*edited for LOUSY spelling in some areas* :oD
Okay, I may be overstepping my bounds a bit here (LEO, give me a swift kick in the arse if that is the case), but I was thinking. Jas, put DOWN the fire extinguisher, the smoke was a false alarm!!! ;o)

Last time Roxette tried to ding the N. America market... RNAF was born. For those new to the game, or who don’t remember, RNAF is short for Roxette NorthAmeriFans. RNAF staged the RoxattaqUSA and needless to say, we bombed the market alright. In fact... I’m still trying to crawl out of that happy little crater. It SUCKED! The effort on behalf of the RNAF-ers was FANTASTIC. Don’t sell yourselves short, ladies and gentlemen.

Where it sucked was: EAR helped it fail. Yeah. There was little to no support from them in promoting WICF... at least, that’s what I noticed out here in my little corner of the country. There is a station manager of one of our Pop stations here that is a HUGE Roxette fan. However, he wasn’t interested in investing much because of the lack of support given by the label.

I don’t know all of the ins and outs of how this works, but I do know that we didn’t have a whole lot of help. In my line of work, I managed to get a few of my passengers to call the radio stations for me and it helped... but not enough.

I guess what I’m getting at is this:
Shall we resurrect RNAF and stage another Roxattaq of sorts? Call it something else though... people started getting confused between Roxette and Roxattaq. But then again, the collective IQ in Utah rivals that of a rock at times.

Another question is: Do we want to do this, and if so, will you give 100% of what you can? I realise that not everyone has time everyday to do this. Believe me, if there were 3 of me... I’d still not have a lot of time to get stuff done. But, if you do sign up for this, will you be willing to report to someone about how activities have gone, and give them a basic “field report”?

If you want to do this, I’d like to propose that RNAF be resurrected and then have things organised a HAIR bit better. Butt-sight is always 20/20. We learned from the first time around that things need to be a bit more centralised. For example, each state / province has a representative or 2 (or however many is needed. California and Texas would benifit from 3, seeing the large population / size of the state, where as Utah would need only 1 or 2).

Then each State Representative would report to a Regional Represntative. The US would be divided into several regions: West, Mid-West, Central, East, South, New England (just as an example). They in turn, would report to the BIG boss. LEO and Carlos were our go to men back east because they came up with this, and most of the stuff centred around NY / Boston and other eastern cities more than out west (with the exception of Washington State and Oregon I believe).

Now, I’m not saying LEO and Carlos HAVE to be in charge, each of them have thier own lives to attend to. To me, they make a logical choice because of their abilities in the past. I’m hoping that with the addition of the State Reps and the Region Reps, this would take a large portion of pressure and stress off of them (or whomever picks this one up), and frees up a lot of time for thier lives.

If it were me, I’d love that. Free time... of course, I don’t know what the hell that is... but it’s a start :o)

Ultimately, to sum up all of what I’ve just said:
Resurrect RNAF? If so, who leads? Does the State and Regional Reps sound like a good idea? And would all of us be willing to report to the Reps and help push the release of TBH here in the NA area in February?

Or am I in need of being sedated and locked in a padded cell again? Your call.