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Party Review for Pearl Easter Party 1994
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  | Diskmagazine |   Ram Jam1001 Byte - 2fast - ACBS - ... | a6/94 added 6/95 |
#3 PEARL EASTER CONFERENCE 1994 #1
By Dvize / Kronical
The Pearl Easter Conference '94
(appropriately named Uncle Beavers
Summer Camp!) took place in Adelaide
on the 2nd and 3rd of April, of the
year 1994. It ended a long drought of
Australian scene parties and got the
Aussie scene excited at the prospect
of entering their work into a compo
and meeting some of the Aussie scenes
more famous members. However,
expectations were never achieved and
turned what could have been a great
scene party, into a dull and
controversial 24 hours.
Before I continue with this report it
should be said that Pearl had guts to
try and hold such a party. They made
a brave attempt and in my view,
they're ideas for the party seemed
quite good, if only they had attempted
to get them going.
Groups present at the party were...
Pearl (ofcoz!)
Frontier
Digital Access
Kronical
Alchemy
Spectre
Resistance
The Fun Factory
(80 - 90 in attendance!)
* NOTE * As you can see, the
attendance may not be much to European
standards, but in Australia, with a
scene as small as ours, it was a
considerably big turn out, especially
from interstate party goers.
#2THE PARTY PLACE :. #1
The party place was cool. It was (as
Pearl said in their invite!) close to
everything. Less than 5 minutes walk
to the heart of the city. The hall
was big enough to cater for the people
in attendance, plus a few more. Table
and chairs were in abundance and there
were enough power points to go around.
There was a large projector for the
watching of cool demos all night. It
was nice to see some effects on a
large scale. 4 ft high vectors etc.
look amazing!
#2THE EVENTS :.#1
Ofcoz there was demo/music/gfx compos,
but what about some other fun compos
to keep the crowd happy? It was
advertised in the PEARL invite that
pool comps, disk throwing comps, video
game comps, and on the spot
music/gfx/intro comps MAY be held, but
none of these happened. Fuck I got
bored at times!
#2THE VOTING :. #1
This is what fucked the party!!!
Pearl was undecided on the voting
system 5 minutes before the
competitions began. Their decision
turned out to be a bad one. It was
decided, that after all the entries
were shown/heard, the names would be
read out and the voters put up their
hands to which they liked the best.
When people started voting for several
tunes/pics, voting for themselves and
forcing others to vote for certain
people, most knew the compos were a
joke! The music compo was worst in my
view as it was difficult to remember
tunez played first which gave them a
disadvantage. The worst part of the
music compo was that TINY/PEARL came
3rd by entering ELEKFUNK by
MOBY/SANITY. He simply changed a few
notes and samples and thought he could
get away with it! LAMER! After
hearing the first 2 or 3 patterns, I
told them to stop the mod, got up and
loaded Moby's tune up on my computer
to show it was ripped. Everyone
agreed, and no-one voted for him (he
should have been kicked out of the
compo!!!), yet, Pearl gave him 3rd
place. Was his picture ripped too?
I was extremely disappointed with
Pearls lack of organisation at the
party. It seemed that they forgot
that people travelled for over 12
hours (DIGITAL ACCESS = 18 hours!) and
spent a lot of money to support their
party. They seemed to give up on
trying to hold the party together and
when they majority of the Pearl team
left 6 hours before the official
finished time it didn't give the
attending people good impressions.
Even the young unknown guys stuck
around longer than the organisers!!!
I was cool to meet people you know
only from the phone and letters and to
meet some new guys, which made it
worth while for me to attend. But as
a scene party, it was a joke.
#2MESSAGES : #1
Pearl : Think twice before holding
Uncle's Beaver again!!!
Rabbi/Pearl : Thanks for being cool
all night, for picking us up from the
train station and for the lend of the
monitor. Thanks for driving us to buy
food and beer. (Not! hehe)
Alchemist/Pearl : Cool that you made
an effort to make the party a success.
Deadlock/Kronical
Mickey-D/Kronical
Felon/Kronical : Thanks for the
coolest train ride in history and for
making the party worth-while. You
know the deal!
Digital Access : Nice demo guys. You
guys are way cool!!! Keep in touch?
Spectre : Thanks for livening up the
place and for hospitality (Onslaught!)
Tiny/Pearl (ex-TFF) : How did you
think you could get away with it?
LAMER!
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#3 PEARL PARTY 94 #1
#2 Competition Information File #1
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#2DEMO COMPETITION: #1
pos demo-name group
#21st-"Guru Meditation" Digital Access
#12nd-"Wing And A Prayer" Spectre
3rd-"Industrial Fudge" Frontier
Info: Competition rules stated that
demo must work on an A500 1.3 with
512k chip mem. Although Frontier's
demo recieved the most votes, they
were unable to claim the prize because
it didn't work on that setup (it
worked on an A1200 though).
Pearl's demo, "Eclipse", was not
finished in time for the comp. It
will be released sometime in the
future.
Neither Spectre or Frontier released
their demos at the party because they
wanted to fix some bugs. They'll be
available soon.
#2GRAPHICS COMPETITION: #1
pos picture-name artist
#21st-"NeverAgain" Sumaleth/Pearl
#12nd-"TheCure" Souri/DigitalAccess
3rd-"Zepplin" Tiny/Pearl
4th-"Repa" Scar/Frontier
5th-"FudgeFactory" RePo/Frontier
Info: Scar's picture was not released
at the party because they went home
without giving us a copy ;-). We'll
get it as soon as we can.
#2MUSIC COMPETITION: #1
pos module-name musician
#21st-"Solitude2" Deadlock/Kronical
#12nd-"Eclipse" AstroBoy/Pearl
3rd-"FunkeeGitar" Tiny/Pearl
4th-"Step It Up.." Ginseng/Alchemy
"Where R .." S.J.B/Frontier
6th-"Dissonance" Dvize+MickyD/Kronical
Info: Neither of Frontier's mods were
released at the party for the same
reason as the gfx comp. Doh.