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Tequila Club

2006-07-17T12:43:42Z

Alex: /* History */

==Tequila Club==

Tequila Club is a drinking system that requires members to follow specific linguistic rules during a series of rounds, each featuring a spirit-based drink.

===History===

The Club was first instituted sometime between 2000 and 2003 in [[Bobbys]], as a systematized community method of drinking Tequila - which nobody really likes. The rules that evolved are based around those present at that first occasion, but they have changed over the years to reflect the growing popularity of Tequila Club, a general trend of de-regulation in Bedlam, and the Club's creator leaving Edinburgh. The idea of a tequila 'Club' is based loosely on David Fincher's 1999 film version of Scott Palahniuk's novel "Fight Club", although the rules differ significantly.

This is lifted from an E-mail the day after the first ever Club, The e-mail was headed “About last Night…”

''Ladies and Gentlemen of the Tequila CLub:

Six there must be!

Not five, no!

Nay, nor seven!

But six! Six there must be for the circle to be complete!

The Official Tequila Club Rules:

1. You do not talk about Tequila Club.

2. [See Rule 1.]

3. Six there must be! [See above]

4. All previous rounds must be finished before the commencement of the
next round.

5. Maglites must be shared with those without.

6. Members shall gradually collonise better and better seating, until
they are the only people left in the pub and have to be thrown out at
closing time.

7. The "Responsible Barman" shall know of tequila club, shall indulge
their strange alcoholic requests and shall give them measures that
some might call "suspiciously larger than normal".

8. There is no eighth rule.

9. Memberships may be exchanged as members wish, and a membership may
even be split among more than one person providing that the fractional
sum equals six, for six there must be! [See above]

10. Members who have borrowed their flatmate's bicycles and who have
enjoyed a number of Tequila Club rounds should not attempt to ride
them home and ON NO ACCOUNT should they use the fact that they are
very strong, Scottish and without the calming influence of their
girlfriend to attack those who try to assist them in this respect.

11. WIth respect to rule 10, members - even those from the north-east
of England - should not let down other member's flatmate's tyres in an
effort to prevent them from riding home. He tried to anyway.

12. There shall be no talk of variant-CJD in Cappadocia.

13. The sets of outside companies shall not be interfered with, and a
professional attitude to said outside companies' shows - no matter how
awe-inspiringly bad examples of theatre they may be - shall be
maintained at all times.

14. When falling off bicycles which are traveling at speed and without
air in the tyres [see rules 10 and 11] members shall remember to fall
onto the grass, which is safer than concrete.

15. Members shall not have strange encounters on the way home ['nuff
said].

16. Neil should not have to get involved in any of this, although he
doesn't mind looking after his friends.

17. Tequila Club probably shouldn't meet again for a little while, and
should give time for bank acounts and heads to recover...

- Neil "Six there must be!" Hobbs,
Self-Appointed Tequila Club Secretary''''

===Original rules===

The Club requires six Members at any one time, one of whom takes the role of the host (although no such title has ever been specifically set). The Tequila Club begins when one Member buys a round of Tequila, ideally accompanied by salt and lemon/lime and normally carried on a tray: at this point many present will comment along the lines of "oh no!" and "what have you done?", leading to the self-selection of those six who are hard-core enough to be members for the first round. The club then proceeds as follows:

*The host speaks: "Ladies and gentlemen of Tequila Club! Six there must be - not five, no, nor seven, nay, but six - six for the circle to be complete! Number off along the boat!"
*The other members then each speak "one", "two", three", "four" or "five" in turn.
*The host then says: "Six. Six there indeed are! Ladies and gentlemen of Tequila Club - make ready!"
*The members clink their glasses together, and prepare themselves.
*The host finally says: "Ladies and gentlemen of Tequila Club: Round One - Fight!"
*All members drink, accompanied by salt and lemon/lime in the approved way if available.
*(It is usually advisable to have a chaser of something less tequila-y on standby.)
*This completes the first round.

Further rounds then proceed in exactly the same way, with the following caveats:

*Tequila is only a requirement of the first round: any spirit-based or 'short' drink is allowed in subsequent rounds of the Club. (Strictly speaking, a [[Black Techie]] would not be permitted, although some have featured in past Clubs.)
*Membership in the Club is fluid: members are not required to participate in all rounds, and membership can be transferred and swopped. It is only necessary for there to be six members at any one time.

It is usually expected that the host will remain a Member throughout the duration of a particlar Club, and the the same Member will be the host in all the rounds of that Club - although these are guidelines, not rules.

The Club continues until not enough Members want to carry on, everybody runs out of money or too many people are sick.

Notes:

*The phrase "number off along the boat" comes from the practice of splitting a rowing crew into odd and even numbers 'along the boat' to facilitate lifting a hull from rack to water.
*The phrase "round one - fight!" is taken from 'Mortal Kombat'.
*It is traditional (and, indeed, practical) that any round which includes Pete as a Member should take care to arrange a clear route between Pete and the toilets.

===The Next Generation rules===

[[Image:Tequilaclub.jpg|frame|Tequila Club, Fringe Party 2005]]

After a couple of years of successful operation, Tequila Club relaxed its rule structure significantly. This largely manifested itself in removing the limit of "six there must be", initially doubling this to a Membership number of twelve for certain Clubs before abandoning it completely in later years.

The End-Of-Fringe Party in August, 2005, saw the most notable recent example. A Tequila Club had taken place in the [[Guide to Building#Scene Dock|Scene Dock]] during the previous two Fringe Parties, but the combination of many Members and an extremely poor selection of hideous alcohol resulted in what may be the last major Tequila Club for some time.

'''See also:''' [[D.B.O., The|The D.B.O.]], [[Black Techie]]

Electrical Tape

2006-07-17T12:25:48Z

Alex:

[[Category:Equipment]]
AKA: LX tape, Leccy

Electrical Insulation Tape can usually be found in the pockets of most techies. Uses include taping cables to the rig, wrapping cables up, hiding bare bits of wire (No! Just No.), strapping gel frames together and attaching unsuspecting victims to unmovable objects.

LX is used on the cables to mark their length, we use a similar system to Blacklight except we don't include red or yellow, which are on all cables to indicate that they belong to Bedlam. Lengths are always rounded down and if there are two bands, then the lengths are added.

{| style="text-align:Center" border="1"
| length || Bedlam Colour || Black Light Colour
|-
| 1m || Brown || Brown
|-
| 2m || White || White
|-
| 3m || Purple || Purple
|-
| 5m || Blue || Blue
|-
| 10m || Green || Yellow
|-
| 20m || - || Green
|-
| 50m || - || Red
|}

LX tape is also used to identify the owner of tools; the table below shows some of the combinations

{| style="text-align:Center" border="1"
| Tape Colours || Owner || Notes
|-
| Red/Yellow || Bedlam ||
|-
| Yellow/Green || F.O.B. || Friends of Bedlam Toolkit (Striped/Earth Tape)
|-
| Blue/Red || Black Light || If it hasn’t been hired, don’t let Hogg see it
|-
| Yellow/Black || Dave Larking || Theatre Manager
|-
| Red-Black-Red || Duncan Grieve || Moved On
|-
| Purple/Black || Alistair Marshall || Please Sir can I have my <insert tool> back?
|-
| Blue || Colleen Patterson || Will possibly add black if such a simple colour becomes an issue
|-
| Green/Black || Richard Bell || I hereby claim the fore-mentioned colours for my stuff!
|-
| || Mark Gerrard || I want stuff to put my LX on...
|-
| Green/Black || Heather Hanshaw || I hereby re-claim the fore-mentioned colours from Richard cos i was here first! xx
|-
| Green || Claire Freake || My AJ had a band of bright green lx. Then it went missing at NSDF. Damn.
|-
| Blue/White || Alex Engel || These colours were hijacked with consent from David Illsley.
|}

LX tape can be used to write on, notice the indented section of the sound desk designed for this - it isn't just a coincidence. DON'T put tape on the new lighting desk . If a lantern breaks and needs to go to the bar of broken things then please put some tape on it and tell us what is wrong with it. If the mode of failure is not known mark the item FUCT - Failed Under Constant Testing!!

Curtains

2006-07-17T12:20:48Z

Alex:

Being a converted church, the Bedlam suffers from massive windows. Previously, the windows were blacked out with velvet maroon curtains with drawstrings attached. These curtains, more dust than fabric, were replaced Fringe 2006. The new curtains are fireproofed black wool serge, which is only a problem in that there are some irregularities in the fabric, resulting in light coming through. There is wood running along the outside of the windowframe, attached to the wall. The curtains are currently attached with staples. Each curtain is 1.5m x 4.5m, at its longest. The windows are only about 2.5m wide, so this gives some overlap in the middle and at the bottom. We used a 6m scaff tower from Generations to put them up and it took 7 days. The curtains were replaced by Alex Engel, Tom Latter, Richard Bell, Helena Larkin, Charlotte Jarvis, Matt Wieteska, Ruth Wilkinson, with emergency aid from Charlotte Coles and Clemmie Cooke.

Curtains

2006-07-17T12:19:35Z

Alex:

'''Bold text''' Blackout Curtains '''Bold text'''
Being a converted church, the Bedlam suffers from massive windows. Previously, the windows were blacked out with velvet maroon curtains with drawstrings attached. These curtains, more dust than fabric, were replaced Fringe 2006. The new curtains are fireproofed black wool serge, which is only a problem in that there are some irregularities in the fabric, resulting in light coming through. There is wood running along the outside of the windowframe, attached to the wall. The curtains are currently attached with staples. Each curtain is 1.5m x 4.5m, at its longest. The windows are only about 2.5m wide, so this gives some overlap in the middle and at the bottom. We used a 6m scaff tower from Generations to put them up and it took 7 days. The curtains were replaced by Alex Engel, Tom Latter, Richard Bell, Helena Larkin, Charlotte Jarvis, Matt Wieteska, Ruth Wilkinson, with emergency aid from Charlotte Coles and Clemmie Cooke.

Pubs

2006-07-17T11:50:19Z

Alex: /* Teviot */

[[Image:bobbys.jpg|thumb|right]]
Pub: a meeting place where people attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence, by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks.

== Bobbys ==

Greyfriar’s Bobby's Bar: Once the drinking venue of preference, not due to beer quality or price but because it is really close, they sponsor our shows and there are normally several Bedlam members working behind the bar. After a recent re-fub they now do "table service".....

== Doctors ==

Named after the former Royal Infirmary across the street, this is the backup for when Bobby's is closed, full or people fancy a change. Doctors has a wider choice of ales and cheaper than Bobby's. Doctors also shows sport which the new look Bobby's does not.

== Teviot ==

The oldest purpose built student union in Britan, this is a good place to head after other places close and being a student union, it sells cheap drinks. It is generally open until 3am, though some bars within the building will close around half 2. During the Fringe is becomes the Gilded Balloon, and has a license till 5am.