HW: Summerfest 2003

[Allan Sharpe]

I agree whole-heartedly with the guy with the blue skin.... but
unfortunately you mention Hawkwind down here & most people ask if it's the
name of a boat or horse.
The worst part is that my wife wouldn't let me call my daughter Hawkwind or
Magnu - I thought it might help to create public awareness.

Allan Sharpe
sharpies at idx.com.au

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cpt Blue Skin" <michael_1968 at OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Summerfest 2003


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