Awards ???

[one eyed jack]

What Oscar said. He's done a flimmin good job from what I've seen and others who arent even members have chipped in too. Lets make it a happy place to do business and bring back some old school camaraderie. I'm happy to pass the torch to the new schoolers and see new talent shine and Pure Totty...Dude...I'm not having a pop at you.

Its just whenever the awards come up it seems to be treated with excitement and revulsion when to me its a ruddy good night to meet up with fellow people in the game, share war stories, get drunk, have a laugh. Never have we had any bother with producers bitching or fighting on the night

Just seems to me that forums bring out the worst in people and the parties the best...Yove been threatening to attend for years but didnt you orgnaise your own soiree a few years ago that involved going toa restaurant in Milton Keynes?

The next meet we have is at Grand Union with the Xbiz crowd on May 14th, come along. No awards, just a meet and a drink. You'll be pleasantly surprised what a fun lot we are in the biz

[scotdan]

What, no best anal pounding award! !shocked! Next you will be telling us there is no cunnilingus Champion award. !laugh!

[puretotty]

Well in fairness my day out in Milton Keynes was cause a few people asked me to pass on some of my juice (in a non sexual way may I add) not sure why they thought I was an expert mind lol... far from it !

I did get them to bribe me with curry... that Fat Man Fuck will do anything for a curry...

May 14th you say, oh two days before my Birthday... that's doable... let me see what I can pull off

[andy at handiwork]

The last XBiz bash at the Grand Union was a really good night. Looking forward to the next one. Lets do a UKAP video of the get-together Terry. Thats the 14th may in the diary.

[Natalee]

You might win an award for being a fat cunt that needs a long deserved kicking.
http://www.saafe.info/main/index.php?topic=26151.0

[puretotty]

Oh dear... really... ? Yes the same accusation that's being investigated by the police following some idiot making the same claims on Twitter... don't worry I will be forwarding this to the officer investigating these FALSE accusations... from people like your self with no balls to say who you are :/

Look at our PureStorm profile and the girls we've worked with... Natalia Forrest, Katie K, Jess West, Kacie James, Roxy Mendez, Chloe Lovette, Samantha Bentley, the list goes on... why do they leave us good feedback and come back to shoot time and time again :/ ? As I said False accusations being investigated by the police...

So to the admin of BGAFD... tomorrow I will be contacting the officer investigating this and giving him the site details and the posted of the above Libel... Screen grabs already taken :/ oh and thanks to the link more evidence for the police to investigate...

[one eyed jack]

I heard things similar to this around the way and can tie this in wth a problem where people have been impersonating established producers to set up shoots where they had no intention of paying.

Whether its the same person or not hasnt been established

I heard a story from a model who did a shoot to find the bloke tried to evade paying by jumping out of the window and run down a fire escape stairs.

Some of the things I'm hearing about this business reinforces my opinion that there should be more unity amongst us because theres a lot of negativity from some models towards producers

These kind of stories do us in this busness no favours whatsoever and its simple enough to remedy wihout "smashing someones face in"

Identifiying the person is a good start

[puretotty]

Yeah the problem is OEJ any one can set up some fake accounts on places like Twitter and email accounts... and then throw around all kinds of accusations about anyone. Luckily nowadays due to new law changes the Police are obligated to investigate and trace the people responsible...

I have been doing this now for 14 years, we've worked with most of the established models and have great feed back from these girls... we've always gone out of our way to look after people as we value our reputation...

Don't get me wrong in 14 years we have had our falling outs with people, and sometimes you go from hero to zero in some people's minds when this happen... but I honestly believe we've done the best by everyone we have worked with, and this is why they say what they say about us and come back to work with us time and time again !

The things being said are so SICK ! I am not the kind of person who want's to fight people, or smash peoples faces in as you say... but the things that have been said about me have even made me want to smash some faces in But I will leave it in the hand of the police to deal with now... to my understanding they have already tracked the IP so it's only a matter of time now...

[one eyed jack]

...And swinging back on topic about the awards I would like to share one observation Ive noted last year where voting and/ or winning an award is concerned.

There are those in the ast who have refused to be part of or snubbed the awards wich contradicts the allegations of the votes being rigged

When they do that they should recognise that it has no impact on the organisers but is a big diss t all the voters that wanted to see them win

My opinion on this is , whatever your thoughts on these things, just accept the award graciously, smile for the photo hod your award up high because you won it fair and square and leave it at that

I just wanted to get that out there because I'll be quick to rip into anyone who undermines the hard work going on behind the scenes right now that is unpaid.

UKAP make a big deal about the event being honest and fair which is why I've stepped back in the past few years because I felt winning was viewed wth suspicion because of my history with the association...though some members feel it could be seen as snubbing it, which is certianly not the case if you consider actions speak louder than words

UKAP are all for supporting new talent, studio and services to the business and it is no more or less important than any other event in the business

I just wanted to get that out there.

[one eyed jack]

Speaking of The Shaftas....Have they missed a year or two?