The DL Experience

Well that was the weekend that was.... and was it a weekend that was!  We can fortunately rely on the blogs, reviews and forum topics to tell the tale of Drummer Live 2008 from the punter on the ground (ahhh the power of the Internet).  As ever the show provides a great opportunity to meet and socialize with industry bods as well as hooking up with old friends, forum members and the good old general public. For mikedolbear.com it also provides us with the opportunity to bring you some of the most experienced people within the industry within a comfortable setting to enlighten you with their shared wisdom and experiences.  In this 5th year of running these masterclasses at Drummer Live we were unfortunately unable to provide you with the level of reliability and service we believe you deserve having parted with your entry fee.  The noise levels flooding into our masterclass "room" from the Drummer Live and Guitar Show stages within feet of our roofless boxed partition as well as the 10 minutes of utter madness every hour made for a pretty unworkable environment in which to hold educational masterclasses. 

To add insult to injury we were threatened with closure at one point on Saturday from the noise police for being too loud (and therefore told to keep the doors closed - on a roofless structure!) only to be told by the fire marshal minutes later that we would be closed down if we didn't keep the doors open as they were not regulatory doors. To add to the debacle, security on the main stage were turning our paid up VIP pass holders away from the front of the queue (a position for which they rightly paid for).

It takes a lot of hard work to organise such a massive event such as LIMS and given the size of the organising team they deserve a big pat on the back. But, and we can only comment about Drummer Live, the organisational strains such a big event put on such a small team were clearly evident.  

We have worked very hard to build up a brand and a reputation which you can trust and rely upon.  There is always a risk to a hard earned reputation where you enter into something where you have limited control and where there is a limited appetite to help you put things right for your customer. For those of you who did not get what you expected from our masterclass room and those who were turned away from the front of the queue at the main stage by security please accept our apologies.