Tom McGuiness and Fran Nevrlka
Lowlight: The PPL balloons being knicked within minutes of being put up - give them back who ever it was!
Fill in: PPL is one of the nicest companies to work for in the music business and a lot of it is down to its Chair. Fran Nevrkla is the real deal - passionate, intelligent, eloquent and understated. His influence permeates the company and doing his Christmas Drinks bash at The Avenue is always an oversubscribed affair. It is a long job as nobody ever wants to leave and the crew near enough have to bully the crowd into submission.
Tech Spec: The last few years of this event have been a frantic scramble to be in time for the Music Week deadline, much of which involved me wandering round the party balancing a laptop trying to find an internet signal, getting a small sign of life and taking half an hour to send one highly compressed file whilst still trying to take photos of the party. This year, the deadlines lave been moved - Hurrah - so could relax and enjoy just photographing the party. It's a struggle as it is standing room only and a case of burrowing through the bodies then pumping out one's elbows to get enough room to take a group shot on a very wide angel lens - not flattering but the alternative is to use a cattle prod and Nikon have not brought one out yet - I suppose I could use my monopod...
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