I went to see Garbage at Wolverhampton Civic Hall with William Cheung seat M 58
Peter Bargh
Sights & Sounds
Hama celebrated their 75th Anniversary with the press and dealers by taking us to Monheim, Germany. We flew on Lufthansa LH 4595 from Heathrow to Munich and stopped in Wemding. The trip included a trip around the Hama Distribution Centre and a night at the Hausmesse
Hosts
Nick Grey, David Murray
Press attending
Peter Bargh
Dealers
Jason Mitchell,
I was invited to be a judge on Create! – a program, presented by Alasdair Scott and filmed at a small studio in Brixton. It was shown on satellite tv and had two contestants, Helen Niland and Adrian Parr, who competed in a head to head Photoshop challenge, while myself and Steve Caplin watched and commented on their progress and then chose a winner. It was my first appearance in front of a camera and was an enjoyable, but long day to film a 30min piece.
I kept the story board to show how the program was panned and ran.
I saw Spiritualized at Rock City in Nottingham with Chris Robinson if I remember rightly
Ticket no 824
Receiving a cheque for sale of three photos to an Photo CD library was a good feeling on this day.
The 1998 PMA confernece was in New Orleans, United States. I flew from London to Housten, and then on Flight CO 1631 Housten to New Orleans. I was editor representing Digital PhotoFX.Today I found myself on stage in front of the entire Apex House publishing teams performing a few songs we rehearsed for a few weeks before hand. I was with my designer Chris and Marketing manager Tim, plus his assistant Rani and several other people from other magazines in a band we’d named Things in Black.
I’m not sure the reworded Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da to Publishers we Love you was a cool thing to do but Chris and I just went along with the whole thing and quite enjoyed the moment.
The line up wasTim Hunt Guitar Vocals
Peter Bargh (me of course) Keyboards
Chris Robinson Guitar
Grianne Jones Vocals
Rani Sanghera Vocals
Mandy Campbell Vocals
Kevin Maxwell Double Bass
Can’t remember who the drummer was 🙁
After the gig, which seemed to go down quite well, we received a cool letter from MD Lloyd Wigglesworth.
For many years Olympus hosted an Editors Challenge where a competition took place and the winner received the Editors Challenge Trophy with their name added.
In 1998 it was in Liscombe Park, England.
The competition was driving a number of military vehicles including Tanks, Agile Rapier, Ferrets and Stalwarts
Rifle shooting and speed assembly
Paintballing
Hosts
Sara Cubbett,
Press Attending
Peter Bargh, Martyn Moore, Damien Demolder
Ilford’s Christmas Press Lunch was at The Ivy (in The Private Room) in London, England
Very posh restaurant with an equally posh set menu – sadly I was vegetarian at the time so I didn’t get to enjoy what would have been a beautifully cooked piece of meat. Pasta anyone?