one of the things that used to piss me off abt live reviews in eg NME/MM in the 80s — when i actually wrote for papers like that — is that, even as the availability of places to play collapsed in eg London, NO ONE EVER WROTE ABOUT OR DISCUSSED THIS
the UK rock inkies at that had a HUGE bully-pulpit available to agitate for better conditions for punters in the clubs that actually existed - i'm not even talking abt threats to life and limb, i'm talking abt basic comfort, abt asking for places you cd enjoy spending time in and not feel oppressed and ripped off
yes of course venues could withdraw advertising in protest, but (then) they wd also immediately have suffered from the lack of promotion that followed
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 22 February 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 22 February 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)
ie when MAGAZINE X reviews an event at VENUE Y, whether pos or neg re music, it concludes EVERY TIME with a sentence such as:
"As a venue, the Weeny Stinkpot is an overpriced insult to its customers." (or whatever the fault is)
And let the repetition do the work...
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 22 February 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)
there are a lot of bad venues in the world, and it would be good to draw attention to them so maybe promoters and bands would look to play in other places.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 22 February 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Saturday, 22 February 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 22 February 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)
it's bernard brooke-partridge's posthumous revenge
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 22 February 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Saturday, 22 February 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 22 February 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)
Only last week Peel was bemoaning the fact that he couldn't have more people at Maida Vale for some session and was railing against the authorities who were limiting the nunbers for safety reasons.
Irony is of course is that 'rave' culture wouldn't have happened without people breaking into disused warehouses, hangars and other equally dangerous venues.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 22 February 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate, Saturday, 22 February 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 22 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 22 February 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)
thatcher used it a lot
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 23 February 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 24 February 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)