is nice to meet people, not idiots. Luckily we still meet lots of them and we are very happy for this. Anyway our occasional disillusionment here or there should not affect your feelings from the live performances and we think it really didn´t happen. So we really thank to all of the bands for great performances!
As you may see, behind the event there are months of work of many people and true dedication, because without dedication there could not be this kind of events. Unfortunately the festival also bears its costs and if we wanna do it on this level, it is necessary to do the budget really tight what brings along a big risk as well. The services we need to pay for to make it happen will hardly go cheaper, bands are asking more and more every year so until the last moment we are not sure if we can cover it all and it would work out in the end. And let´s be honest: it didn´t work out well this year. We are sorry we didn´t see our regular visitors, and we can be only sad that many of those who live nearby just don´t give a shit. Simply: there were not enough of you this year and it happened in that extend that it is unbearable and we cannot go on with the festival in coming years. It is a sad fact. We don´t wanna blame the others and scream our lungs out… We just made few mistakes which proved to be crucial. We don´t wanna step aside from the marked path but our ideas about the festival must be met at least a bit with the taste of the visitors at least to that extend so we could cover the expenses. Nobody wants to make it profitable and we could hardly make it with this kind of festival, but it is unbearable to fund the festival from our own to such an extent. We are very sorry but most probably we won´t be able to do the festival in 2017. We don´t wanna let the event die though, we would like to be back, but seems we need a break. Even the Czech government wants to make it a bit more complicated in the coming years for small events and we only know we can expect much worse conditions…
This kind of a long comment was written just to make you understand how difficult it is to organize even a small event and how could it feel when it doesn´t work financially. We are no leaving devastated – it is life. Still we are happy for the great atmosphere you created and even with all the complications it was worthy!!
Thanks for those 10 years!! It was a pleasure!!
METAL666 – Phantom´s Crew
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