LOOPING TOUR of EUROPE/BRITISH ISLES 2003 (Looking for loopers to play with)

["Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>]

Hi Loopers in Europe and the British Isles,

I am embarking on a solo live looping tour of Europe and
the British Isles this coming summer.

I already have dates tentatively in Sweden, Germany,Switzerland, Italy,
France, the British Isles and Spain.

I would love it if anyone would be interested in
helping me to find a gig or produce a LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL
in your home town during my trip.

I will probably be in Sweden for the last two weeks of May;
in Northern Continental Europe for the first couple of weeks
of June,  in the British Isles for the last couple of weeks of
June and in Southern Europe for the first couple of weeks of July.
These times are still tentative and will solidify as more dates
get booked.

I would love to book more gigs in Norway, Finland, Holland, Denmark, 
Belgium
and Germany.  I would also love to book a gig or two in Scotland which I
would
dearly love to visit.

How I'm doing most shows is joining a local looper who will do a solo set,
then I will do a solo set and then we will finish off the evening
(or afternoon) with a duet improvisational set.

What I would need from anyone willing to help me book a gig would would be:

1) for you to book a venue for a performance:
    a) in can be a paid performance or a free performance whichever is the
         easiest to produce
    b) I have a lot of experience booking gigs and festivals so I can 
advise
you
        if you feel like taking on such a project but don't have experience
yourself
    c) the venue could be:  a house concert, a pub, a coffeeshop, a
bookstore
                            a museum, an art gallery, a nightclub, an
outdoor
                            ampitheater.........IT DOES NOT have to be a
typical
                            place for presenting music........I have
convinced
                            many coffee shops and bookstores to host a free
concert.

2)  to have a place for my wife and I to stay (including throwing a 
sleeping
bag)
      that is a CAT-FREE environment (because I am deathly allergic to the
cute
      little creatures)  or recommendations for an inexpensive hotel that 
we
      can stay at.
3)  willingness to publicize the gig (which I can help with as my new
website
      should be launching at the start of the new year with photos, vid
clips,
      audio clips, bios and press)
4)  P.A. speakers, an amplifier and , hopefully (but not necessarily)
monitors
    (I will be travelling with a Mackie 1402 mixer, microphones, effects 
and
instruments).


If more than one looper from your town or area participates we can call the
show
a Looping Festival which will allow us to get two to three times as much
publicity
and two to three times as many people.

Please e-mail me off list if this interests you or if you want to help me
out.

<Rick Walker's LOOP.POOL> GLOBAL@cruzio.com

I will, of course, be willing to do the same thing here in California for
anyone
who helps me out.

I look forward to meeting you and gigging with you.

yours, appreciatively,  Rick Walker