[matilda] global warming gig

[Joe Public]

Basically the gig on Friday was sold to us as a gig, a benefit for global 
warming*. It's apparently now being advertised as an all night party, with 
soundsystems.

Firstly, we weren't told about this. They were exceptionally vague, 
neglecting to mention that it was a benefit for a socialist youth group (I 
don't particularly care, but I feel that we should have been told where the 
money was going) or that they planned to put on a party, basically.

Secondly, I don't know what we're meant to do. I'll help out with a gig, but 
not a free party. It's late that it'll be shit to tell them they can't have 
a soundsystem, but maybe that's what we have to do. Parties are well beyond 
what the gig collective do, and I'm not up for staying up all night herding 
pilled-up Trot kids away from live wires/big holes/etc, especially because 
its the anarchist book fair in Manchester the next day.

So... what is general opinion on this? Pancho and I can work the gig (I 
haven't talked to Nick and Helene yet), but not a party, so we'd need lots 
of Matilda people for that to happen. I can't do much more than turn up on 
Friday because I have a full week of university work, Nick & Helene are 
presumably still recovering from the film fest and Pancho is playing gigs 
this week.

Kathleen


*That this turned out to mean 'raising money for a fossil-fuel powered bus 
down to a march in London' is beside the point, right?