Borneo Buskers Fest Again

[Humanoid Gone Mad]

After briefly going into negotiations with Borneo Buskers fest about 3 or 4 months ago and then hearing nothing more from them I have just recieved the following (yes another rather loose and obscure email):

Hi,
Please reply our mail.

We have changed the festival to 27.12.& 28.12. for 2 days only.

Pls let us know if you can come.

Thanks.
Leonard


Does anyone have any further info about these people? Has any had simillar mail or confirmed booking with them?
Or does anybody have a contact phone number for them?

Cheers Toby.

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[Pyromancer]

Hey Toby,

I might have it at home. Will be able to find out this Saturday. I received an e-mail that I was welcome to come months ago, after they just saw my website. I decided to send them a video anyway. That was before I left for Canada. I never heard from them again.

I hate to be impolite and I don't like spreading gossip and other kinds of hatred, but at the moment I am tempted to think that the festival organizers don't really know their ways in how to maintain their contacts in a proper manner. And if I cannot be a firebreather anymore, I'll become a diplomat.

But I'd be happy to fly to Malaysia, if they just pay me for my ticket and make sure it's valuable for a year. I'm at the airport at the moment, to leave Thailand and I hate to leave. I hope to go back as soon as possible. What's their e-mail adress again, Toby?

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David Pyromancer

[one man band]

hi toby, hi david!
the organizers of the borneo festival had contacted me way back in the spring and confirmed my participation. then in july they reconfirmed and asked me which airport i would be using, which was the last time i heard anything from them.
in october i wrote them two emails asking what was going on and i got no reply whatsoever, i mean zero!
this guy displayed an extraordinary lack of style.

nevertheless i wish him and everybody participating in his festival the best of luck and a fantastic time in borneo.

ciao for now
bernard m. snyder


[quote]Originally posted by Pyromancer:
<strong>Hey Toby,

I might have it at home. Will be able to find out this Saturday. I received an e-mail that I was welcome to come months ago, after they just saw my website. I decided to send them a video anyway. That was before I left for Canada. I never heard from them again.

I hate to be impolite and I don't like spreading gossip and other kinds of hatred, but at the moment I am tempted to think that the festival organizers don't really know their ways in how to maintain their contacts in a proper manner. And if I cannot be a firebreather anymore, I'll become a diplomat.

But I'd be happy to fly to Malaysia, if they just pay me for my ticket and make sure it's valuable for a year. I'm at the airport at the moment, to leave Thailand and I hate to leave. I hope to go back as soon as possible. What's their e-mail adress again, Toby?

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David Pyromancer</strong><hr></blockquote>

[Pyromancer]

I sent them an e-mail again and didn't hear from them either. But bear in mind that only infections move fast in the tropics. It's unhealthy to maintain the speed what we are used to...

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[Lee Nelson]

Well I am sure absolutely noone cares about these people anymore but I thought I'd give you all a update. First of all it did happen. I have just returned from the jungles of Borneo with only a mild tropical rash and a lingering case of Dengue Fever. My partner wasnt so lucky, dont and out with pneumonia for another week yet.
So, What was it like???? once we arrived the organisation was actually quite good, 5 pitches with people organising each one, beautiful location and excellent audiences. English is these peoples first language (along with 4 others) so had I realised this before the end of the festival we wouldnt have done our entire show to music without words but we probably wouldnt have learned as much either. They do pay you, came as a surprise to me as well!!!
The organiser Leonard Sabu is not really a Rev. as I had him pictured, more of a part time God-botherer who is like a Borneo J of P.
The city you perform in is Kuching (200000 people. Made up of 60% Muslim and 40% Christian people which makes audience participation stuff fun. They put you up in a 5star hotel and at the end of the festival they just kept taking us out for days and days. One day the Longhouses, next the monkey parks, then the beach etc and the one constant was being constantly taken out for food. For those of you who travel Asia would know that the best thing when your travelling Asia is to have a person who actually knows where the good food is.
Only one other Western performer had the patience to wait out the terrible communication from Borneo and the rest of the lineup where locals competing for $1000 prize. These were acts I could have watched forever, well some of them anyway.
Oh well, Ive rambled enough. Pretty good fun all up and a good laugh if you want to see the headhunting people of Borneo and shoot a blowpipe or two without touching your own wallet. It sounds as though it might become a regular event and it bloody well should be with the amount of politicians hands I was forced to shake in the effort to secure funding to make it bigger in coming years. Who knows, maybe it will become a fixture!!!
Lee

[Pyromancer]

[quote]Originally posted by daisy and derek:
<strong>Only one other Western performer had the patience to wait out the terrible communication from Borneo</strong><hr></blockquote>

I wish it had needed just patience... I'd love to have jumped the plane to Malaysia... I hoped 'till the last moment as I hate winter and would have loved to escape. Alas... Maybe another time?

David Pyromancer

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