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dee@treehouse.systems ("Dee in London") wrote:
Elastica is how I got into tech, they needed to shoot a music video for Waking Up / Connection and a US release... they needed 300 people to turn up at a venue on Regents Street in London to shoot this... in 2 weeks time in 1994.
homeless ass me had gone on tour with the band and had offered to sell their T-shirts for them... and they let me. in the process the fans gave me their names and addresses for more information if it ever came.
I had 1,800 names and addresses, and Justine got in contact and connected me to their management company Chris Morrison Organisation... could I contact these people? quickly?
yes, just buy me 1,800 envelopes, stamps, bits of paper, and pack of biros.
I broke into an empty building, and set to it... I wrote and posted 1,800 letters... and we waited.
on the day 400 people turned up, and we had to turn a lot away... the management company were amazed.
"Could you do this again? We have another band and we would like this capability"
I said no, no way... that broke my back being doubled over writing letters... "You should buy a computer, a computer could do this".
they bought me an IBM 30386... I hadn't told them to buy me a computer! so I needed another squat but this time one with power. I broke into another empty building between Camden and Kentish Town, and stole the power from the hole in the roof that led to the neighbours attic and their light fitting.
I got a book from the library, a BASIC reference book, in alphabetical order... and I built a database... it worked, as did mail merge, printing, and various other things I made. It helps not knowing this is "difficult".
that other band that CMO had... Blur, about to release a track called Girls & Boys