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First off, thank you...
We’d like to first take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for bringing GlowRage’s PaintU Tour to your campus. We are grateful to everyone who makes the
commitment to book our act in what we know is a very competitive marketplace
and we want to work with you to make our show the very best it can be.
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We’ve put together this guide to help guide you in every step of the planning and
execution process so that our show is successful within your college environment
and to help facilitate and recommend the best solutions for each step of the process.
Detailed in this guide is everything we think you’ll need to make our show the success we know it can be. We would be grateful if you would take the time to read it
in full and to help us help you to make this a spectacular event.
Venue
The ideal space for PaintU to take place is on a stage, outdoors on an intramural
field, courtyard or other large field – so as many people can attend the party as
possible. Our paint will NOT damage or discolor grass. We CAN do shows inside –
the best spot is a large hall or gym, with a floor that can be mopped, with a capacity appropriate to the number of guests you are expecting to attend. Our events
are unlike any other – and our dance parties draw massive crowds to each event.
We try to avoid high gloss finished floors due to potential traction issues – however it can be done with additional precautions. If an event is to be held inside, the
purchaser must provide pictures or videos (preferred) of the indoor location in
their advance at least 30 days out. We use a special order flame-retardant plastic
sheeting to protect areas of concern. We cleanup all our paint related mess before our departure at the end of the show. We will also dispose of all of our safeguarding materials.
The Entertainment
We use our custom paint blasters & cannons to dowse guests with gallons of liquid glow in the dark, neon paint. Our party is focused on providing a one of a kind
experience – from the buildup to the countdown to the big paint blast. The energy
of our party cannot be replicated.
The nightly entertainment consists of 2 sectors. The Buildup: The headlining act at
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any event doesn’t start at doors opening. In the same sense we don’t start the
paint blasting near doors opening either – this allows time for plenty of people to
arrive. Typically we have our DJ build the crowd up – get them dancing, having fun
and letting loose. We’ll tease the crowd with bits of paint intermittently and raise
the energy of the party as the night progresses. The Paint Blast – typically about
halfway through the night we begin our big intro, which involves a specific song,
hype moment,and big BLAST of paint on the crowd. We dowse them with gallons
and gallons of colorful, neon GLOW paint!
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The Paint
Our paint is certified non-toxic, biodegradable and carries the Arts and Creative
Materials Institute seal. It is made in the United States, using only the highest-grade materials and is subjected to rigorous testing to ensure safety standard compliance and customer satisfaction.
Our paint is a corn based color solution and does NOT contain the following:
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Tree nuts
Peanuts
Dairy
Eggs
Wheat gluten
Natural rubber latex
Soy
Beans
Our paint is specially ordered, certified, and designed to provide you with a safe,
nontoxic and washable event. Introducing outside paint or allowing people to bring
in their own has certain health and safety issues and therefore it is strictly prohibited. We take this seriously, so please make you sure are not allowing people to
bring in outside paint to keep the event safe and fun!
Personal Paint Bottles (OUTSIDE SHOWS ONLY)
We offer bolt-on additions of paint bottles. We have a multitude of bright, neon
colors for a great price. Many find that they wish to enhance the experience of
attendees by purchasing bottles of paint for them – these may be passed out at
the door, thrown off stage as gifts or sold by the school or artist. We will gladly
accommodate these requests. Please contact us at [email protected] for
more information and pricing.
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A Dedicated Space
We always recommend that you put us in an area that is dedicated to our show
exclusively, easy to find and not too far away from anything else happening on
campus. If the event is to be held at an inside location, the room should be removed of all removable items (chairs, tables, furniture, couches, etc.) prior to our
event manager’s arrival.
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Our events have a track record of having record attendance at many colleges
nationwide. Be prepared for larger turnouts than expected and a large increase in
student involvement. Following our promotional plan is a great way to ensure the
turnout is there.
Lighting & PA
We don’t travel with DJ Gear or PA as a standard - although we do offer a very
reasonable ‘tech buy out’ which means we will provide this for you as part of the
show (ask for details as far in advance as possible). PA systems should be appropriate to the room size and should be capable of producing a clear sound with
plenty of sub bass. If you are sub-contracting a PA in we request that you have
the contractor to set-up and break down all parts of the equipment as our DJs
may not be familiar with the system provided. DJ Backline can be provided for a
buyout price listed on our rider, or included in your package when booking. Refer to
your contract and advance with us to ensure this is included.
Minimum Sound Requirements: 2-4 MAIN speakers (12”-15”), 2-4 SUB speakers
(18”-21”), a speaker monitor for the DJ (12”-15”), a microphone and a minimum
8-channel soundboard. HOOKUPS: Our DJ’s travel with a variety of gear, however
as standard rule of thumb the gear can be hooked up with RCA Cables & ¼” instrument cable.
We can provide all items necessary, just contact us in advance for a quote.
We travel with our BlackliteFX standard on each package (additional blackliteFX
available), but we recommend that schools help provide some basic onstage lighting to light the DJ. We have great lighting packages that our crew can travel to
your event with- including LED lights, strobes, lasers, scanners, movers, etc..
Electronic shows and dance parties in this day and age are heavily produced and
theme oriented. Our goal is to provide an experience to attendees that stand out
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from the rest where they can let loose, get messy and have a night they won’t
soon forget. We want to do everything in our power to ensure great production is
in place for a great event.
Stage
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We require a stage or elevated area for our party. The ideal stage is preferred
32” tall x 12’ deep x 16’ wide.
House Lighting/Emergency Lighting
If possible, choose a location where the lighting/emergency lighting can be turned
off completely. Having white-light in a ‘dance party’ environment can ruin the atmosphere so please speak with the relevant bodies at your grounds department
and ask them if they can provide location where there is no obligation to have any
white light on or where the light that is on is minimal.
Performance Times
Our preference is to always perform in the evening as this is the natural time for a
‘dance party’ to occur. However we recognize that with a lot of commuter-schools
this can’t happen. Our show can and has worked at daytime events in the past
and we will work with you to try and make this happen. However, if you have a
choice between staging the event during the day or staging it at night it will always
be an easier event to make happen at night. Our standard event has a 3 hour
runtime.
Promotions & Marketing
Our event is proven successful and works very well. We’ve had major success with
hundreds of shows each year in colleges, nightclubs, amphitheaters and large
venues across the states. If you put a crowd in front of us, they’ll be entertained
and covered in paint.
However, as artists, we can only control what happens on the stage - everything
that occurs leading up to the show is controlled by you and your staff. Which
means that the challenges involved in generating a crowd, of which there are
many, are down to you and your staff to figure out.
Poor attendances are almost always a result of poor promotion. If people don’t
know about the event, they’re never going to show up. With this in mind we’ve
come up with a few tips on how to get your promotions right.
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What To Wear?
Questions asked by most are in regards to outfits & attire for the attendees for
the event. We recommend that people wear WHITE shirts, old shorts or pants &
closed toed, inexpensive shoes. Our paint is a water soluble, non toxic, hypoallergenic and WASHABLE. Often times some schools print shirts for the event, we’ve
got some great t-shirt designs ready for this. E-mail us for them.
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Use Our Downloads
Our online promotions portal can be found at www.glowrage.com/pr.html and contains artwork which can be used royalty free. The ‘Marketing Materials’ link includes
logos, color photographs of past events and even fully designed posters to which
you just need to add your date and venue to. Use these and spread your promotional material EVERYWHERE on campus. Eight posters dotted about various
bulletin boards will not be enough. Make it so that your posters are visible at every
turn - across classes, dorms, sports halls and cafeterias – but always follow campus policy. Let us know if you have other ideas that we can help with.
Use Social Media, But Don’t Rely On It
Start a Facebook group or event, use it to network and share it with everyone
you can think of within your own network of students and friends. Have everyone
involved tweet details of the event to their followers to remind them as the date
approaches and keep all social interaction fresh and dynamic. Post links to our
promo video and use the pictures provided. It’s far easier to show people our show
in action by way of a video than it is to explain it to them in words. Spread the
video far and wide. Don’t however, assume that Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
are enough on their own. They aren’t. In our experience posters, flyers and human
interaction are still more useful tools in driving attendance to a show. Below are
some ideas for social media posts
Get ready for @GlowRage’s PaintU tour! This international touring PAINT PARTY
is making a stop at COLLEGE NAME on DATE. Wear white & get ready to #GLOW!
’#paintparty #glowrage #edm #college’
COLLEGE PAINT PARTY! Get ready for @GlowRage’s PaintU tour at COLLEGE
NAME on DATE. Wear white and get ready to get COVERED in NEON GLOW paint
but don’t worry , it washes out! #glowrage #edm #paintparty’
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Go HARD in the #paint! COLLEGE NAME are you ready to #GLOW??? @GlowRage’s PaintU is in town for ONE NIGHT ONLY on DATE. This will be one of the
biggest events we’ve thrown yet so be sure to come #party with all your friends!
Doors at TIME the DJ will warm you up until the #bigblast COVERS you with paint!
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Incentivize Attendance
Having ‘free stuff’ is a great way of helping boost attendance. Free food and drinks
works as do free giveaways. We have some fantastic t-shirt designs and we can
supply these as giveaways for an additional cost to help drive event attendance.
We can provide some logo merchandise at a low cost for giveaways to help promote the event.
Speak To The Media
GlowRage’s PaintU is such a unique show that any media are likely to want to do
a feature on the event. If you have a campus newspaper or radio/TV station or
even if you want to get the off-campus media involved we are 100% behind you
and can make our DJs available for interview, provide quotes, EPKs and biogs and
generally give any media outlet exactly what they’d need to run a great story.
Advancing the show and our rider
You will have received our rider and the main details of our show in the contract
provided by DEGY. We will always reach out to you personally approximately 2-4
weeks before show-time to re-confirm all details in advance. This is an important
aspect of making the event run smoothly on the day of the show.
Payment
Please make checks payable to “Paint University, LLC”. Preferred method: Please
place in sealed envelope for event manager post show / prior to departure. If
it must be mailed please mail to “Paint University 917 Barkley St. Pensacola, FL
32506”
Our Advance Form
Our advance form can be found here: http://www.glowrage.com/advance.html
Please fill it out at least 2-4 weeks before the show. Information requested includes hotel information, rider confirmations and additional contact information.
Some of this info you may have provided before but we always like to re-confirm
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it closer to the date. It only takes about 3 minutes to complete. Please help us by
filling this out as soon as you can.
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Our Rider
Since we are such a unique party – we also have a very unique rider. We offer
buyouts for many options as listed on the received rider. It is important to carefully
read each section, which we will break down for you below.
Show Requirements
This section of the rider details things that cannot be bought out, they are things
that MUST be provided unless prior approval is received from agency or artist. Volunteers: We request 1-2 volunteers for load-in, 3-5 for load out, 3-4 long
(25ft-50ft) extension cords, and 3-4 surge protectorss. This is to ensure we have
adequate power accessible for anything we may have to set up. Mops w/buckets
are needed for inside shows so that we can properly finish the cleanup after our
event. OSHA approved ladders must be provided any time we need to safeguard any tall truss, walls, ceilings – for many outdoor shows ladders are not necessary. Please advance with us directly.
Production Requirements
Much of this section has been reviewed above in Lighting & PA. Production is an incredibly important aspect of our event, please refer to all provided documentation
& when in doubt, just drop us a line! DJ Backline buyout applies only if not built into
booking price. Refer to DEGY contract.
Power
We need power at both the front and the back of the stage/performance - ideally
4 power outlets at both the front and the back. Until we have power we can’t begin setting up so please have this in place before our arrival.
Tables.
Please provide at least one standard 6 foot folding table for our DJs to set their
equipment up on.
Lodging & Ground Transportation
We highly prefer that the school books hotel rooms for us. Our rider calls for 2
rooms on the night of the show, however often times we find that we may split the
rooms into 1 room for 2 nights. Each room booked should be 2 beds. We also highly
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prefer to receive a $75 rental car buyout so that we do not inconvience your staff
for transportation.
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Hospitality
Typically 3-4 people are traveling, we request 2 meals (lunch & dinner) for each
crew member traveling or a $50 buyout per person. We are OK with cafeteria
meal vouchers. The drinks are for our crew, they will be working hard for you and
have requested these drinks to consume during their long work day.
Safeguarding Rider
The safeguarding rider is very important and cannot be overlooked! These are
items that we’ve found that we need provided in order to throw a successful event
and safely protect all stages, sound equipment and other surfaces. The buckets
requested should include lids.
Links
Below you will find links to our resources to assist with your GlowRage PaintU Paint
Party.
Our Website
http://www.glowrage.com
Our Purchasers Information Portal
www.GlowRage.com/pr.html - your destination for all things GlowRage. Here you
can get all the information you require to promote your event, inform your students and alert the media. All Marketing materials, logos, riders, advances, images, posters and media resources.
Social Media
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Watch our video - http://youtu.be/fJWOqV_7JEY
Facebook – www.facebook.com/GlowRage
Twitter – Follow us @GlowRage
Youtube – www.youtube.com/GlowRage
Our Representation
Degy Dance - For all enquiries related to bookings or call Jeff at 217-359-4243
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