HW: Summerfest 2003

[Cpt Blue Skin]

but it should be in australia - otherwise mmmmm ummmmmm
it just should be hear ;-)

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Cpt Blue Skin

----- Original Message -----
From: M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: HW: Summerfest 2003


> Rik Rx writes:
>
> > + +   + + +   +STAR WARRIORS + +++   +  +
> >
> > Greetings and best wishes to all from Hawkwind for 2003
> >
> > The band wondered if people would be interested in another Hawkfest this
> > year.
> > If there is enough interest, then we will have to begin organising it
pretty
> > soon.
>
> If you build it I will come. Definitely. I worked over xmas to save the
> leave for it.
>
> > Our main question is:
> > If it happens, would people still want it to be kept to passport holders
> > only this time?
>
> There's something to be said for making it mainly for the the fans.
> Certainly I wouldn't want to see it as commercial as Glastonbury has
> become nor as awfully rock'n'burgers as Reading.  The Hawkwind fan
> community by and large know each other and are a community in the real
> sense and diluting that too far in a festival would make it lose
> something special.
>
> That said, clearly we need enough people so that the bands can be paid
> and the stallholders make a living. That amounts to more than last time.
> I'm sure that with one success behind us we can attract more of the
> dedicated fans. However the net will probably have to go at least a
> little further than that. Certainly let's extend it to family and
> friends of passport holders and those Hawkwind fans who aren't yet
> passport holders. It'd also be reasonable to get in folks from the rest
> of the spacerock community.
>
> I think just opening it right up to a public festival would risk
> diluting it too far. That can be mitigated by choice of bands being kept
> to Hawkwind related and spacerock but while we should extend the
> attendee base, I think we should think carefully about how to do that
> rather than just advertise to the general public. I know from experience
> that the wrong crowd can pretty easily break a festival and the band
> have more than enough similar experience with the likes of the Brew Crew.
>
> I know that there was an issue between keeping it to a similar remit to
> last time or going in with a more general festival. I'm very much for
> the former. Keep it Hawk-related, but yes, let's extend the fanbase.
> Moving it geographically closer to Bristol than Exeter might encourage
> more folks to travel. Beer was a great area of the country, but not
> exactly easy to get to for those far from the South.
>
> Could we have comment from the bands and organisers about how many we
> need to make this work without anyone losing their shirts? Then take
> into account having enough loos etc for that number and recalculate?
>
> Once we have a ballpark figure for that, we know how much further we
> need to extend it.
>
> From my own long experience of rock festivals, once you get past 5000 you
> lose the sense of community and it becomes something else. Hopefully
> we're not talking that kind of number?
>
> And thanks to all concerned for the last one and for being prepared to
> host this rabble again ;-)
>
> FoFP