The Fanfest

In the near future JWWC will be sitting with John Waite and his management, to get a firm date so that the fanfest becomes a reality. From there we will move on to the plans and outline of the FanFest.

From organizing events such as this in the music as well as other industries (call them "conventions"), we have the following preliminary details for all John Waite fans to think about. Please understand that these are based on first and foremost, John's schedule. John continues to discuss his commitment to the fanfest with JWWC, but due to the new tour that has been announced, scheduling may have to remain flexible, and may be subject to change. Again, keep in mind that we must work with John and around his schedule. These are JUST in the "pre-idea/organizational" stages. So take these as starting points or ideas that we have come up with or fans have suggested to us for inclusion of such an event.

LOCATION:
Due to the recently announced tour, John will be playing extensively in 1999. Should the opportunity arrise in John's schedule for the fanfest event it may be more applicable to place it in a city nearest his location based on the tour. Keep in mind, the fanfest must be easy for John to attend. It is planned and organized with the intention of John himself being there.

TIME:
The event would take place over several days. This is for several reasons. One being that plane fares tend to be cheaper with 2 or more days included in your ticket (ie. Leave on a Thursday, return Sunday night). Of course a lot of you know that with rental cars it works the same. The first day of the event for everyone, with the many different plane arrivals is used as an "arrival day". You will get to where the fanfest will be and get organized in your hotel room. A lunch or dinner will be scheduled for all to meet, or perhaps several to accommodate the different times people will arrive. Perhaps a buffet at the hotel.

AIRLINES & HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS:
The more people that attend, obviously the better rate we can get on airlines and hotel rooms, as well as shuttling people from airports to hotels and visa versa. Should all work out, we believe that in order to take care of the airline and a group rate one or two airlines will be the portals for the Fanfest. This will allow us to approach the airline of choice and get a "John Waite FanFest Rate" so to speak. These numbers start at approximately 100 people guaranteeing the airline to take advantage of this special rate.

The same applies for hotel rooms and venues. We will take care or the organization of people rooming together and so on and so forth.

FANFEST AGENDA:
As stated above, the FanFest agenda will be given to you before you leave from your home. This will include a structured guideline. You will be provided with all the touring info you need to get around the city in which the fanfest is held, as well as help in navigating through the city. Returning later that day to the hotel room (around 4PM or so) a dinner (which Mr. Waite would be invited to attend) would take place. Perhaps a somewhat formal dinner and dance, just to name ideas.

Next up, the performance. Of course the desire from the fans would be to have John perform. This depends on John's status with a band at the time and their availability or perhaps he himself unplugged. A hall or venue will be investigated to have John perform there and additional so-called "meet and greet," Q&A etc. afterwards.

The fans who attend the event will be given several choices to do many things that are available in the city where it takes place. There is plenty to do in any city, and perhaps in the free time people have, not all want to do the same thing. The event holds several option to do several things. Meet other John Waite fans, see the city, see John play, meet with John etc. I'm sure that we and you can come up with plenty of ideas as to what to do.

THE JOHN WAITE SURVIVAL KIT:
Our hope is that we will be able to provide you with some memories or your trip. Perhaps something from John to take back with you... this will include tickets to the events for that weekend as well as several other items that your going to need to survive.

A special mail list will be made for this event that you can subscribe to, when the time comes.