Review: Threshold Festival (part 3) - Sunday! (Part 2 - Culture Of Capital)

 

(Image of a previous panel from our friends at The Double Negative. That’s me with the green hat. #famous)

This is basically just a follow up with my views from my contribution on the Threshold Festival’s Industry Panel last Sunday (12.02.12) where I joined Rich Pontefrat (Another Media/Calm), Philip Hayes (The Picket), Gemma Smith (Snub Fest) and Mo Maghazachi (Aurora Media) to talk about venue closures and surrounding issues. There is a lot of focus on the negatives of the local music scene’s state at the moment and understandably. But we need to look at the bigger picture, past scenes and natural inevitabilities…

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Preview: This is SNUB round DEUX.

2nd, 3rd & 5th of February @ Lomax

Let’s stop the fighting amongst the bands. Let’s unite and bring camaraderie to the arts scene instead of bands fighting amongst …themselves for a mediocre slot not even their mothers can be bothered to get out of bed for. And let’s face it, if you wanted to take part in a voting system, you’d have auditioned for X-Factor…

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