A shoe-gazers wet dream
As well as making the Buzz Boxes themselves Object X’s creations also extend to the effects units that they will be played through. In this short audio clip we get the chance to listen to a flanger that goes to 11!
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Flyers in Selly Oak
I found out something I already knew – that very few print flyers are actually taken by individuals from static displays. Even in locations where a heavy footfall occurs such as Central Library – a location I visit two times a week and where I have spent time on a Saturday early afternoon just watching how people behave when they pass the flyer racks – I found that between my visits very few had disappeared.
PXP have always favoured hand to hand activity anyway. A smile and a chat with questions answered.
Nevertheless it wouldn’t be good to miss out on the potential for awareness raising that flyer drops present – its just WE don’t (I hope) leave quite as many expensive print flyers as some of our competitors seam to. 30 maximum – that’ll last you at least 3 weeks even if 10,000 people pass by every week. There’s nothing I like better than placing 25 of our flyers next to a stack of 100 for another event knowing full well that when I go back in 10 days no more than 12 of each will have been taken! That said with 100 + locations on the PXP distribution list that are divided up between the group to take responsibility for that’s still 3K, so if anything I recommend less than 30 – to be topped up if needed on return visits.
The distribution list was something we came up with as a mechanism for trying to ensure that our info gets beyond certain postcodes. It’s just a list of places suggested during round-the-table chats. Everyone involved is invited to volunteer to put a poster up (after asking permission) in their local newsagent/chip shop/leisure centre etc or the one near where they work. With a bit of luck you will have seen some.
Posters – my research and development there also confirmed something else I already knew: that the best place to keep your Blu Tack is in your back pocket. Keeping the sticky stuff close to body temperature is always a good idea.
Blu Tack in pocket
For those who will be turning up early and are looking for a place to meet we recommend The Craven Arms – just up the road from BUSK on Upper Gough Street. Other pubs further up the road are best avoided.