Monday, 12 January 2009

My idea for dissertation



From my last post i mention about Fat festival in Thailand. And in this post i will talk about The world most famous music festival "Glastonbury" .My i dear for dissertation is "Is fat festival have a potential to become the world most famous music festival like Glastonbury".

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is one of the largest music and performing arts festivals in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres (3.6 km²), had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. In 2007, over 700 acts played on over 80 stages and the capacity expanded by 20,000 to 177,000.[

Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippy ethics and the free festival movement in the 1970s, especially the Isle of Wight Festival. Organiser Thosore Plunkett stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970 at the nearby Bath and West Showground in 1970. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition, including the Green Futures/Healing Fields area.

The Glastonbury Festival 2009 will take place on the 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th June 2009. In marked contrast with previous years, some tickets went on sale on 5th October 2008 with pre-registered customers able either to pay in full, or place a £50 reserve deposit to be paid by February 1st.
The headliners have not been anounced, but Emily Eavis has gone as far to say that
U2, Coldplay and Rolling Stones are definitely not playing. Currently rumoured to be headlining are The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Neil Young, Blur, Bruce Springsteen and Kanye West. Unsigned Liverpool band Major Major became the first confirmed band for the festival after winning an unsigned band competition. Rolf Harris has been confirmed to be playing
Over half of next years festivals tickets have already been sold, as an early batch was released on October 5th
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Thursday, 1 January 2009

My first intership in event





In my third year for my bachelor degree, I have been participate in one of Thailand's most famous music festival "Fat festival"


Fat festival was organized by one of the leading radio company. It start for a small event in year 2002 and became more and more popular every year. "Fat fest" is a combination between concert, market and an opportunity for artist to meet their customer. In fat fest you can always see a popular singles sell their CD to fans by themselves. It is a really faun festival


I was honored when i first heard that they choose me to work with them for fat fest 6. i was just a student who always be in fat fest as an audience but for this time i will be able to work with them and have a chance to learn how this big event hold.


My position is AR which is Artist relation. My duty is to take care all the artist that will perform in my stage (There are always many stage divide by category in fat fest) It was so thrilled to be so close to popular artists. Some of them are my favorite but i have to act professional and threat them equally.I have to make sure that they understand the schedule and i have to do everything that i can to make the schedule on time even if it mean that i have to run over to their car and park the car for them. But not all of them have to be difficult. I found that most of them are easy to work with.


It was a 2 day event and by the end of our work beside the fact that i'm so exhausted that i want to throw my self to my bed , I feel that working in event is really fun and i can say that Fat fest make me want to work in events industries!!!







PS. Happy new year to you all!!

C U Soon and don't forget to do your CRM~~