smith@PYRITE.SOM.CWRU.EDU (Phil Smyth) (04/07/91)
Well, I was not disappointed that I went to the convention today. It was quite small, it was reported that attendence was 60 people. BUT they were all KaTe fans!!! I was told the 1st convention in Winnipeg only drew 100 people. Now I want to know where the rest of the Love_Hounds were today that they were not in attendence? Seriously I wasn't expecting anyone from a great distance to be there, but one person was in from Minnesota. Another drove up from Columbus, OH (Hi Richard!). Hey Ryan what's your excuse for not being there, you flew all the way to London for the last one and you couldn't drive accross town for this one? The event was sponsored by The American Association of Them Heavy People (an unofficial KaTe fan club (their statement) for the US) and by CD Connection of Northeast Ohio. The proprietor (Scott Sheppard) and his friend Cappy both share the honor of having been to all the previous KaTe conventions: Winnipeg, London '85 and London '90. I even spotted my picture in his convention photos. I passed my collection of photos from the convention for people to see, including the group photos of the Love_Hounds. A few of them have net access and have downloaded all of our postings and have passed them around. Andrew if I heard Cappy correctly he knows you. Cappy brought his collection of KaTe memorabilia for everyone to look at. Scott had for sale a huge assortment of albums and posters. Throughout the day videos were shown almost continously.
nrc@cbema.att.COM (Neal R Caldwell, Ii) (04/08/91)
From article <1991Apr7.032936.25865@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, by smith@PYRITE.SOM.CWRU.EDU (Phil Smyth): > Well, I was not disappointed that I went to the convention today. > It was quite small, it was reported that attendence was 60 people. > BUT they were all KaTe fans!!! I was told the 1st convention in > Winnipeg only drew 100 people. I think later they said something like 70 or 80 people had come and gone throughout the day. Considering that most of the turn out was from the Cleveland area that's not bad. Ohio is not nearly as devoid of Kate fans as some might have us beleave! :-) Actually I think they'd have done better if they had gotten word out in the OSU campus area down here a little sooner. We'll be glad to help out with that "next time". Of course when I say "we" I mean Missy. :-) > The event was sponsored by The American Association of Them Heavy People > (an unofficial KaTe fan club (their statement) for the US) and by > CD Connection of Northeast Ohio. The proprietor (Scott Sheppard) > and his friend Cappy both share the honor of having been to all > the previous KaTe conventions: Winnipeg, London '85 and London '90. I think we paid for Scott's next convention trip with the stuff we bought! :-) > Cappy brought his collection of KaTe memorabilia for everyone to look at. This was very kind. Cappy brought a lot of extremely rare stuff and let us slobber all over them. He's probably still got a lot of that stuff hanging out on the line to dry out. > Scott had for sale a huge assortment of albums and posters. At least he did until we got through. Scott wanted to auction off some of his rare collectors items but for the most part these were fans and not collectors so most items went unsold. Scott did have some very interesting promotional items. He did auction off an original stand up display from _The Kick Inside_ (you too can have Kate in your own home), an autographed promo photo, an autographed copy of _The Dreaming_ (to us), and _The Single File_ (also to us). Financial damage for the day also included the _Running Up That Hill_ 12", _Live at the Hammersmith_ on Laser Disc, and some miscellanious posters, flats and T-shirts. > Throughout the day videos were shown almost continously. There was a lot of interest in videos of the TV appearances. I wonder whether a separate video party might be in order. We also managed to win a poster in the trivia contest, mainly thanks to all the informatio available here in Love-Hounds, thanks folks. At this point I'd like to plug the _Little Light_ newsletter, which looked like an interesting forum for rational Kate discussion. Unfortunately, we seemed to have misplaced our copy. Phil, can you post the address for information about _Little Light_? It was great meeting Phil, Scott, Cappy, Jeff and all the other folks up there. We hope to do it again sometime. "Don't drive too slowly." Richard Caldwell AT&T Network Systems att!cbnews!nrc nrc@cbnews.att.com