A Day With the Stars

In The Beginning:

A couple concert-starved, crazy employees began to throw around an equally crazy plan.
The result = The Really Bright Idea of 2006.

The Plan:

Promote a city that is just recovering from the infectuous disease of economic decline by convincing a punk band of hometown boys --in the middle of an international tour-- to throw us a concert, for free. Oh yes, and convince them to perform their 10+ year old hit song "Move to Bremerton" for the media as a promotional/marketing gimic for the city.


(Above: Yuri, Tom, Mayor Bozeman and Mike- the band is receiving keys to Bremerton)

The Panic:

After months of correspondance with the band, worried panic huddles at work, and 500 promotional concert fliers pasted all over the region, everything was in place an ready to go!

Yesterday we met MxPx in downtown Bremerton and organized a whole afternoon with them-- which included the band receiving keys to the city from the Mayor, touring our condo site, sharing dinner with us at a great local place and performing LIVE at the Admiral Theatre. I even gave some them (or at least some of them) a ride in my '94 Aerostar Van (affectionately named the Jesus Mobile for all my mom's religious perephenalia).

(Tom is looking over downtown Bremerton from our condo site)

It was awesome. It went smoothly. I got a free T-shirt....


(Jessie and I are talking with the guys after the show with my boss)