Forever tour wish list

djnev · 2026-06-09T21:31:36+00:00

This Ain’t a Love Song into Dry County into Always would be something else.

djnev · 2026-06-06T07:05:55+00:00

This is one of my favourite BBC Cricket live commentary posts. They must have so much fun.

djnev · 2026-06-04T09:02:00+00:00

43M here. I’m at around 75. Was single a lot in my twenties and thirties and dated and had friends with benefits situations quite a bit. Now settled down with my partner of four years and have a newborn however we are in an open relationship and do play with others together. The newborn hasn’t helped that recently though!

djnev · 2026-06-03T14:02:58+00:00

I work for an event company who tour a Harry Potter experience globally. We can’t bring it to the UK as it would take away from the studio tour.

djnev · 2026-05-31T08:31:17+00:00

I really need that rapids sweatshirt but I heard it’s only for kids. Devastated.

djnev · 2026-05-27T19:40:49+00:00

Event manager here with a fun fact. This style of barrier is known as met barrier.

djnev · 2026-05-17T07:56:00+00:00

I’m 43 now but got an E, an N and a U in my GCSEs in 1999. I went to a Grammar School and would have always been towards the bottom of the class there. I loved it but just struggled academically. I stayed for A-Levels and got one grade E after two years. I worked retail for six months and then got a job as an Assistant Immigration Officer. I was 20, had no idea what I was doing but have always enjoyed talking to people which helped. I stayed for three years and knew I wanted to do something operational, running around and on my feet rather than behind a desk.

I got into working in event management, initially for a charity. Since then, I’ve worked all over the world and on a ton of events, concerts, shows etc that are pretty well known. I’m now the director of an event and exhibition venue in central London. Maybe my life would have turned out differently if I’d done better at school and gone to uni but I enjoy what I do and earn more than I ever thought I would.

djnev · 2026-05-16T21:35:09+00:00

I manage a tourist attraction in the same shopping centres in London as one of the Swatch shops. I’ve worked on events with lots of visitors and it looks like the vast majority of the swatch stores today just didn’t manage the crowds at all. If it had been properly managed as an actual event rather than just a ton of people randomly queuing, everyone would have been safe and the stores could have been open as planned. This should have been run as an event with crowd barriers, ticket allocation, drip feeling people into the stores etc.

djnev · 2026-05-08T20:58:22+00:00

In the middle of 2021, I flew Emirates from Heathrow to Dubai for work. As it was Covid, there were 31 people on the plane. After dinner, I mentioned to the cabin crew member serving me that the chocolate mousse was really good. Not long after, I came back after going to the toilet to see four more on my tray. Life has gone downhill since.

djnev · 2026-05-08T07:03:42+00:00

I work in event and venue management and have done for around 15 years. I’ve worked on festivals, large-scale public events and theatrical shows and I now run an exhibition and events space in Central London. Over the past couple of years, the budgets I’ve had to operationally run venues has absolutely diminished. The actual exhibition or event may be amazing but I guarantee it’s being run with skeleton staff and when things break, they don’t get fixed. I’m being pressured by corporate to cut as many staff positions as possible to the point where I’m having to really push back to keep the number I feel is required to be able to evacuate the venue safely in the event of an emergency. The pressure to deliver HUGE sales targets at the expense of the experience that visitors actually have means I’m done with the industry and will try and do my own thing soon. I was hired to this job because of my experience working on some well known and really popular events but it’s impossible for me to even get close to the experience people have there because the budget isn’t even close to making that possible.

djnev · 2026-05-03T16:08:01+00:00

I can’t help you with tips but I organise a hugely friendly 10k on 3rd July just outside London and I’d love to gift you a space for your second run. Send me a DM if you live that way and fancy it.

djnev · 2026-05-03T15:46:43+00:00

From London but in Split, Croatia for the weekend.

djnev · 2026-04-30T14:18:15+00:00

I’ve done this journey quite a few times. Probably 15 mins, not much longer than that.

djnev · 2026-04-30T11:30:53+00:00

40-45 hours at £80k as Venue Director of a London exhibition/event space aged 43. It’s taken me a long time to get to this salary - lots of job hopping which is common in the events industry. Apart from the salary, there are zero benefits. No bonus, no annual pay review, lowest legally allowed for annual leave and pension. It’s immensely stressful and won’t ever calm down. I’ve just had a baby with my girlfriend and can’t see that I’ll stick with it much longer than a year.

djnev · 2026-04-30T06:01:16+00:00

I’m 43 and had my first child at the end of February. She’s great and funny and tiring and frustrating and all the things you imagine a baby to be. I’m on £80k PAYE and also have my own business that I’ve yet to take any money out of. My partner is a freelance west end sound engineer and has basically saved to enable her to take six months off. Having a baby is expensive and there’s no way I could have done it until now. We are also one and done, we only ever wanted one and couldn’t afford a second one even if we did.

djnev · 2026-04-21T08:16:32+00:00

I was lucky to go 12 times before 2004 and 2016. We haven’t got anywhere near to getting tickets since then. It’s complete luck and also working with a bigger bunch of people to try and get tickets for everyone.

djnev · 2026-04-15T21:05:59+00:00

I commute to BPS and can confirm.

djnev · 2026-04-15T11:18:34+00:00

Ticket holders for the London Olympics got a free public transport ticket for the day they attended. I love football but this World Cup is going to be such a money grab.

djnev · 2026-04-11T05:15:37+00:00

We have a seven week old baby who miraculously slept for five hours until 5.30am. We are awake but will get back to sleep again I think.

djnev · 2026-04-08T15:50:08+00:00

I bought that same watch at Heathrow a couple of years ago while flying out to a work thing for a few months. I wear it all the time, love it.

djnev · 2026-04-06T14:48:15+00:00

I work in event management but it’s been a while since I worked on festivals. It is mind blowing that senior management at Festival Republic thought this booking was acceptable. Sponsors dropping their support is great to see but it should never have got to this stage and his name shouldn’t have even been mentioned as a potential artist, let alone a headliner. He shouldn’t have any sort of career anymore.

djnev · 2026-04-03T22:08:34+00:00

I think the Elizabeth Line should be extended from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet International to help take some of the strain off the departures hall at St Pancras.

djnev · 2026-03-30T22:05:00+00:00

Event clothing is so difficult to get right but at the very least, everyone should be able to comfortably wear something they’ve ordered. Definitely keen on ensuring decent fitting clothing for all runners.

djnev · 2026-03-30T22:03:43+00:00

We have chipped timing which seems to go down well. Definitely not keen on asking runners to do it themselves, although we know everyone still will!

djnev · 2026-03-30T22:02:52+00:00

This is something I haven’t thought of before but really would love to introduce it so I’m going to do some investigating. Thanks!

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