Tour Blog – Part 8 (Cardiff)
Audience: 25 (Thu), 7 (Fri) & 7 (Sat) Technical: Really lovely again. Dan’s a bit of a genius – really reassuring, knowledgeable […]
Tour Blog – Part 7 (Huddersfield)
Audience: 13 (Tues) & 9 (Weds – but thank you to the LBT staff for coming along!) Technical: Utter legends. Both technicians […]
Tour Blog – Part 6 (Aberystwyth)
Audience: 8 Technical: Paul the technician was great. By far the best dressed technician I’ve ever seen. Black shirt, black braces, black […]
Tour Blog – Part 5 (Wolverhampton)
Audience: 5 (of which 2 were staff, to whom I am eternally grateful. Technical: Amazing. Genuinely brilliant, supportive. It was such a […]
Tour Blog – Part 4 (York)
Audience: 38 Technical: Again really good – Nathan was brilliant – it’s a very simple show and we simplified it even more […]
Tour Blog – Part 3 (Halifax)
Audience: 8 Technical: There wasn’t any communication beforehand so I was a bit apprehensive. I got there far too early (12pm) with […]
Tour Blog – Part 2 (Harrogate Theatre)
Audience: 15 (sold 21) Technical: Ludicrously easy set up – Harrogate’s staff were outstanding – the show is dead simple, but it […]
Tour Blog – Part 1 (Liverpool Everyman)
I’ve decided to blog about my shows on the tour of Every Little Hope – a record for myself as […]
Arts Marketing: 50 Easy-To-Do Tips
First things first – 50 tips, easy-to-do or otherwise, is a fuck-load of tips. I’ve been wanting to write a […]
Arts Marketing: Freaks, Questions, Testing and Careers
How many of us send a season brochure? Pretty much most regional theatres right? Now we send them because we have an inherent belief that they work, that they bring in a huge amount of sales – but how much of these essential pieces of print is developed through research and how much is developed through preference and anecdote.
2022 Resolutions
As I get older I’ve become more and more aware that these are things to help motivate me in life. I think back to my early twenties when I dreamt of being an Artistic Director, or late twenties where stand up really entered my life, and I worry that I’ve become directionless.
Arts Marketing: Preparing For What’s Next
Or ideas of things to do over the next couple of months… I’ve been in a weird mood since Christmas […]
New Year’s Resolutions 2021
Well fuck me thank God 2020 is over right? I mean don’t get me wrong – there was some nice […]
Arts Marketing – Predicting The Future
I started writing this post in late May, but then hit a block of “what the fuck am I writing […]
Social Spacing (In Theatre)
****UPDATE 20 May – I’ve been rewriting lots of the info on here – as a result this blog is, […]
Arts Marketing: How the **** do you segment?
Hi, welcome back if you’ve been to my blog before, and if you’re new (which statistically speaking you probably are) […]
Arts Marketing – Building houses on jelly
I’ve been looking to see what proactive steps I and the team I’m part of can take while the jelly beneath us solidifies over the coming weeks and months.
Arts Marketing – So What Do We Do Now?
So, I decided I’d write down some ponderings of where my head is at, what I think the direction of travel might be.