HW - tape info

[dave hall]

Snorkwind, Andy. Firat appeared at Stonehenge.

Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: ANDREW GARIBALDI <andygee at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Date: 05 November 2001 00:31
Subject: Re: HW - tape info


>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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