THE PLAN
so we have bought a school bus that cost about $5000. we are going to transform it into a home on wheels for 34 people. these 34 people will be 9 bands and five staff members. then we will go on tour and do an all-day fest in 29 different cities across the midwest, south and east coast.

DAYTIME EVENTS
we want the day's activities to start at about 11:00-12:00 each day. we want the early daytime events to be arranged by the local promoters with our help sometimes. the kind of events will be up to the promoters. we want each day to be different. some ideas: workshops, skill shares, speakers, swap meets, acoustic open mics, puppet theater, real theater, movies, kickball games, 4-square, vegan bbq, chili cook off, 3-legged race, tug of war, dance contests, water balloon wars... get it? we want these events to last until about 4-5:00 each day and then the music will start. we want 2 local bands to play each show. you can chose. (we might have input sometimes. we would like cool local bands that agree with the DIY ethic and hopefully have a draw. we don't want favorites to be played here. we want the coolest and best possible band to be picked to play each show.)

NIGHTIME MUSIC SHOW & EQUIPMENT NEEDS
the music will last until around 12:00am. all of the bands on our bus will be sharing EQ and set up time will be about 10 minutes in between bands, and sets will range from 15-25 minutes each. it will really quick and diverse. (and fun too, i hope). it would be great if the local bands could share EQ with us too. all they need to bring is their own cymbals, snare drum, drum sticks and guitars. then everyone goes home happy. and more than likely we will have to drive through the night to make it in time for the next show. (sometimes we may ask for lodging or at least a place to park the bus)

we will need a PA and 6 mics. the mixer needs at least 6 inputs. we would like a nice and loud PA at every show. (if you have to rent a PA, that's fine. you can take it out of the door money). it's just very important to have good vocals and bands like defiance, ohio use the PA fro violin and cello etc. we will bring everything else we need.

ABOUT VENUES
it's fine if the daytime events are in a separate locations (like the day time stuff can be in a park). we would like the to locales to be close together (walking distance, please). if the venues are the same, we would like to take a 1 hour break between events. the night time venue will obviously need to be okay for loud music and be 100% legal. we don't want these shows to get shut down. we expect at least 200 kids to come to each show. we would like the venues to be cool. like DIY spaces preferably. legion halls are okay but not favored. we will only play ALL AGES shows of course. we will NOT play any clear channel shit holes. we will not play any clubs with cops as security. (we would prefer no security at all.) our STAFF can act as security if needed to satisfy venue owners. in short, a cool place that holds at least 200 people.

ABOUT PARKING
it would be great of you figured out where we can park our 50'-60' long school bus near the venue. (if we can't park near the venue, we can unload and park the bus somewhere and ride a bike back, but it would be nice if you helped us find a safe place to park, even if it is far away.)

ABOUT THE DOOR PRICE (and $$$ in general)
we would like each show to cost $10 for the whole day. we think this price is fair for 12 bands and day-time fun. we would like at least 50% of the door. ideally we would like 100% of the door after overhead (renting the hall, the PA, food, fliers, etc). if that's not possible we will settle for 50% but we will not take less. (we don't want to play venues that take more than that.) we do not really want to pay the local bands. all of us are used to the local bands playing to support the touring bands and help them out (and i mean when we are the local bands, too). these are the kind of bands we are looking for. SEE BELOW FOR WHERE THE MONEY WILL GO.

WRIST BANDS
we will provide wrist bands at the door. we will more than likely have a staff member at the door the whole time but will need help from you and your staff.

WHERE THE MONEY WILL GO.
most of the money we make will go into the gas tank and our bellies. what is left will be put towards bus cost and then divided equally between all 34 people on the bus. i want everyone on the tour to make a small amount of money for giving up a month of their time and living on a cramped, smelly bus. i doubt there will be that much left. if by chance there is money left over it will all go to benefit THE CENTER FOR CHANGE. a community center project in bloomington, indiana.

FOOD
we will have a cook on the bus (oliver) and maybe cooking gear but could sure use help. if you want to make food for 40 people, let us know. you don't have to. a kitchen would be nice. venues with kitchens would be great. if you could make food that would be awesome and our cook would help (that's his job). many of the people on the tour are vegan, so that should be taken into consideration if you are taking on the very generous and unexpected task of cooking for us.

THE STAFF
we are bringing a 5 person staff to do stage work, cook, work the plan-it-x merch table and work at the door. you will only need about 2-3 people at the most. we will do all the work. we love work.

POSTERS
we are printing posters and will mail them to you. it would be cool if you wanted to make fliers or handbills. and of course we would expect you to hang all the posters we send. these will be nice posters (hopefully) printed by a friend in town. also, there will eventually be a poster available for download on this website for you to copy and use.

MERCH TABLES
we don't want the fest to be a punk rock mall. we would rather there not be a lot of distros in the night time venue. what we did last year at the 10 year party was to allow people to sell stuff in the day time at the park but not at night in the rock venue. in short, we don't want distros at the show. we want the shows to be about music and fun and not shopping. we will be setting up a table to the fest bands and of course the local bands should sell their stuff too. our table will be one table for all 10 bands on the tour and one of our staff will work the table all night. of course there will be the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE BOOK DISTRO TABLE, TOO.

above all, thank you if you have taken on the responsibility of helping set up or promote any of the shows on the fest. we really appreciate all your help! we want our expectations to be as clear as possible to you, so please don't hesitate to get in touch: pixfest2005@yahoo.com.