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Scouse Ma is coming off social for the night to host a massive Mother’s Day party
3 years ago
Scouse Ma is taking a break from social media for the night to throw whatās shaping up to be Liverpoolās biggest, Scousest Motherās Day party.
Sheās taking over Invisible Wind Factory on Sunday March 27 alongside Ultrabeat and a line-up of DJs, games, prizes and lots of surprises.
Itās the first time Scouse Ma, aka Elle, has ever done an in-person event before but she says sheās keen to meet some of the thousands of followers whoāve helped make her accounts such a success.
āObviously Iām known as an anonymous account, not usually showing my face, but for this Iām actually going to have a little go at hosting which is absolutely nerve-racking,ā she admits.
āFor a lot of people there this will be the first time theyāll have seen me so Iām terrified but at the same time Iām really looking forward to meeting people. Iāve got quite a lot of long-time followers who are really curious about who I am, so itāll be lovely to just be able to have a proper chat to everyone.ā
Elleās been working on Scouse Maās Big Night Out since last summer, although itās an idea sheās had for a couple of years.
āI already wanted to do something different and I thought it would be nice to do it in Liverpool with local businesses involved,ā she explains. āI had the idea of doing an event or something outside of Instagram a year or two ago but I didnāt know how to go about it, then Luke Crellin, whoās been in music production and events for years, contacted me.
āIād never met Luke before but he DMed me and the message was a bit cheeky so I responded, and he basically had in his head what Iād had in mine but heās got the experience to do it.ā
Since then Elle, Luke and Chris from Ultrabeat have all been coming up with ideas for the night after deciding on Invisible Wind Factory as the perfect venue for what they wanted to do.
Early release tickets sold out straight away and the second release is already half gone which she says sheās genuinely surprised ā and relieved ā about.
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āAt first I was panicking a bit, like when youāre a kid and you have a party thinking, what if no-one comes? But Iāve just been absolutely made up with the response. Weāve got people coming from all over the country, from Ireland, Scotland, London the Lake District, itās not just Scousers, and itās all age brackets from 18 to over 60s.ā
Having an extra platform for Scouse Ma couldnāt have come at a better time because sheās just had her main Instagram account disabled along with its Ā£1.7million followers.
āThatās really just reminded me how fragile social media is,ā she says. āIām on my back-up account at the moment, which has 642,000 followers, but the whole thing has been bizarre.
āSince last year Instagram has been really strict, and theyāve brought a new algorithm in which recognises certain words but it doesnāt get sarcasm or satire.
āI had one meme removed for co-ordinating violence because it had the name āTed Bundyā in it and another one got removed for instigating violence because it was a joke about stealing traffic cones. The final straw was I posted a video of a little boy calling Boris Johnson a d***head, Iāve posted it loads of times before but on that day they must have thought, right, weāve had enough of her, sheās going!
āI did speak to someone at Meta who told me it was because I didnāt have my account under the category of satire/parody but I changed all my categories and it still got removed.
āIt wonāt let me appeal, Iāve got another week or so and then I think after that itās permanently gone.ā
While she waits in the hope of a reprieve, sheās busy coming up with a running order for the Big Night Out.
āWeāre just going through that now but a lot of it is going to be surprises.Ā
āThe main artists confirmed are Ultrabeat, DJs Vicki Scott, Kaci Lea Lynch and Davy T Soul Train, but thereās loads of other stuff weāve booked which people will find out about when theyāre there, we want everyone to be wondering whatās going to happen next.Ā
āI donāt want anyone to be bored, I just want everyone to have a boss time with things popping up during the night.ā
As for a script, Elle says sheās happy to mostly wing it.Ā
āLuke is insisting we need to get something written down and have a couple of rehearsals before we do it, but Iām pretty good at thinking on my feet, Tweets are just like thinking on your feet half the time, so Iām hoping to rely on that.
āAnd itās on the Sunday, starting at 8pm and finishing at 2am, so Iām hoping by the time people get there theyāll all be half-cut and they wonāt pay much attention to me, thatāll be fantastic!ā
To tickets for this Scouse Ma eventĀ here.
Article by Dawn Collinson