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Posted: 25th Sep 2002
good, Adam,

guess the play is among:

where there's a will there's a way. . .
or a response about the difficulty
or a request for alternatives

or it's dropped as too much trouble
or their project doesn't take such steps,
& hopefully it's not culturally disdained

or more accomodation/ promotional work is expected by them from the performer/ agent

Charles,

best of luck, wonderful that one of us is pursuing this enough to find out about the reality of the opportunity!

if it were to pan out, INFERNO in Dubai -- it'll be a terrific gig, from location alone!

AardvarkOnAcid, ikarus,

haven't gigged in Arabian lands, though?

Maximus,

any news?

cheers,

~ Mike

[ 26 September 2002, 13:08: Message edited by: FireMike ]

molten cheers,

~ FireMike

FireMikeZ@yahoo.com (personal messages welcome, no promo spam, please!)
Laguna, California, US

Posted: 7th Nov 2002
The Flaming Butterflies have listed Dubai as one of their gigs for this year. They've been there, ask them.

Also, do a search on the Dubai Shopping Fest!

UYI OLDSKOOL

Posted: 7th Nov 2002
Still no word from these guys or the guy pretending to be from that american website, I'm guessing it is the same person trying to get performance videos for his own bizarre reasons...

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Posted: 10th Nov 2002
Dubai Shopping Festival Check out the prizes

UYI OLDSKOOL

Posted: 25th Nov 2002
I emailed The Flaming Butterflies about their gig in Dubai and they said it was great, though very hot. I junked that email I got about performers wanted so I haven't followed that particular lead up.
Though I would say that the world is more dangerous now than when this thread started. I'd fear being the victim of terrorist action before fearing being ripped off.

UYI OLDSKOOL

Posted: 26th Nov 2002
Did anybody here get the gig? A.N.T.H.E.L.I.O.N was contacted too and we sent in a proposal but got no response.

Nomad

Posted: 26th Nov 2002
Like I've already mentioned, I think this whole thing was a scam to get hold of performance videos. As for the the actual reson for wanting them I have no idea, maybe they want to start their own bootleg COL?

With all my communications with them, they never asked for references, where I had worked in the past or even for a safety record. all they wanted was a video of my shows...

A very similar request was also emailed out to all of us apparently from a big agent in the States. The email address it was sent to though, wasn't the emails on the website, and the guy was once again soley asking for performance videos.

Here is that other thread.

Just for everyone's infomration here, virtually no-one in the performance arts arena will send out multiple emails to make bookings. Its too time consuming, gets too many "wannabe's" who don't deliver on the day and just impractical for many reasons.

If someone has sent out multiple emails to thousands of people, it is SPAM, and they want you to make you visit a site, or get something for nothing off you.

Thats the way spam works, it relys on numbers to make it effective.

I['m certain this is the same person as the US site pretender, and if so, I think they are the scum of the internet.

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Posted: 24th Dec 2002
Agreed, but still no reason to avoid working the UAE

UYI OLDSKOOL