Andy Dubron Founder
We are currently looking for new venues to host all ages music events in the Reno area. If you own or manage a property or know of anyone who owns or manages a property that you feel would be able to be used for our purposes, then please E-mail either , or for rental information. We are looking to expand our events to many different locations throughout the Reno area.
Andy Dubron Founder
The team is building now, and we have all decided to try and get a team together to raise funds for childrens cancer research. On march 17th St. Baldricks will be hosting an event at the bowling alley at wild island in sparks. Each team member is working on getting registered, so you can see who is involved. Right now our goal is $1500 to be raised, but we are hoping it could be more than that. It’s really up to you guys. Check out our community section to see how you can be a part of our team.
Andy Dubron Founder
Now, as many of you may know, I had surgery a few weeks ago. Around that time, I made sure that not only my Special Event Permit application was faxed to the reno fire department, along with my insurance application for the event (Because I do get insurance to protect the people who come to my events, every time)
Both were faxed, and received. And I have the paperwork to show that as well. Now, since the party that Paul and I threw for Halloween (Now-Loween 3) I have not seen a member of the Reno Fire Department. I have received bills in the mail for the Special Event Permits, that is payable to the Reno Fire Department.
Now, let me talk about the special event permit process, for everyone here so you understand HOW EASY IT IS TO PLAY BY THE RULES.
You can go to, or call the Reno Fire Department (Located at 200 Evans Ave) and ask for a special events permit application. Then you are able to fill it out, and attach a floorplan for the building where the event will be located. This can be hand drawn, it doesn’t need to be to scale, just show all doors, and exits, ect.
So, you get that, you pay $100 for an inspection, and $50 for the permit, and a fire marshall will come to the building the day of your event and inspect what is going on, and drop off the permit to you.
There is also a Special Event Application that is available at the city of reno’s website, or in the business licensing division at city hall that you should fill out. That permit costs $100, and has at least a 15 day processing time.
This has been the way I have been getting permits for the last 4 years. This is my second show that has been closed earily due to police, and the third that has ended earily for any reason. Here is a list of my events, and the reasons they have been shut down.
Lollipop Love: Stoneys not having a business licence, so he could not operate
Tropicana: Stoneys got shut down, the owner lied and misrepresented my group as a high school fashion show to the Elks Lodge. Once they noticed that we were not a fashion show, they were pretty over it. Nobody likes being lied to.
Trauma: Shut down due to not having a receipt for payment to the reno fire department. I do have my faxed paperwork, and the transmission sheet from the fax machine saying it was sent. But, because someone at reno fire didn’t come down, it doesn’t count.
So, For the last three months, I have thought that the Reno Fire Department has been seeing the same application that they see every month, and the same floorplan, and would just decide to bill me. I was informed that this is not standard policy for them, and I need to go in and speak with whoever processes this paperwork. I also will be setting up a meeting with the head of the Special Investigation Group at the Reno Police Department to make sure that something like this never happens to one of my events again. Every officer that I spoke with was very happy with how every one of my staff, and security guards were running our event. To quote them directly “we are happy with how your event is run, and that you are giving kids a place to go so they aren’t on the streets downtown.”
So, with that being said, I’m sorry the event got shut down. I would like to thank everyone who made it happen. Big thanks to Jetson, and Alex, let’s do it again soon boys..
To everyone who wanted a refund. I would have no problem giving a refund if in-fact I did make money, but considering that I took a loss, I’m dealing with lost money the same as you are, and I’m sorry that you didn’t have a good time.
I’m going to be working on having something happen to makeup for this event. Hopefully in the next couple of months. Also, please be on the lookout for the donation report. It should be a good one!
Thank you all for your support, it means a lot.
Genny
After heavy consideration we have come to the conclusion that the winner of our DJ contest is Elucidate from Sacramento, California. We will be asking him to play at Lollipop Love 5 March, 15th 2008.
Thank you to all who participated and congratulations to Elucidate!
DJ-Bird DJ/Promoter
Hello everyone!
I’m proud to say that we are turning all my old CD’s into mp3s for you to be able to download here!
CD’s will be uploaded and we are working on adding a Music section to our site within the next couple of weeks!
Happy New Year.
Andy Dubron Founder
Alright, there is a total of 6 CDs entered into the contest. We received more, but unfortunately not all of them followed the guidelines posted and are not eligible. But we will keep your CD and keep you in mind for future bookings.
Here are the 6 we will be choosing from
DJ Cheef
Awggie
Elucidate
Jeff Thompson
A5uka
Ernest Joy
Good luck to those 6!
We’ll be making a decision soon!
Andy Dubron Founder
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Andy Dubron Founder
Everyone at Andy & Friends are very proud to announce that we will be hosting DJ-Bird’s Official CD Release at Trauma on Friday January 18th 2007. He will be selling his release for only $8, so get them early while he still has them!
More information will be posted soon.
Andy Dubron Founder
This will be a contest to play at a Psy influenced event, with international headliners GMS
We must have all submissions for this contest in by January 15th, Please make sure you have the following with your demo..
1) Your demo must be at least 60 minutes of mixed music, if you have made some of the music yourself, please feel free to let us know what tracks. Please make sure your demo is track-marked properly.
2) You must include a track listing. This is a must
3) Please include a note with your phone number, and other contact information, along with your affiliations for the flier, and maybe a CD with a few different pictures of you on it that you would want on a flier.
Also, If you would like to accompany your demo with a CD of personal works that you have created, that would be good as well.
Go ahead and send the demo to the following address:
Andy & Friends Booking
GMS Contest
105 Mogul Mountain Dr
Reno, NV 89523
Please, if you have any friends who want to enter, or belong to any message boards where it will apply please repost it, and tell your friends.
Andy Dubron Founder
We would like to take a minute to thank everyone who was able to submit a mix during our contest. We will be taking our time to make sure that we give each mix as much attention as we can, to be as fair as possible, and will keep you updated on the winner.
Right now, we are looking at letting the winner have a guest slot at Lollipop Love 5, on March 15th, 2008
More information will be announced in the future.
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