BOOKING SICK PUPPIES FOR COMMUNITY EVENT

[wrxracer24]

With things like the FREE HUGS video, etc Sick Puppies definitely instill a sense of togetherness. Fans sticking together to promote the band. I have an idea. Any1 know how much it costs to book the sick puppies?? Our town hosts a Mayor's Cup Regatta every year around the 4th of July. Sick Puppies play at Higher Ground VT which is 1 1/2 hrs from Plattsburgh,NY where I live and work. We have a crete civic center that gets no use for bands, just ice skating and things like that in the winter. We have a downtown stage sponsored by local business's and they host bands there during the summer. An irish band Gaelic Storm played there one year and it was awesome. Our last mayor was very involved with the community having plays and bands and lots of activities going on. BUT after his term, he basically pissed away all our towns money. This year it looks like they are going to try to get back to the way it used to be with fireworks and work on activities for the downtown again because there used to be rides and singing contests and people would travel from the next states over for this whole week long event. Once the mayor took all the money, the events the town were putting on turned into a big waste and only a 2 day event. I think it would be an EPIC idea if the pups could play at our Mayor's Cup Regatta. There is a meeting at city hall tomorrow at noonish that I am going to attend, but maybe my thoughts will fall upon deaf ears if they are all 50yr old rotary members attending. I think it would be great if they could play on the downtown stage but I understand if security reasons etc. prohibit it. There would be plenty of room for security at our civic center.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete_Civic_Center
Crete Memorial Civic Center
The Crete Memorial Civic Center is a 23,000 square foot multi-use facility. Trade shows, community events, sporting events and live entertainment events are often held. During the fall, winter, and spring months, the City’s Indoor Soccer program is in full swing on the top-of-the-line turf floor. The Crete hosts hundreds of teams every year with thousands of local residents using the facility every week.

http://www.mayorscup.com/

99.9 The Buzz Could sponsor it maybe since they are the closest radio station. They always sponsor the Higher Ground VT concerts.

Thank you

[MarixD]

I have the same idea too.
I wish they could play in Grand Rapids, MI on May 20th at the Intersection.
They are playing just down the street the day before as an opener for Nickleback, but here they can headline a show and get some more fans/converts.

[wrxracer24]

I sent an e-mail to Paul asking him to consider playing our Mayor's Cup. It'll probably be a no or I'll get no response but I tried. At least I know I attempted. Plattsburgh is really lame and all the powers that be are like 50 yr old OLD FARTS. What makes it even worse is that we have no money so our budget is a whopping $0! Tell me what you can do with that. I thought that if we could get cool bands to come, that people will travel to see them (stay at our local hotels, eat at our restaurants, and shop at our local business). I don't know the logistics of it but it sounds good on paper that a portion of the profits could go to helping the city and community. I think that would be an amazing thing for the pups to start. The pups could say that they are helping the recession and the crappy economy one city at a time. That when the pups roll in: the city benefits as well. Great PR campaign! Just like the FREE HUGS! Speakig of Paul, come to think of it the show I just went to last night I didn't see Paul ..usually he's walking around talking to people and then he makes his way over to the merch tent. He harassed me last year and thought that because I was buying all that merchandise that I was going to hawk it on EBAY... He's still their manager right? I'll keep everyone posted if I hear anything back. Maybe this could be the start of something.