HW: Gun-slung-it

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:25:06AM -0500, Lost Johnny typed out: 
>                                                          None of the bands
> ,Spaceritual ,Hawkwind ,Alan Davey ,are exactly drawing "great" crowds live
> . They all play small venues with small crowds.  A big part of that is the
> money problems from the economy ,and especially no major record labels to
> fund publicity and promote and pay for tours .But also the fact that in the
> UK ,Nik's Spaceritual crowd won't go see Dave's Hawkwind and Dave's Hawkwind
> crowd won't go see Nik's Spaceritual . And Dave's Hawkwind fans won't go see
> Alan's  Gunslinger and Alan's fans won't go Dave's Hawkwind . And that
> thinking hurts all three bands big time in ticket and record sales and money
> coming in . Come anywhere around Chicago ,and I'll go see all three .

	This just doesn't match my experience at all. There are a fvew 
hardliners in the Nik camp who won't go and see Dave, mainly it seems 
because Nik's gigs are cheaper or because they count themselves as Nik's 
friends. And there is just a size to Hawkwind gigs, with attendant 
postering and gig listings for the relevant venues, that mean people 
come out for them who don't for the smaller bands, perhaps because they 
just don't know. But mainly I see the same people at HW and SR and when 
I saw Gunslinger some of them were there too. The opposition is mainly 
the bands themselves, really. Yours,
				     Jon

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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk