Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 10:28:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Skye Poier To: rhythm section Subject: Re: That bitch(?) Nadine Another perspective. -- Page A6, The Province (Vancoucer) Tuesday, August 16, 1994 HIP PARTY NO RAVING SUCCESS By Michael Roberts Rumbling from rosted ravers [gee, doesn't the Province sound like a tabloid? -skye] are creating bad vibes in the underground party scene. Summer Love 94 drew 4,000 peace-loving hipsters to Paradise Valley near Squamish last week. The party raged, but event contributors apparently were left holding the bag. Nadine Stone, organizer of the oudoor rave - a three stage dance party with DJs, bands, and visual effects - said last night the event was expensive to run and was a financial flop. "The show was a great success outside of the fact that it lost money," said Stone. Byron Lucas, who supplied visual effect to the event, supported Stone after being told the event had come up short by a rumored $100,000. "That's lame man, that somebody's doggin' it because they're feeling hurt," he said. "The truth is, she lost money, too." "She lost more than any of us. Its not like she ran off with a big wad of cash." Lucas, who works for a Vancouver company called Pangea, said he knows Stone well and has woked with her on the two previous Summer Love raves. He said Stone has been "throwing down" money for the scene for years and he blames a lack of financial planning and sponsorship for the raver's woes. "Yeah, the festival lost money, yeah, some people didn't get paid and yeah, they're griping because they are hurting," said Lucas. Gord Johnson, general manager of Intrepid Security, which controlled access to the rave, said the long guest list may have had "a large effect on the dollars and cents of the whole event." "The guest list was almost as big as the paying-customer list." Tickets to Summer Love 94 were $40 at the gate. Stone would not comment further on the event's financial problems and said she was considering holding it next year. -- ___ ___ / ) M. Skye Poier .... 40% zestier than yesterday / , )/ __)/ ,\ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty (___/(_/ (___/ + Mail skye@helix.net with the subject "#rave" for the nw-raves calendar!