User:Nick NAME from Plymouth/sandbox

Nick, Owner of Motion Promotions in 1996 concieved, created, organised and produced the In-House Power Cathedral live music event held on the 30th November 1996 at the then Gateway International Airport, now Polokwane International Airport or GAAL, Polokwane, South Africa.

This event was to be the forerunner of Nicks International Plan- festivals and events in 7 cities for 7 days around the world.

Coming off the back of co-owning and co-creating the first pro ANC newspaper, City Snoop, for the Northern Province, not long after Nelson Mandela was released from prison and won the presidency for the ANC, Nick realised that creating his first music festival was within his capabilities, despite his complete lack of experience in such matters and total disbelief from all quarters.

Hanger T48 at the Gateway International Airport was the location that the event took place in, an historical event as it was the first time international, national and local DJ's could entertain festival goers throughout the night, in an airport hanger at an international airport in South Africa. Whats more is that the event took place on the same evening as the Mother Rave in Johannesburg, with most people refusing to believe the event would even take place. But indeed it did, against all odds.

Invited to participate as the headliner was the nationally known Derek The Bandit Richardson, the famous late night Radio 5 DJ. Derek was promoting the event live over the air regularly in the preceding months and weeks, but unfortunately at the last minute Nick cancelled Dereks trip up from Johannesburg to Gateway International Airport due to unforseen circumstances, a needle was broken on the set of decks and no other needle was available, but the event went on with London based DJ's and local DJ's doing an admiral job to keep the beats a-thumping and the crowd dancing on their feet.

Laser Corporation showcased the latest technological laser show of the decade and also supplied the 10 000 Watts of sound system, stunning the crowd with state of the art visuals and sound for the evening.

During the earlier hours Super Sound had their amped up car there pumping out 5 KW of music too, stunning the audience with its looks and tremendously boosted sound.

The decor of Hanger T48 was absolutely amazing, with local artists and a professional set-piece company making an extreme effort to impress, and impress they did. A huge spider and spider web hung from the hangers roof down to near the crowd and various pieces of psychadelic art was placed strategically all around the hanger, the VIP room was adorned like an Arabian Shieks tent.

South African Breweries approached Nick to negotiate promoting their new brand of alcohol Redds, and were allowed to put up some banners to that effect, they kindly donated an entire pallet of Redds that was distributed freely after the late night alcohol licence expired.

There was only one negative occurrance during the enire event,early in the morning ours of Sunday, 31st November a young lady approached Nick, the organiser, to inform him she and her friend had been sexually assaulted in the VIP  room. When Nick, with security and other team member went to investigate, the lady pointed out the alleged perpetrators , and they were the team from SANAB, the South African Narcotics Beareu. The Captain of SANAB who was present were reported to the South African Police on Monday morning by Nick. The young lady was the daughter of a government official.

Nick had recieved threatening phone calls from the 'underworld' prior to the event taking place, whereupon Nick went directly to Advocate Seth N'Thai, the then Minister of Safety and Security for the Northern Province, explaining the situation. With the state on his side, as Nick had great relations with the African National Congress who were the post apartheid political power at that time, an entire company of heavily armed riot police and top brass were in attendance in the early hours to dissuade any 'mafia' doings. Indeed, the only problems were caused by the South African Police SANAB members in the early hours of the following morning.

Many of the involved companies that were approached by Nick were more than happy to be involved in one way or the other, from international companies like Coca Cola, Skratch Music, XPS, Nandos- who were only South African nationals at that time and Holiday Inn, to local companies like The Ranch, Nelson Mandelas favourite hotel in the then Northern Province. All played their part in the making of this one of a kind event. Indeed the agents of internationl super stars like Michael Jackson, UB40, U2 and so on were all aware of Nick and his plans for In-House Power Cathedral and the planned 7 day events on the horizon- with the aim to help alleviate poverty and help orphans in Southern Africa.

To this end Nick had approached Child Welfare, South Africa, who were kind enough to allow Nick to use their Fund Raising Number for all intents and purposes to donate funds to aid in their vision and quest to help children.