There’s an event ticketing agency here in Leeds called Luna Tickets. Lisa and I have used them before for gigs in Leeds. Their website is the usual case of user name and password before you can access your account. All very straightforward stuff.

Last night Lisa and I received an email from Luna Tickets saying:

Your password to login to www.lunatickets.co.uk has been reset. Your new password is pissflaps. You can change this once you login to your account. You can access your account here: https://www.lunatickets.co.uk/login.php

Which was, we thought, a little bit odd since neither of us had changed the password. A visit to the Luna Tickets site showed it as down for maintenance and there was not much more we could do.

This morning an email has come through from Luna Tickets; the explanation for last night’s email was:

Lunatickets.co.uk would like to apologise to those of you that may have received an email yesterday evening regarding a change in your password settings. This email was sent in error whilst our development team were working on the security of the site, unfortunately when the team thought they were working offline they were in fact working online causing the security check to go wrong.

So a big oops from the Luna Tickets development team then. I can just imagine their gasps when they realised what they’d done. Good on them for sending out the apology though and other than their faux pas, they’ve always been a good place to get tickets.

The gap year is actually a six-month trip to Kenya. Rebecca has attained a place with Changing Worlds and is due to travel to Kenya in January 2011. Once there she’s going to be working in an orphanage, assisting in the day to day care of the children as well as helping to teach English. She’s determined that she’s going to spend her time away in a useful and beneficial way and doesn’t want to simply take an extended holiday before starting University.

Rebecca has to self-raise the funds to make her trip and this amounts to somewhere in the region of £2500.00. This is before she has to think about any personal money she needs while she’s away. The payments are made in stages and she needs to pay her next instalment by the middle of April. To make this payment she needs to find around £500.00. It’s not a fortune but it’s an amount that she hasn’t, as yet, got.

In an effort to get the money together she’s arranging Becca’s Fundraising Party on Saturday 10th April. Yes, fewer than two weeks away! Her sister Lisa works at the Leisure Centre in Slaithwaite near Huddersfield and they’ve agreed to provide the venue free. She’s managed to procure the services of a DJ but the more entertainment that there is on offer, the more people she hopes to pull in on the night. She’s started a Facebook Event page to further advertise the evening.

So, on to the purpose of this post. Rebecca needs a band or bands to do some sort of gig on the night. The audience will be mainly 17-22 year olds and will have mixed musical tastes. Obviously the whole purpose of the event is to raise money for Rebecca so she’s asking for any band to play free of charge.

I appreciate that no matter how nice you may be, I suppose it’s asking too much to play a gig without payment for a girl you don’t know as well as having to lug your gear to Slaithwaite. So this is where I come in. I’m prepared to build, host and maintain a website for a band or bands for 12 months. I’ll be able to provide email accounts and all the usual malarky. The site will be UK based and will sit on the same server as this very site your looking at now. As well as providing the site, I’ll be able to provide transport on the day for any local(ish) bands to and from the venue.

So, are there any takers out there? You get a freebie website for doing what you do in front of Rebecca and her pals. If you don’t have a gig lined up that night come and help out Rebecca in her quest to get to Kenya. If you’re up for it drop me a message by using this contact form.

Go on, you know you want to.

This year there will be Me, Lisa, Rebecca, Alyssa and Kaylie travelling down with Glasto Newbies Sarah and Simon. Significant absentees will be Lisa and Char who are still travelling in SE Asia. We’re leaving really early on Wednesday morning. Once there we’ll be meeting up with our usual Glasto mates and hopefully camping in Wicket Field again.

I’ll do a big blog post when I get back and upload all my images to my flickr account however while I’m there, battery life and signal strength permitting, I’m going to try and do a lot of twitter updates, mostly with pictures from my phone. So to keep tabs on what I’m doing at the festival, these are the places to see.

• My Posterous Site – I’m going to be emailing this site with images and a few paragraphs of text explaining what’s happening.
• My Twitter Site – My Twitter Account – I’ll be using text messages to send those tweets that don’t have attached images.
• My Flickr Page – The same images will appear here.
• My Tumblelog – Again the same images will be mirrored here.
• My Lifestream – The whole shaboodle will be aggregated here

So. See you when I get back!

If you do, they have to be in your own music library.

The opportunity presents itself to me since we are going away for the weekend camping in Derbyshire. We’re stopping at a camp site provided by a pub called Bull i’ th’ Thorn near Buxton. I think there’ll be about 15 of us made up of all the gang who usually meet up at Glastonbury.

So here’s the plan. Tomorrow I’m going to catalogue my day on Twitter via my camera phone and Posterous. The day itself is pretty much mapped out in advance so you can marvel at my schedule from the comfort of your own computer chair:

• 07.30am – Get up, probably take Lisa to work.
• 10.00am – Take Becca to College
• 11.00am – Do my daily website maintenance
• 14.30pm – Collect Becca and her mate Squidgy from College
• 16.30pm – Set off for Buxton
• 18.30pm – Arrive Buxton, meet up with Lisa and Sarah
• 19.00pm – Beer, BBQ, Mates, Field, Pub, Who Knows…

Nothing too thrilling there I know but at least there’s a bit of variety for me to get my teeth into. It all starts tomorrow at 7.30am. How exciting!