Scooby Doo: Day Three

The first thing I did on Wednesday was head to the LRC to update the blog (see Scooby Doo: Day Two), and no matter how many times I go there people still look confused to see me.

I soon found out that I didn't have my Creative Writing lecture that day (lucky for the lecturer) and instead I met with my group and we went over our pieces.

Afterwards I headed to Galleria, a shopping mall in Hatfield...

While I was there I experienced a new reaction. For the first time since I put this costume on, I was hated - by a toddler. I quote "I hate Scooby Doo", it hurt, and then it was accompanied by a secondary school kid in McDonalds shaking his head at me disapprovingly - ouch!

After shopping we went to the Fame office as we heard that next door there was a focus group for students that involved free pizza and wine (wow I'm getting dictated by my stomach like Scooby!).

After a lengthy discussion about student scholarships it was time to get ready for the night ahead: Bonk! feat. Ms Dynamite @ The Forum Hertfordshire.

It was the kickboxing social and Davut Unsal's birthday celebrations so we decided to pre-drink at the Elehouse, a bar next to the Forum.

Once inside, I was told that Ms Dynamite had agreed to conduct an interview for Crush Radio. I had tweeted her beforehand warning her that I'd be dressed as Scooby Doo, but wasn't sure she would have seen it. Yet, the first thing she said when she saw me was "didn't you tweet me!?". I realised that you're a lot more memorable when you're dressed ridiculously and after a brilliant interview conducted by Lynette Moore I headed to the crowd to watch Ms Dynamite perform!

During her performance she stopped to take pictures of the crowd, said she'd put them on Twitter and asked "who knows about Twitter?"... looking around the crowd she shouted for all to hear "I know Scooby does!" - puppy love!

Can you spot me?

Clubbing in a full Scooby-suit is not the best thing for your health but after meeting the garage legend herself and getting the oppotunity to teach people the "Scooby Skank", it was definitely worth it!

How Aggro Santos, Kiss Radio and my desire to network lead to a Twitter account...

As I have already told you I organise the interviews at The Forum. This means any guests that come to the club, I can usually meet (if they are accomodating!).

I only got this role properly at the begining of 2011 and one of the first people I met was Aggro Santos!

He was a really nice guy to be honest. He said yes to two interviews when previous guests have said no to any! On top of that he didn't rush them and was really talkative.

But how does this tie-in with Twitter?

Well, I used to always disregard Twitter, I thought it was only worth getting if you were a celebrity and used to always say "I'll make an account when I'm famous". I recently changed my mind.

After the interviews with Chloe and Omnia (from Let's Talk on Crush Underground) and Whitney an alumini of UH, he said to us "tweet me and I'll tweet back". This seemed irrelevant to me at first, but a couple of weeks down the line after meeting a few other guests I figured something out...

Twitter is the only way to keep in contact with those that are famous.

However this wasn't the sole reason I activated another social networking account (celebrities are on Facebook too)...

The Kiss Chosen One competition: for those who want to become a Kiss radio presenter, and the main reason I got Twitter. Naturally I entered the competition and that was how I became so interested in it, but sadly I didn't give the auditions my all (I didn't leave and think "Smashed It!" like Fidel Shelly - Final 10 Contestant). However the interest did feed my next journalism assignment, and I decided to interview the Final 10.

Strangely, a good friendship was fostered from this with Miss Maisy James, and soon the Final 5 were announced (this is where my Twitter comes in). She needed support on Twitter and so I had a good reason to activate an account. Although we were both pretty new and rubbish at using the site ("Tweetards") I soon got used to it and now I'm addicted!

It has paid off, as I have received tweets from people like Bashy and individual tweets from each member of The Scarletz (more about this in my next posts).

FOLLOW ME:
@CalumDiLieto
http://twitter.com/#!/CalumDiLieto

Shout out to Emily Harwood for taking my Twit-ginity (minus the random stranger!)