I already contacted them last year thanks to madfiddler telling me about this, and they just took CDs off me and never got back. So I'm laughing to see them in trouble, frankly. Up their own tight arses, all of them.
Your website wrote:From the creative team that brought you the ground breaking Dear Friends-Music from FINAL FANTASY Symphony Tour, comes an entirely new celebration of video game music and images.
Entirely new except for everyone else that's been doing it for years... like that DVD we did in that classical concert hall with the big screen.... what was that now...?
I actually had tickets to see it here in Phoenix but when I showed up the venue was closed and empty. They never emailed me or called me let me know it was cancelled. GRRR! Then they had the balls to email me later to suggest I purchase more tickets to their rescheduled show!
Chris Abbott wrote:Up their own tight arses, all of them.
Chris
Which is one of the reasons I left GANG which is the 'professional' organisation the same people set up for Games Musicians and Sound Designers.
Had a funny run in with the organiser on the VGM list where one of his spies reported back to him... so watch out, one of his spies could be here... lol.
Four of us at our company bought tickets for the Vancouver (Canada) show - in the end two of us dropped out, and it seems we didn't miss much (apart from our $70 CAD).
We figured it wasn't going to be the 'extravaganza' it was billed as - the day before the show Ticketmaster still had tickets available in row 5!
A shame really - but to be honest, I only heard thru a friend of a friend about the thing in the first place - and I work in the games industry - IN AUDIO!
Pathetic advertising - no wonder they cancelled so many shows - I think the Vancouver one was the last one, and they didn't cancel because it was too late!
madfiddler wrote:Lol - do you Jax, where? Not EAC? I'm in the industry too.. in Audio
I was at EAC - worked on the first Bond game there (Agent Under Fire), before moving across to the Def Jam team and doing the lead audio programing on Vendetta and Fight for New York. They were fun games to work on (despite me not liking fighting games or rap music ) - I jumped ship to Propaganda (owned by Buena Vista / Disney now), but I'm still in audio programming.
Are you at EAC, Mad Fiddler?
EDIT: Dumb Jax - as your location is "Scotland", I don't suppose you *are* at EAC
Are there any ex-Red Lemon guys there? I had a (miserable) stint up there - too much 'other stuff' going on in my life at the time - loved the city and the people, though (Glasgow). The company was a bit too 'flashy' though - fancy offices, etc., but no real product
(I'll remember to hail you correctly in the future, madfiddler...)
I remember Cropper joined just after I did - he left nVidia, relinquishing a bunch of options with them just before they sky-rocketed - he would have seen a few hundred K if he'd hung on there - I think it was about the time they announced the deal to provide the Xbox hardware... oh well, he got to work at the Lemon instead...
Did Tom Higgins end up there?
So what are you guys working on right now, or is it 'hush hush'...?
(Gah - what's the point of writing this now - you're Scottish, so you're probably half-lashed in some pub and won't be up until noon tomorrow! Lucky sod!)
