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Easley working hard to keep area entertained
Eric Easley, of e2ntertainment, has planned eight events in five days to start the Marshall semester off right.
Purchase this photoHUNTINGTON -- On the seventh day, Eric Easley didn't even rest.
He spent the day texting.
Since 1999, Easley has booked more than 700 parties, hip-hop shows, dances and just about every kind of bash in the Tri-State.
With Marshall back in session, Easley, of e2ntertainment, is in the midst of eight events in five days.
A Bluefield native who has kept Huntington hopping since he first came to Marshall as a student, Easley has regular parties rolling every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday all semester, and is kicking off the party season with a bang.
"At this time, it's not just a challenge to compete with others, but it's a challenge to try and top myself from the previous nine years and 700 events," Easley said. "I have a lot of competition with just trying to let myself feel happy with my own accomplishments."
This semester, Easley is upping the game at 10 a.m. every Tuesday at The Red Iguana, rear 809 4th Ave., where he's got DJ Press, from 98.7-The Beat in Charleston starting the I Am The Club parties with urban karaoke with hip hop, reggae and R&B songs.
"It's really the only place that I know that does urban karaoke," Easley said. "Karaoke around here is primarily done in country and rock bars because that is the music available. Thanks to the new digital technology, Press can take the regular Top 40 hip hop and pop of any market and have karaoke. He's the only person I have ever seen do it."
Tuesday nights, the Red Iguana will also house Easley's Clubbing 304 parties, which begin at midnight. These are strictly hip hop and dance music all accompanied by Press' five 4-foot-by-6-foot video screens rolling videos from the 1960s to the present.
Easley said they'll also start doing a Web broadcast from the club.
"It will be live so you can be home fixing your hair and check out to see if it is packed or not looking at the video feed," he said.
Easley, who's always been one of the tops at spraying cool show bills with original graphics around campus, said his parties are going even more high-tech. He's having several parties throughout the semester that will be at a secret location. He will text the information to people who contact him online at www.e2online.biz or at www.myspace.com/e2online.
In fact, if you text Easley at kingofclubs TO 66937, you can get in free to all of Easley's parties and shows for the year.
In lieu of fliers, Easley is going to be doling out mix-tapes that highlight some of his hottest DJs including DJ JLS and DJ Infamous 1.
"It will be 20-plus tracks of the hottest music and sprinkled throughout will be shout-outs and announcements instead of peppering fliers everywhere," Easley said. "This will have the same kind of quality graphics and everybody's favorite music."
Easley has two parties rolling tonight.
His regular Thursday gig called Business Before Pleasure, a weekly afterwork office party that kicks off at 7 p.m. at Holderby's Landing, 1360 Harris Park Drive at Harris Riverfront Park. Easley is also hosting the Let's Be Friends: MySpace, Facebook, Mozes Party, whose location will be announced by text messages and through his Web site at www.myspace.com/e2online.
If that isn't enough clubbing, Easley, who has been conducting a Summertime Sundays series at Holderby's, also has planned a Good Good Party for Friday (the name playing off the new single from Ashanti), as well as a Green is Sexy MU football game after-party and a big Sunday blowout at Holderby's Landing called the Summer Snow All White Island Affair, featuring five different DJs who will begin spinning records at 3 p.m., and roll until 9 p.m., if not later.
"We're cooking out and having the full menu and drink menu," Easley said. "We may extend the hours to accommodate the crowd."
Easley, whose other upcoming events include a Sept. 5 house party, a Sept. 11 patriot party with camo and free entry for military and his nine-year anniversary party on Sept. 19, said he's also looking for a street team to help him spread the word about the continuous parties.
"It's been crazy, eight events in five days, and I am still a one-man army -- that's why I'm hiring," Easley said.
Contact Eric Easley at eric@e2online.biz or online at www.e2online.biz or at www.myspace.com/e2online.
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