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Felixwah
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Joined: 13 Jul 2006
Posts: 1887
Location: Northwich/manchester
PostPosted: Wed 11th Oct, 2006 3:25 pm    Post subject: Jobs Reply with quote
Rite just wondering if anyone out there has actually got work doing poi? say in a club because im sure many of you would agree that doin poi for money would be a dream job. just wondering if anyone has actually done it and how they got to do it?? Smile
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Aimée



Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 70
PostPosted: Wed 11th Oct, 2006 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yep yep Smile

I'm in a group called Hastings Spin, as surprisingly enough - we all live in Hastings.

We do gigs at pubs and clubs and things.

And I'm not sure if you know of the De La Warr Pavillion? Famous-ish building in Bexhill that got an 8million pound refurbishment. We span at the re-opening of that last year. 2000 people watching you spin is one of the most nerve racking things I've ever done!

Basically we had meets in the local park, more people got interested, word got around and we started doing gigs Smile

We now have super cool t-shirts, with our names on that make us look oh-so-professional Laughing

On saturday some of us are spinning in the Hastings bonfire night parade. 50000 people in total will be there Shocked :D

xx
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JaS



Joined: 08 Jul 2006
Posts: 142
Location: Brighton
PostPosted: Wed 11th Oct, 2006 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
cool! what's the pay like? obviously it varies but yeah
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Smiley



Joined: 25 Jul 2006
Posts: 113
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
PostPosted: Thu 12th Oct, 2006 6:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
For me its just all about having fun Smile
And that it is for sure, although I'm just a happy amateur so thats not so strange either Smile

Would be a nice extra job I guess, making money doing something you even like doing for free :P
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Aimée



Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 70
PostPosted: Thu 12th Oct, 2006 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
You're right the pay does vary.
We're currently unisured, so we can't exactly demand an exact payment, so we give our 'clients' so to speak a rough number and its up to them how much they give us.

We gone from being paid in beer, to a tenner each, to up to 50 over the past year.
Just have to keep working for it!
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