Calm before the storm

We're enjoying a few days of planning, quoting and catching up with everyone in the office in Sydney before the busy season 'officially' begins for us this weekend. Greg heads off on Monday to light a massive conference in Athens, while I'm jetting off a week later to light Cleveland's Fabulous Food Show again in the cold, cold Ohio. November sees us spread all over the place, with Greg in Bangkok lighting the next leg of the Cats tour, myself in the USA and UK, and Dan jetting around Australia too. We've got a heap of interesting projects, including performances on islands around Sydney Harbour, live shows with Jamie Oliver, a few innovative and exciting product launches, a DVD shoot for Christian City Church, Bourbonfests in both Sydney and Brisbane as well as a host of end of year Christmas parties, performances and concerts. It's going to be a busy few months! This week we took delivery of our shiny new brochures - get in touch with us if you'd like to see a bit of what we've been up to in the past year - even we can't believe it was our first birthday a couple of weeks ago! So it's full steam ahead for us, watch this space for more blogs from all corners of the world! rich

Gearing up

I've had a busy few weeks since arriving back in Australia. Last weekend was spent on two all night dance parties - the enormous 2007 Sleaze Ball and then Fuzzy's Afterlife party - both at the Hordern Pavilion. With a slightly less busy week I've got a chance to start on paperwork for upcoming Jamie Oliver shows in the UK, and also to get ready for projects around Australia and the US. This afternoon I got a chance to return to the Favela club and add some tricky programming for a Australian television network which saw their logo rocketing through the roof of the venue for a corporate party. It's definitely getting busier and will be good to have the whole crew back in town next week.

Meowmemory

3 more times to hear Memory from CATS here in Korea. It has been a great five months touring Korea. Richard and I have had a ball up here together and individually. We have played 4 cities, renumbered all the cues in the show, transfered from HOG to GrandMA and even managed to go to a few roller coaster parks too (they are not the best, but better than nothing) and eaten TONS of Korean BBQ. The three of us are back in Sydney together for the first time since May 22, and its not for long with projects in Athens, Bangkok, Cleveland, Brisbane and Melbourne in the calendar for the next while. Then there are the jobs in Sydney..... its all go . Stay tuned to the website for announcements of developments at Mandylights. We are excited...you just have to wait!! Nearly show time here, but just so you get a taste of what I and Richard have been looking at recently heres the GrandMA set up in the stalls for the plotting session here in Daejeon Korea. Till the next time from somewhere GY