It’s far too early to plan this thing in any details, so let’s start planning this thing in detail.
If you were to come to FAILcamp what would you talk about? What sort of story would you tell?
No need to tell the actual story here – just give us an idea of where your mind is at.
I spent 5 years at university, managed to get a Foundation Degree (in 2 years instead of 1) and then never managed to make it past my 1st ‘proper’ year. I class myself as a big lump of fail!
I keep on truckin’ though
I’m sorry, persistance, is what I wish to talk about. I will get my degree one day. One day……….
the field of performing arts should be well ripe for fail talk – i certainly have stuff to say about performing arts failure.
On a more positive note, something i’ve wanted to see / run myself for a while is a place / night for *genuinely* (as opposed to just using the word as a genre type) experimental music; ‘fizzle’ was almost there for a time, but quickly became a place where the quality of the musicians was so good & polished that it was difficult to believe any genuine experimentation was going on; if the musicians are being truly experimental, then epic – & public – fails occasionally ’should’ be inevitable.
I think that FAILCamp should change the venue and time at the last minute without telling anyone and subsequently have no-one turn up. Proper fail.
Well, yes, I have a performing arts fail under my belt – three years at drama school, seven weeks of professional acting. But I don’t see that as a fail it truly was a whole bunch of experiences that I continue to draw on (in fact I was only talking this evening about an impro class i did in 1985)
I guess I’d have to mention the social media club night when nobody turned up – http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/03/05/billy-no-mates/
There’s also deeper, darker stuff in understanding why I now spend so much of my time building relationships and helping others to do so (ie I’ve been really crap at it in the past but at some point I chose to practice and practice until I got better)
Also my guitar-playing failure led to me taking up the ukulele (thinking, correctly, that four strings are simpler than six)
Failure – it’s the real thing. Everything else is hype.
Inspired by this I am preparing to spend the summer undertaking a fail of manageable proportions that could be easily conveyed in a short talk at your event. In that sense I see Failcamp as a catalyst for failure in itself.
I’m happy to do a talk on failing in the music business. Along with the usual hard luck rubbish – which I won’t go into – I have plently of other examples of how we’ve shot our own feet off.