bluemonday Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 TT entertainment is a spectacular success says someone Clicky Only 115K down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Roo Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Wow is that all! I expected it to be more, i hope to see people fired for this unpreventable fiasco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted June 26, 2009 Author Share Posted June 26, 2009 I see the headline now has BBC News replacing Newsgrot Actually it's iomtoday who have published this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hedgehog Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 I see the headline now has BBC News replacing Newsgrot Actually it's iomtoday who have published this. Well we can't really wait another fortnight before newsbot reports it can we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 The £115,000 loss needs to be balanced with the overall extra income for the fortnight otherwise the figure is meaningless unless it is compared to other years. How much did it cost to pay a gang of bike thugs/stuntmen to wreck their machines in front of the crowds, Russ Swift and his Mini cars - the cost of the boat fare alone must have run into the £1000s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piebaps Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 The £115,000 loss needs to be balanced with the overall extra income for the fortnight otherwise the figure is meaningless unless it is compared to other years. How much did it cost to pay a gang of bike thugs/stuntmen to wreck their machines in front of the crowds, Russ Swift and his Mini cars - the cost of the boat fare alone must have run into the £1000s. Fair point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millman Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 The £115,000 loss needs to be balanced with the overall extra income for the fortnight otherwise the figure is meaningless unless it is compared to other years. How much did it cost to pay a gang of bike thugs/stuntmen to wreck their machines in front of the crowds, Russ Swift and his Mini cars - the cost of the boat fare alone must have run into the £1000s. A very short sighted way to look at things. A 115k loss was for what universally has been agreed as very poor entertainment. The value of the loss is in some ways immaterial if the entertainment you pay for is good, because you make up for it by attracting people to the event in the future. The years entertainment was so poor that it has without doubt hurt the reputation of the festival and probably the numbers of those who will turn up to future events. The fact that it also lost money makes the whole thing a hundred times worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deejay Denzel Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 The £115,000 loss needs to be balanced with the overall extra income for the fortnight otherwise the figure is meaningless unless it is compared to other years. How much did it cost to pay a gang of bike thugs/stuntmen to wreck their machines in front of the crowds, Russ Swift and his Mini cars - the cost of the boat fare alone must have run into the £1000s. Fair point! about a fifth of that loss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee54 Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 On the Stu Peters show today, a question was asked, is Mr Quayle part of the family that runs a Camp Site in Glen Vine, was entertainment put on during the TT at the camp site and who paid for it. Still waiting for the answer. Man in the pub tells me that you could buy beer etc at the site, but find it hard to believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 By way of coincidence, there was a chap called Quayle (no relation) from south who made a success of the Bradda Glen pub not so long ago. He then ran the camp-site at Glen Wyllin and got done by the authorities for selling beer (at cost) during TT week to the campers. Ian soon left and emigrated to Australia. I would very, very, very much doubt that beer was allowed to be sold at that camp-site Lee. No way. ay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studmuffin Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 The entertainment in Douglas was poor but i wonder because of this how many bikers/tourists, because of this, ventured further afield. Doing the touristy thing, trains, Castle etc etc. Went for a pint in laxey, peel etc Guess it would be impossible to quantify but maybe pennies were spent in other areas rather than the bushys tent not really sure what my point is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jehovah Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 The only entertainment in town is at the Villa Morosa, the powers that be make a huge loss and end up giving it away. Piss-up and brewery are two words that spring to mind. This can't be all the fault of the politicians surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxman8180 Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 By way of coincidence, there was a chap called Quayle (no relation) from south who made a success of the Bradda Glen pub not so long ago. He then ran the camp-site at Glen Wyllin and got done by the authorities for selling beer (at cost) during TT week to the campers. Ian soon left and emigrated to Australia. I would very, very, very much doubt that beer was allowed to be sold at that camp-site Lee. No way. ay. I guess that there would be nothing wrong in say, charging £10 to see the 'entertainment' and giving every ticket holder 6 cans of beer 'free', would there? Sounds like a plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted June 27, 2009 Author Share Posted June 27, 2009 A very cunning plan. Studmuffin has a point, in a way other places outside Megacity 1 may well have benefitted from Dullsvilles lack of life. Maybe that is the way forward but to go from everything to sod all in one foul swoop doesn't seem to have been well received, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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