{"id":4865,"date":"2016-03-05T13:42:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T11:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2016-03-05T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T15:00:30","slug":"nasty-c-entertainment-logistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/nasty-c-entertainment-logistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasty C Entertainment Logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning to a good old Twitter storm, seems like a couple of young South African rappers <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nasty_CSA\" target=\"_blank\">Nasty C<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emteesa\" target=\"_blank\">Emtee<\/a> were booked to perform at a Skyy Infusion gig at Stanbic Bank Piazza in Gaborone, Botswana.\u00a0 Neither of them showed up, and Nasty C claimed that something went wrong with his flight arrangements.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4866\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-promo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4866\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4866\" title=\"Skyy Infusion Nasty C Emtee Promo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-promo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Skyy Infusion Nasty C Emtee Promo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-promo-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-promo-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-promo-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-promo-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-promo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skyy Infusion Emtee Promo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more-->What is interesting is that the event flier does not mention Nasty C, who tweeted that he was going to be at the event (tweet since deleted), and Emtee got mentioned but never tweeted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4868\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-skyy-botswana-province.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4868\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-skyy-botswana-province-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Nasty C Deleted Tweet\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-skyy-botswana-province-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-skyy-botswana-province-150x92.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-skyy-botswana-province-400x246.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-skyy-botswana-province.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nasty C Deleted Tweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now, ignoring the fact that Botswana is not and never has been a province of South Africa (remember that business with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bechuanaland_Protectorate\" target=\"_blank\">three chiefs<\/a>?), attending gigs in East London and Gaborone is an interesting logistical challenge.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m28!1m12!1m3!1d7164050.762414089!2d22.428322121408627!3d-28.74727731050127!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!4m13!3e6!4m5!1s0x1e66e6fc26098303%3A0x62b7d874cc1a1b9f!2sEast+London%2C+South+Africa!3m2!1d-33.0291582!2d27.8545867!4m5!1s0x1ebb5b3c2ceea9bf%3A0x49a1769397ae11a1!2sGaborone%2C+Botswana!3m2!1d-24.6282079!2d25.923147099999998!5e0!3m2!1sen!2s!4v1457172812022\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, at least 12 hours by car (through South Africa, on a Friday afternoon\/evening&#8230; that&#8217;s going to end well), or 7.5 hours by scheduled airline.\u00a0 Since he tweeted from East London at 1:33pm he&#8217;d obviously missed his outbound flight and wasn&#8217;t driving.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4870\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-flight-plan.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4870 size-medium\" title=\"Nasty C Flight Plan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-flight-plan-300x263.png\" alt=\"Nasty C Flight Plan\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-flight-plan-300x263.png 300w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-flight-plan-150x131.png 150w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-flight-plan-400x350.png 400w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/nastyc-flight-plan.png 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nasty C Flight Plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Presumably then he had a charter aircraft on standby (images below grabbed from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingair.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">King Air Charter<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lanseria_International_Airport\" target=\"_blank\">Lanseria-based<\/a> charter company).<\/p>\n<p>Helicopter? Don&#8217;t think so: a fast executive chopper (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_Helicopter\" target=\"_blank\">Bell Helicopter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_222\" target=\"_blank\">230<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_430\" target=\"_blank\">430<\/a>) would take 4.5hrs plus at least 2 fuel stops (there are legal minimums about remaining fuel).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4872\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bell-230-430-helicopter-king-air-charter.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4872\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bell-230-430-helicopter-king-air-charter-300x138.png\" alt=\"Bell 230 &amp; 430 range and speed\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bell-230-430-helicopter-king-air-charter-300x138.png 300w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bell-230-430-helicopter-king-air-charter-768x353.png 768w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bell-230-430-helicopter-king-air-charter-1024x470.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bell-230-430-helicopter-king-air-charter-150x69.png 150w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bell-230-430-helicopter-king-air-charter-400x184.png 400w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bell-230-430-helicopter-king-air-charter.png 1187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bell 230 &amp; 430 range and speed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first aircraft I could find with legs for the trip is a King Air 200, needing just over 2.5hrs from take-off to landing.\u00a0 Cost of that would be around $4,500 each way, or something like BWP 100,000 all-in.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4871\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/king-air-200-king-air-charter.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4871\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4871\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/king-air-200-king-air-charter-300x195.png\" alt=\"King Air 200 range and speed\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/king-air-200-king-air-charter-300x195.png 300w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/king-air-200-king-air-charter-768x499.png 768w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/king-air-200-king-air-charter-1024x665.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/king-air-200-king-air-charter-150x97.png 150w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/king-air-200-king-air-charter-400x260.png 400w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/king-air-200-king-air-charter.png 1178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Air 200 range and speed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, now it&#8217;s time to play with the big boys.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Far East Movement ft. The Cataracs, DEV - Like A G6 (Official Video)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w4s6H4ku6ZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to my world <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/GwSJ4OC4Yj\">pic.twitter.com\/GwSJ4OC4Yj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FloydMayweather\/status\/552163129564479488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But why stop with a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gulfstream_G650\" target=\"_blank\">G6<\/a>?\u00a0 A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bombardier_Global_Express\" target=\"_blank\">Global Express<\/a> is 100km\/hr faster (1.5hrs each way) and you could carry on to Paris after the gig.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4873\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/global-express-king-air-charter.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4873\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4873\" title=\"Global Express range and speed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/global-express-king-air-charter-300x187.png\" alt=\"Global Express range and speed\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/global-express-king-air-charter-300x187.png 300w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/global-express-king-air-charter-768x478.png 768w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/global-express-king-air-charter-1024x638.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/global-express-king-air-charter-150x93.png 150w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/global-express-king-air-charter-400x249.png 400w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/global-express-king-air-charter.png 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Global Express range and speed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;and that would cost over BWP 260,000 (East London return, not Paris), which is a whole boatload of VVIP tickets.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4867\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-nastyc-flight-costs.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4867\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4867 size-full\" title=\"Typical Air Charter Costs (USA)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-nastyc-flight-costs.png\" alt=\"Typical Air Charter Costs (USA)\" width=\"593\" height=\"245\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-nastyc-flight-costs.png 593w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-nastyc-flight-costs-300x124.png 300w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-nastyc-flight-costs-150x62.png 150w, http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/emtee-nastyc-flight-costs-400x165.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 85vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical Air Charter Costs (USA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, before committing to back-to-back gigs in distant locations do some fucking homework, and don&#8217;t fob off your fans with &#8220;something went wrong with my flight arrangements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nasty_CSA\/status\/706033283130396672<\/p>\n<p>Especially after you seem to have spent the night reassuring your fans that everything was good.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuriBW\/status\/705998448991051776<\/p>\n<p>As for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blacktie_bw\" target=\"_blank\">organisers\/promoters of the event<\/a>, what were you thinking, didn&#8217;t you do a reality check on the costs and logistics?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PUBLIC ANNOUNCENT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w5QaD0V20w\">pic.twitter.com\/w5QaD0V20w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BLACK TIE PROJECTS (@blacktie_bw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blacktie_bw\/status\/706008790295027712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope the artists and promoter can make amends, these shenanigans happen an awful lot at events in Botswana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning to a good old Twitter storm, seems like a couple of young South African rappers Nasty C and Emtee were booked to perform at a Skyy Infusion gig at Stanbic Bank Piazza in Gaborone, Botswana.\u00a0 Neither of them showed up, and Nasty C claimed that something went wrong with his flight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/nasty-c-entertainment-logistics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nasty C Entertainment Logistics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,101,8,122],"tags":[291,290,285,218,283,211,289,288,292,287,286,282,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4880,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}