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Having missed last year’s IMATS (International Makeup Artist Trade Show — Europe) I’m really looking forward to this year’s show (if not the walk up the hill to Ally Pally). But hey, having bought my ticket in November and with IMATs only three weeks away, isn’t it about time that they got round to publishing the schedule for the Keynote Speakers etc. I know these guys have busy (and changeable) schedules and other commitments — but so have I! 

Having got a two-day ticket, I should be able to juggle so that I can see most of what I want (hopefully), even though I’ll only be able to go one afternoon and one morning. But anyone buying a one-day ticket, as I had to last time I went, is really being expected to buy a pig-in-a-poke with no idea which Keynote Speakers they’ll get — missing Rick Baker because they can’t even tell you on which day he’s speaking, never mind what time, would be a big deal.

IMATs is great, shouldn’t be missed, but I have a nagging memory of being able to, enviously, look up the schedule of the US show some weeks beforehand.

update 13/01/2008: The schedule is now finalised — about time too — but curiously they have not updated the Schedule pages; so if you want to find out who’s on and when, you have to look up the Latest News page. Still at least I know that Rick Baker is on at a time when I can be there. 

update 23/01/2008: I’ll be there Saturday and am on Sunday — you’ll be able to spot me by the bright red Llanelli Scarlets T-shirt with ‘YMA O HYD’ on the front.