shitty scheduling: why cant promoters get it right?

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so, last night was valentines night, and michael mayer was playing barcelona. on the same night, sutekh was playing somewhere else.
this would have been a headache on any night.- but on valentines night? why the fuck would my girlfriend want to listen to tech house on 14th feb? (yes i know there are lots of couples that would happily go to this sort of thing on valentines day but...not us, right?). assuming that like, 1/3 of people are in a couple or something and want to do something, come the 14th.

my question is, why would promoters in barcelona think, hang on, "there's like this totally famous dj, michael mayer playing, lets put sutekh on on the same night, because the sort of people that want to see m. mayer are exactly the sort of people that want to see sutekh, so we could halve our audience this way!"

this is no "joined up thinking". and i havbe been the victim of it too many times. the fact that i couldnt go to either was even moire irritatiing.

so why do promoters not appear to bother checking this sort of thing out?

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 15 February 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Because via competition they can then try and persuade more people to attend their show in particular, thus earning them money, of which promoters are fond.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

yes but in a city with a finite number of people into one style of music eg less than the capacity of the club, then any competition is going to harm both sides.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 15 February 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it's something in the water.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Wouldn't it also depend on the schedule of the artist? Maybe both could only play on those particular nights?

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 15 February 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

blonde redhead, icarus line and melissa auf de maur all play monday night in london, but i am already committed to seeing explosions in the sky / part chimp (both of whom will blow me away, i'm sure, buuuuut...)

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a good thing, too. 'auf der maur' (nice name, geek) is as much a joke as that other bassist from that awful 'perfect cirle' band. The one who quit who has an even more annoying name.

― JesusMaryChain, Sunday, 15 February 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

So is your own name John Johns or what?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, it's 'Ned Raggett.' The kids at school used to kick my ass on account of the surname rhyming with a less than desirable, derogatory classification.

― JesusMaryChain, Sunday, 15 February 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Because single people go out on Feb 14th too?

― ___ (___), Sunday, 15 February 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Mm, clarity.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

ok forget the valentines thing, but this happened to me too many times. in a samll city (eg sheffield), where the number of people who are into like one sort of scene is pretty small, and yet the scheduling is set up so that an already small number is divided, meaning everyone loses out. i mean, i know the artists schedule must be the main factor, but i would have thought it wouldnt have been worth the bother for either party to do it in the first place. this isnt big business we are talking about here! i mean, competition is *not* beneficial as far as i can see!

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 15 February 2004 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Ambrose, where do you live?
In big cities with healthy club scenes these sorts of conflicts happen quite often.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 15 February 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

hahaha another saturday, another problem: vilalobos vs geoff white from force inc. theyu are playing in cluybs that are 10 mins walk from each other.

so im gonna go from this over saturation (primavera sound anyone), back to london where there is jack going on. oh well cest la vie etc.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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