No Dope + Hawkwind??????

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

For those who never heard the story, I was contacted by a local indepenedent
supermarket in late '99 following an article on my Dead Earnest label in
Classic Rock magazine, and the result was that they played the music of
Spacehead, Krel, Mooch and Doug Snyder over the supermarket PA system for a
week, and we had Krel actually playing a near three hour set inside the
supermarket.
As a result of this we got invited to do a similar one-off in England, at
the enormous Sainsburys in Stafford, where we had videos set up around the
store showing videos of Mooch, Doug Snyder and Nash The Slash, while Krel
played for over three hours just oustide the place, and we raised a load of
money for the Siansburys Charity Of The Month and got some neat advance
local publicity.
Now we're waiting for someone somewhere else to invite us but it can't be
England or Scotland - we only do one-off's.
The supermarket tour will continue.....Macey's New York perhaps, Sainsburys,
Rhyl perhaps, FNAC, Paris maybe...depends who's willing to fund it all.
Andy Garibaldi.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: No Dope + Hawkwind??????


> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Richard Stockwell wrote:
>
> >         For one day I would love to have the job of selecting the music
that gets
> > piped over the  system in supermarkets and shopping malls. Wonder how
> > shoppers would react to say Tim Blake or Pete Namlook being played. You
> > would think the people in charge of selecting the music for shoppers to
hear
> > would have realised by now if you play people something meaningful they
will
> > shop longer.
>
>         Yeah, but they'll stay longer yet if what's on is familiar and
> unchallenging, sadly. And since most people aren't into Tim Blake, but
> chart pap, that's what'll make the muzak. It's the mass demographic end of
> the law that says the best way to get a crowd of goths dancing is to play
> `Temple of Love' by the Sisters of Mercy - because they'll all know
> it. For metallers it'll be `Ace of Spades', and for mall shoppers,
> apparently, it's Robbie Williams's `Rock DJ'. Ugh.
>
>         Once had to try and explain to someone what the difference between
> lift muzak and `Warmth Within' by the Dead Flowers was, and
> couldn't. Still regard that as a failure on my part. Yours,
>                                                             Jon
>
> n/p Disarray - `Possession (9/10ths of the law)'
>
> --
>      Jon Jarrett (01223 514989)       jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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>         "There's nothin' more dangerous than a wounded mosquito."