HW: Gun-slung-it

[trev]

But everyone comes to see Trev and Kev  (aka Trev and Fatso)

Big venues
Packed audiences
Brilliant musicianship
Humour
Sex appeal
Lots of drink
No rehearsals

Trev and Kev MySpace  http://www.myspace.com/trevandkev

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Judge Trev: http://www.judgetrev.com
AND THE BEAST WAS CAST ALIVE IN THE LAKE OF BURNING FIRE AND THE REST OF 
THEM WERE SLAIN BY THE ONE UPON THE WHITE HORSE AND HIS EYES WERE AS A FLAME 
OF FIRE HE WAS CROWNED WITH MANY CROWNS AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS HE JUDGES AND 
IN RIGHTEOUSNESS HE WAGES WAR


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From: "Jonathan Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:46 PM
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Subject: Re: HW: Gun-slung-it

> 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
>
> -- 
> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
>     (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
> Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>