Anyone going to LIMS?

[Groove Cartel]

Hi,

Are any of you guys popping along to the London International Music Show at Excel next weekend?

If you are, please call in on the Vanquish Guitars stand for a chat and to try some really cool, hand made British guitars. Oli Brown will also be performing regular demo's on his signature guitar, I may play a bit too! Vanquish also use various matched sets of BKP's plus custom wound sets.

Check out www.vanquishsounds.com for more details.

Cheers

[Jonny]

I really want to go, but I'll be on holiday :(

Hope someone makes a thread and posts millions of pictures!

[morgasm]

ill be there !

[Crazy_Joe]

I would be if i wasn't at Download festival.

[Roobubba]

I thought you were talking about Laboratory Information Management Systems, there.

Roo

[bucketshred]

Going Download. Sorry mate.

[Adam.M]

They've arranged it on the same day as download festival again?! damn...

I wish I were going, maybe next year.

[ailean]

Yup I'll be there :)

[andymac]

I'll be there,

Andy

[FELINEGUITARS]

It's utter stupidity to make it the same weekend as Download and Isle of Wight Festivals

As ever there will be engineering works on the tube making access harder still for some people 

[nfe]

It's utter stupidity to make it the same weekend as Download and Isle of Wight Festivals

AND Rock Ness.

Which has been near catastrophic for my my work, with two of us at download, three of us playing at Rock Ness and a few going down to LIMS. Ah well, I got my holidays in early!

[ailean]

I keep wondering if there is some kind of strategy to reduce the popularity of the Guitar section of the show, they seem to be going out of their way to screw up their own show, they MUST know that they are up against other events, they MUST know that preventing sales at the show will mean vendors won't turn up, particularly the smaller ones, but Gibson is conspicuous by it's absence as well.

I think they want to down scale it.

[morgasm]

It's utter stupidity to make it the same weekend as Download and Isle of Wight Festivals

As ever there will be engineering works on the tube making access harder still for some people 

are you going to be showing anything etc?

[FELINEGUITARS]

It's utter stupidity to make it the same weekend as Download and Isle of Wight Festivals

As ever there will be engineering works on the tube making access harder still for some people 

are you going to be showing anything etc?

Sadly not this year
Last year I decided to take a year out and see what I thought about the changes to the show
The big increase in the cost of the show (25% up) last year had me rethinking it as well as the not allowed to sell rule
When I realised that they put it up against Download/IOW festivals last year I was seriously worried about the effect on attendance
I went along two days and to be fair it was like a ghost town on both days - dont know how the organisers came up with the high attendance figures they had - sure didnt look that way to me

I was sorely tempted to go back  this year as an exhibitor - especially as they offered some nice price stands for small luthiers, but the repeated clash of dates with big festivals made me wonder if the poor attendance I witnessed would be repeated this year - especially with so many people feeling the pinch financially

I will be going along to the show twice this year - Thursday and Sunday (transport permitting) to gauge attendance (and enjoy the show too)

I do want to do the show next year - especially if I have a chance to get the 20th anniversary models out for 2010, but I want to speak to the organisers about the stupid dates clash before diving in.
I also want to clarify issues about being able to sell small items like t shirts and strings or take deposits on stuff to be shipped out after the show - (or get handed over to the buyer in the car park more likely)

People are always welcome to visit me here if they want to try anything out till then

By The Way - transport news
There is a 3 day tube strike across the entire tube system from Tues-Thursday that week

On the Saturday and Sunday - both the Victoria Line tube and the Jubilee Line will be shut down for planned maintenance
I guess there will be a dead slow bus replacement running,

So if you have to travel to the Show - plan ahead with that in mind

[ailean]

By The Way - transport news
There is a 3 day tube strike across the entire tube system from Tues-Thursday that week

On the Saturday and Sunday - both the Victoria Line tube and the Jubilee Line will be shut down for planned maintenance
I guess there will be a dead slow bus replacement running,

So if you have to travel to the Show - plan ahead with that in mind

Cheers for that.