HW - tape info

[mark cotton]

Hi,
  Wasn't 'Snorkwind' one of Alan Davey's tribute bands, pre-Bedouin?
>From: ANDREW GARIBALDI <andygee at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
>Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
>Subject: Re: HW - tape info
>Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:30:04 -0000
>
>Hi,
>Rooting around the collection today I found this cassette listed as
>Snortwind-Oxford New Age Fair 5-6-86 and line-up as Huw LL/Alan Davey/Danny
>Thompson and a guy called Grob on keyboards - anyone know who Grob
>is???....and what the heck is this Snortwind thing anyway - not something
>I've come across before now - your dept, perhaps, Bernard???
>Andy G.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jon Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
>To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
>Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 7:53 PM
>Subject: Re: OFF: Concert Attendance
>
>
> > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:
> >
> > > There is a virus about - it's called 'poor concert attendance'.
> > > Over here in the UK we have always had the idea that the USA events
>such
>as
> > > this would pull in more of an audience, but this now seems to be so
>rampant
> > > a situatiion everywhere.
> > > On the electronic music front, an annual event in Holland previously
>called
> > > Klem, now 'E-live' has been canceleled this year due to poor ticket
>sales -
> > > 4 years ago they were getting over 1000 people. The partner event,
>Alpha
> > > Centauri, only got 600+ people this year by getting Rick Wakeman to
> > > headline. In the UK, you couldn't put on the annual electronic music
> > > festivals we used to do without reckoning on around 125 people where
>it
>used
> > > to be 300-400+.
> > > On the space-rock front, Alan Davey's gigs are getting better attended
>but
> > > the average audience is rarely into three figures, low even for some
>of
>the
> > > small venues played, while Spacehead and Dr Hasbeen havea similar
>situation.
> > > Yet Hawkwind still do it wherever they go, obviously the known name
>that
> > > people put themselves out for.
> > > The theory runs that those of a 'certain age' or income bracket are
>either
> > > jaundiced of all the small conceerts and only go to big ones - or if
>they
> > > have to travel distance to the gigs,then the expensive peripherals
>make
>it
> > > all too much  - and so on.
> > > So, are the up and coming bands, even the known ones, doomed to play
>to
>such
> > > small audiences and is there no way of redressing this situation?
> > > Just a thought for all...........
> >
> >         I don't think this is the whole answer but I'm inclined to blame
> > the Internet for this. The things is that it's a marvellous tool for
> > reaching the people who care about such and such a band. You know where
> > all your fans are and so obviously you concentrate your effort there.
>But
> > it's no substitute for getting out there and putting posters up, getting
> > people onto venue mailing lists, handing out flyers, because those
>people
> > you reach with the net are *thousands* of miles apart and not many of
>them
> > will go to more than one gig. I think part of the problem is that the
>net
> > *seems* like such a useful publicity tool that people forget to use the
> > others. The net should be where people go to get information about an
> > event they've heard about, but there's so much of it that the people you
> > *need* to reach, the locals who'll just come to see or because it might
>be
> > a laugh and they can always go down the pub instead, the people you
> > *can't* rely on to find out by word of mouth, will never stumble across
>it
> > there. They need to walk past a poster by accident.
> >
> >         Of course fewer people are going to concerts because travel
>costs
> > are going up, and home entertainment is so much better than it used to
>be
> > and so much cheaper than going out; but I'm not sure everyone does
> > everything they can to fight this. I've never had the time to do it
> > properly myself but I've not seen many other band posters round here
> > since... well, the Bedouin gig before the one I organised, which was
> > nearly three years ago now. That's my thoughts on the matter, anyway.
>They
> > may not be terribly coherent as I'm falling asleep at the keyboard but
> > there you go. Yours,
> >                      Jon
> >
> > ObCD: Blue Oyster Cult - _Blue Oyster Cult_
> > --
> >            Jon Jarrett                     "Two men say they're Jesus,
> >           (01223 514989)                   One of 'em must be wrong..."
> >    jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk              (Mark Knopfler)


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