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Bedlam Fringe

2006-05-01T18:15:36Z

Neel:

Every August the Bedlam turns '''semi'''-professional and opens up as Fringe Venue 49.

Here's a history of the people involved...

==Fringe 2006==

*Fringe Venue Manager: Charlotte Jarvis
*Theatre Manager: Alex Engel
*Technical Manager: Matt Wieteska
*Press and Publicity Manager: Simon Hodges
*Graphics Designer: Chris Mounsey
*Box Office Managers:
*Café Managers:
*Box Office Staff:
*Cafe Staff:

==Fringe 2005==

*Fringe Venue Manager: Claire Glendenning
*Theatre Manager: James Turner-Inman
*Technical Manager: Paul Foxcroft
*Press and Publicity Manager: Andrew Nielson
*Graphics Designer: Chris Mounsey
*Box Office Managers: Heather Hanshaw + Nick Bustin
*Café Managers: Graeme Wright + Becca Davis
*Box Office Staff: Jeremy Bidgood, Rob Stott, Rosie, Alex Engel,
*Cafe Staff: Emma Drage,

'''Achievements:'''

*Replaced carpet in auditorium with carpet tiles
*New freezer
*Improved box office system with thermal ticket printer and new software
*Re-hung rig (termtime budget?)
*Created trus-based awning for front of building (sponsored by Becks)
*Installed ADSL internet connection, network cabling and wireless network
*Loads of painting
*Improved soundproofing inbetween café and auditorium around the door
*Pimped up the office
*New storage solutions in tech-box and balcony for screws and stuff
*Various new bits and bobs for the café e.g. tea light lanterns
*Purchase of Dog (who is a rabbit) [and is very cute]
*Re-skinned stage
*Sanded down and varnished cafe floor

==Fringe 2004==

*Fringe Venue Manager: Miriam Raines
*Theatre Manager:
*Technical Manager: James Turner-Inman
*Press and Publicity Manager:
*Graphics Designer:
*Box Office Managers: Paul Foxcroft, Martin Cavanagh
*Café Managers:
*Box Office Staff:
*Cafe Staff:

==Fringe 2003==

*Fringe Venue Manager: Cat Smith
*Theatre Manager: Jono Ellis
*Technical Manager: Matt Ling
*Press and Publicity Manager: Sarah Cook
*Graphics Designer/Website: Neil E. Hobbs
*Box Office Managers: Alison Timms and Kirsten Morris
*Café Managers: Victoria Tills and Kati Hind
*Box Office Staff:
*Cafe Staff:
 
'''Achievements:''' 
*New potato oven and chiller cabinet for cafe
*New sound system - two speakers, mini disc players, new MC2 amp, graphics - paid for by profit from Fringe 2002 (!)
*New level in costume cupboard - see graffiti!
*Skinned stage cupboard for the first time and removed wall and rail allowing it to become a stage pit
*Redid cafe and toilets
*Installed fan in cafe to improve ventilation
*Obtained two microwaves
*Redid kitchen - repainted and tiled walls, obtained new oven and hobs
*Cut down number of EUTC slots to two
*Held first FOB agm
*Held first full preview week schedule
*Held art exhibition in collabaration with ECA
*Bought picnic table to extend cafe area (buy a new one!)
*Made more money than Graeme Timms (sorry long standing debate!)

==Fringe 2002==

*Fringe Venue Manager: Graeme Timms
*Theatre Manager: Richard Hogg
*Technical Manager: Matt Gray
*Press and Publicity Manager: Neil E. Hobbs
*Graphics Designer/Website: Neil E. Hobbs
*Box Office Managers: Pete Lowden and Sarah Kerr
*Café Managers: Cat Smith and Rachel Mountfield
*Box Office Staff:
*Cafe Staff:
 
'''Achievements:''' 
*Replaced damaged floorboards on stage during re-skinning
*Dug out back passage and laid path and red chips round that side of building
*Re-built box office counter
*Much re-wiring of light fittings and sockets
*Computerised the Box office ticketing system
*Built the Info-Cat - (He never quite became a cat)
*Replaced lighting in toilets
*Rebranded '''Bedlam Fringe''' as a separate entity from term-time operation
*First website with up-to-date reviews, show info, etc
*Much painting
*Consumption of the more Caley Golden Promise that the Cash and Carry could stock!!

Bedlam Fringe

2006-05-01T18:13:34Z

Neel:

Every August the Bedlam turns '''semi'''-professional and opens up as Fringe Venue 49.

Here's a history of the people involved...

==Fringe 2006==

*Fringe Venue Manager: Charlotte Jarvis
*Theatre Manager: Alex Engel
*Technical Manager: Matt Wieteska
*Press and Publicity Manager: Simon Hodges
*Graphics Designer: Chris Mounsey
*Box Office Managers:
*Café Managers:
*Box Office Staff:
*Cafe Staff:

==Fringe 2005==

*Fringe Venue Manager: Claire Glendenning
*Theatre Manager: James Turner-Inman
*Technical Manager: Paul Foxcroft
*Press and Publicity Manager: Andrew Nielson
*Graphics Designer: Chris Mounsey
*Box Office Managers: Heather Hanshaw + Nick Bustin
*Café Managers: Graeme Wright + Becca Davis
*Box Office Staff: Jeremy Bidgood, Rob Stott, Rosie, Alex Engel,
*Cafe Staff: Emma Drage,

'''Achievements:'''

*Replaced carpet in auditorium with carpet tiles
*New freezer
*Improved box office system with thermal ticket printer and new software
*Re-hung rig (termtime budget?)
*Created trus-based awning for front of building (sponsored by Becks)
*Installed ADSL internet connection, network cabling and wireless network
*Loads of painting
*Improved soundproofing inbetween café and auditorium around the door
*Pimped up the office
*New storage solutions in tech-box and balcony for screws and stuff
*Various new bits and bobs for the café e.g. tea light lanterns
*Purchase of Dog (who is a rabbit) [and is very cute]
*Re-skinned stage
*Sanded down and varnished cafe floor

==Fringe 2004==

*Fringe Venue Manager: Miriam Raines
*Theatre Manager:
*Technical Manager: James Turner-Inman
*Press and Publicity Manager:
*Graphics Designer:
*Box Office Managers: Paul Foxcroft, Martin Cavanagh
*Café Managers:
*Box Office Staff:
*Cafe Staff:

==Fringe 2003==

*Fringe Venue Manager: Cat Smith
*Theatre Manager: Jono Ellis
*Technical Manager: Matt Ling
*Press and Publicity Manager: Sarah Cook
*Graphics Designer: Neil Hobbs
*Box Office Managers: Alison Timms and Kirsten Morris
*Café Managers: Victoria Tills and Kati Hind
*Box Office Staff:
*Cafe Staff:
 
'''Achievements:''' 
*New potato oven and chiller cabinet for cafe
*New sound system - two speakers, mini disc players, new MC2 amp, graphics - paid for by profit from Fringe 2002 (!)
*New level in costume cupboard - see graffiti!
*Skinned stage cupboard for the first time and removed wall and rail allowing it to become a stage pit
*Redid cafe and toilets
*Installed fan in cafe to improve ventilation
*Obtained two microwaves
*Redid kitchen - repainted and tiled walls, obtained new oven and hobs
*Cut down number of EUTC slots to two
*Held first FOB agm
*Held first full preview week schedule
*Held art exhibition in collabaration with ECA
*Bought picnic table to extend cafe area (buy a new one!)
*Made more money than Graeme Timms (sorry long standing debate!)

==Fringe 2002==

*Fringe Venue Manager: Graeme Timms
*Theatre Manager: Richard Hogg
*Technical Manager: Matt Gray
*Press and Publicity Manager: Neil Hobbs
*Graphics Designer: Neil Hobbs
*Box Office Managers: Pete Lowden and Sarah Kerr
*Café Managers: Cat Smith and Rachel Mountfield
*Box Office Staff:
*Cafe Staff:
 
'''Achievements:''' 
*Replaced damaged floorboards on stage during re-skinning
*Dug out back passage and laid path and red chips round that side of building
*Re-built box office counter
*Much re-wiring of light fittings and sockets
*Computerised the Box office ticketing system
*Built the Info-Cat - (He never quite became a cat)
*Replaced lighting in toilets
*Rebranded '''Bedlam Fringe''' as a separate entity from term-time operation
*First website with up-to-date reviews, show info, etc
*Much painting
*Consumption of the more Caley Golden Promise that the Cash and Carry could stock!!

Black Techie

2006-05-01T18:07:26Z

Neel:

A tech initiation drink and tastes nicer than you might think.

==Ingredients==

#Pint 80/-
# Short Vodka & Coke, no ice or lemon

==Method==

#Drink from pint of 80/- down to just below the bulge in the glass
#Add Vodka & Coke
#Techie tool<nowiki>*</nowiki>, in order of tech superiority, stir drink
#Last to stir must suck the residue from the tool.
#Grandfather Tech (generic phrase for either techies with or without bumps) then recites an appropriate blessing
#All technicians must then down three fingers.
#Drinking continues until finished.
#Redo from 1.

==Footnote==

<nowiki>*</nowiki>The tool of choice is the Maglite for a number of reasons

*your maglite will taste nice for the next couple of days.

*It also proves that maglites work underwater

*Gives a pleasing lighting effect (Especially as you will be drunk before you try this).

'''See also:''' [[D.B.O., The|The D.B.O.]], [[Tequila Club]]

D.B.O., The

2006-05-01T18:07:08Z

Neel:

The D.B.O. is a techie-themed cocktail devised and executed for the first time at NSDF 2006.

== Definitions ==

* '''The D.B.O.''' - a collection of '''faders''' and a '''grand master'''.
* '''Fader''' - one member of a '''D.B.O.''', comes in two varieties - '''flash''' and '''solo'''.
* '''Flash''' - a coke-bottle topped up with Jack Daniels, of equivalent strength to a double jack and coke.
* '''Solo''' - a coke-bottle topped up with Jack Daniels, of equivalent strength to a triple jack and coke.
* '''Grand Master''' - a Jack Daniels bottle partially emptied while making '''flashes''' and '''solos''' refilled with coke, of equivalent strength to whatever you can drink without sweating JD back out of your eyeballs.

== Instructions ==

The D.B.O. is very simple to make. You need:

* A six-pack of glass coke-bottles
* A 2-litre bottle of coke
* A bottle of Jack Daniels
* A leatherman
* LX Tape

Once you have all of these things:

* Open each coke bottle in turn, carefully, preferably with the leatherman. Try to damage the cap as little as possible.
* Take a swig from the top of the opened bottle. For a '''flash''', take a small swig. For a '''solo''', take either two small swigs or one large swig.
* Top the bottle up with Jack Daniels
* Place the cap back onto the lid of the bottle and crimp it down using the leatherman.
* LX Tape around the cap and top of the completed fader to seal it. If sharing the D.B.O. with friends, LX Tape with your personal colours. If making a '''solo''', mark with an extra ring of LX around the neck for easier identification later.
* When all bottles of coke have been made into faders, top the now somewhat less full JD bottle up with coke from the 2-litre bottle to make the Grand Master.
* Go to party

== Notes ==

* Hitting a solo has a more drastic effect than hitting a flash, and is more likely to make you look like a fool. Do it with care.
* Pulling down all of the faders at once is more likely to result in a personal D.B.O. than sampling just one fader at a time.
* If it all goes tits up, you can always go straight to D.B.O. by throwing down the Grand Master. Just try not to throw it up again unless you're absolutely sure nobody's watching.

== Variations ==

* '''Submaster''' - A fader with a dash of lime added for taste.
* '''Inhibitor''' - Like a fader but in reverse. Take a swig from a JD bottle and top it up with a dash of coke.
* '''FX Fader''' - Start with a bottle of diet coke. Before drinking, drop a packet of mentoes into the bottle.
* '''Cues''' - If this all isn't geeky enough for you, before starting on a new fader be sure to announce to those around you "LXQ1, standby... and go." Then down it. Side-effect: People will stop talking to you.

'''See also:''' [[Black Techie]], [[Tequila Club]]

Tequila Club

2006-05-01T18:06:27Z

Neel:

==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.

===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]]

Tequila Club

2006-05-01T18:01:55Z

Neel: Tequila Club is a rule-based drinking system

User:Martin cavannagh

2006-05-01T17:50:32Z

Neel:

A super-great dude.

Known for doing really rad stuff. He certainly does not suck balls. Except for that one time.

Talk:Life Members

2006-05-01T17:45:53Z

Neel:

I'm a life member.

That's "N-e-i-l-space-E.-space-H-o-b-b-s", thank'ye very much.

Talk:Life Members

2006-05-01T17:44:32Z

Neel:

I'm a life member.

I am too!

File:Tequilaclub.jpg

2006-05-01T17:41:01Z

Neel: Tequila Club, Fringe Party 2005

Tequila Club, Fringe Party 2005