SFX the Event 2004 will be held on 4th - 6th June at the Hilton Metropole Hotel, London.
Ticket prices for an adult start at £47.50 and go up to £255.00 - child price tickets start at £32.50 and go up to £47.50. The SFX After Awards Party ticket price is £105.00.
For more information go to the SFX website.
Guests appearing have been announced as:-
ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL - The Dead Zone
AARON DOUGLAS - Chief Petty Officer Tyrol (Battlestar Galactica)
GREG GRUNBERG - Eric Wiess (Alias)
PETER WILLIAMS - Apophis - Stargate
KRISTEN DALTON - Dana Bright - The Dead Zone
DOMINIC KEATING - Malcolm Reed - Star Trek Enterprise
Full Version: SFX The Event 2004
Oh dear! The SFX Event this year was a total washout. I was so disappointed with the line up. For a start, from those listed above, only KRISTEN DALTON and DOMINIC KEATING actually turned up!
DEAN HAGLUND, CHRIS BARRIE and BILLY BOYD were added to the collection along with DAVID PALFFY and surprise guest SUANNE BRAUN, but overall, the event left a lot to be desired.
Dean, Chris and in particularly Dominic Keating proved to be the most funny and witty of entertainers, and I was impressed.
Saturday attendees probably amounted to some 250 over the course of the day and on Sunday only about 100 or so people attended. The atmosphere was extremely muted and I hate to say it ... it was BORING, save for Dean, Chris and Dominic. When you think when SFX first started a couple of years ago, their first event in Blackpool attracted some 4,000 attendees each day! I seriously think that SFX the magazine and Wolf Events, who run the event for SFX need to step back, and think about their next event next year.
It's one of the only events I have been to where the only FREE autograph anyone was entitled to was getting the Event booklet signed. Everything else needed to be paid for. When you consider that it was some £77 to attend the whole weekend event, one free autograph on one peice of official merchandise is not an unreasonable thing to expect. I had wanted to get Chris to sign my Red Drawf DVD cover - an official piece of merchandise from the BBC, but if I did, I was expected to pay another £10 for it. I had already bought an official event photo of Chris which I was getting signed. In the end, my Red Drawf DVD cover came home with me unsigned. I'm now hoping that Showmasters who run the extemely popular, Collectormania events in Milton Keynes get Chris to attend one of their events, as there is NO admittance fee so paying for your autographs is the only thing you have to pay out for.
I seriously doubt that I will attend another SFX event ... unless drastic changes are made.
DEAN HAGLUND, CHRIS BARRIE and BILLY BOYD were added to the collection along with DAVID PALFFY and surprise guest SUANNE BRAUN, but overall, the event left a lot to be desired.
Dean, Chris and in particularly Dominic Keating proved to be the most funny and witty of entertainers, and I was impressed.
Saturday attendees probably amounted to some 250 over the course of the day and on Sunday only about 100 or so people attended. The atmosphere was extremely muted and I hate to say it ... it was BORING, save for Dean, Chris and Dominic. When you think when SFX first started a couple of years ago, their first event in Blackpool attracted some 4,000 attendees each day! I seriously think that SFX the magazine and Wolf Events, who run the event for SFX need to step back, and think about their next event next year.
It's one of the only events I have been to where the only FREE autograph anyone was entitled to was getting the Event booklet signed. Everything else needed to be paid for. When you consider that it was some £77 to attend the whole weekend event, one free autograph on one peice of official merchandise is not an unreasonable thing to expect. I had wanted to get Chris to sign my Red Drawf DVD cover - an official piece of merchandise from the BBC, but if I did, I was expected to pay another £10 for it. I had already bought an official event photo of Chris which I was getting signed. In the end, my Red Drawf DVD cover came home with me unsigned. I'm now hoping that Showmasters who run the extemely popular, Collectormania events in Milton Keynes get Chris to attend one of their events, as there is NO admittance fee so paying for your autographs is the only thing you have to pay out for.
I seriously doubt that I will attend another SFX event ... unless drastic changes are made.
Blimey!!
thats sounds grim
I think its shocking when they make out theres going to be all these big names etc.......trade describtions, you should write to watch dog, seroiusly!!!
like you said, a lot of money to pay for being disapointed.
thats sounds grim
I think its shocking when they make out theres going to be all these big names etc.......trade describtions, you should write to watch dog, seroiusly!!!like you said, a lot of money to pay for being disapointed.
To be honest most conventions state: "guests appear subject to work" so if they cancel because of work commitments, attendees just have to take it on the nose, so to speak. And usually most convention organisers try to get other guests to take the place of those who have cancelled.
One of the things that annoy me about Wolf Events, who run the SFX Event for the magazine is that they never make a proper announcement that "xyz" has cancelled one of their events - they just add the names of those who have cancelled to the list at the bottom of their guest page.
One of the things that annoy me about Wolf Events, who run the SFX Event for the magazine is that they never make a proper announcement that "xyz" has cancelled one of their events - they just add the names of those who have cancelled to the list at the bottom of their guest page.
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