UNIFEST 2011

This was the 2nd time I’m helping out in a music event after Love Life Love Music in the UK. This time was the UNIFEST, a music festival which celebrates the University status for students each year. As our company is celebrating its 25th Silver Jubilee this year, we planned for a bigger UNIFEST this year round on 21st May 2011. The theme is – ‘The Rise of Rhythm’.

This time round I have more responsibility as the advisor of the event. I am very fortunate to have a group of dedicated students in organising this event and make it happen! Although sometimes the students are quite hard to deal with..their attitude! LOL….well, that’s a learning process for me though..in dealing with the hard to deal with people :P

It was a tough journey before the event. A lot of restrictions and hiccup here and there. Pending of decisions and permission especially on the sponsorships and licensing. Promotions and publicity was a tough job due to the pending of green light. Looking for artist was also a challenge as we’re targeting a 4 thousand people but the budget is limited. Fortunately, we get to call in a few pretty famous artists for this event.

We were all very worried that we will not have crowd because it was raining heavily an hour before the event. Luckily the rain gets lighter and we're seeing the crowd coming in with their raincoats on. we thought everything should be alright..but just then..Suddenly, we heard people shouting..'call ambulance!! get ambulance now!!' I was shocked!! I ran to where the voice and shouting came from..and see what has gone wrong. A student of mine, who was the student organising chairperson was lying on the floor (the grass). She fell from the stage which was 10 feet high because she did not take caution on the steps. They called the St John Ambulance which we hired for the night (well, they are suppose to be here 30minutes ago but still on their way). So I called the emergency 999 for Ambulance. At the end, the emergency Ambulance came before the St John Ambulance (which came after we send the patient off to the hospital). Luckily she was not seriously injured.

The lined up artistes are Mizz Nina, One Buck Shot, Ruffneckz, Kyoto Protocol, Reza Salleh, Shawn Lee, Alexis Gan, Bus Co., An Honest Mistake, Nicky C (DJ), and the emcees for the night were Megan & Naqib from the 8TV’s Quickee.

Although it rains before the event started, there were almost 1 thousand people flocked in the event field with their raincoats on. The first show by Mizz Nina attracts more audiences and the quantity almost reaches 3 thousand. Follow by other performances…they were all great! Especially when it comes to the part where Shawn Lee got the crowd crazy with his beatboxing skills! Very talented young boy! Well done Shawn! The show went on..and ends with the dance floor music by Nicky C which was a bit too techno..but I think the crowd still enjoy the whole event…*phew~

All tickets were given out (about 4 thousand in total) and the lucky winner got his free I-phone for the lucky draw and a few got the hampers and other gifts from our sponsors! Congrats and thanks to our sponsors! Maxis being our main sponsor, Lipton, Fudgeez, Sony Music, Ayam Brand, Laurent Bleu and Dutch lady.

It was a successful event as we have received massive compliments from the people who came.
Thank you everyone for making this event a success especially the committees! It’s a pleasure working with you guys!

THANK YOU!