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| From | "bob" <segarini@sympatico.ca> |
| Subject | Re: IPO Toronto |
| Date | Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:38:05 -0400 |
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Well if that doesn't get people excited about coming to Toronto, I don't
know what will...
bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: IPO Toronto
> At Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:31:25 David Bash wrote:
>
> >>Bob, there is quite a bit of pop in Canada but most people in Canada
and
> > > certainly the labels don't know about it. The labels here are quite
> >easily
> > > influenced by live music
>
> Since when? CMW, NXNE, ECMA and other festivals have done little to sway
the
> industry into signing a fistful of new acts -- they're merely
> self-agrandizing booze fests. Self-financed, self-produced FINISHED
product
> stuffed up the assess of A & R reps with self-promoted BDS radio charts
and
> Soundscan reports are the ONLY things interesting the labels right now.
>
> Effectively, you have to prove that you can do their job better than
> them...so they can play "clean-up" to your hard work. Witness Danko Jones
> and Sam Roberts...two acts who were already on the take when the labels
> decided to "invest". These guys couldn't get arrested by the industry from
> performing live -- only the fans knew what was going on.
>
> >and if a whole week of pop converged upon Toronto, they would take
notice.
>
> Doubt it. You'd have to pick them up in a bus, with catering, on a Tuesday
@
> 6PM, liquour 'em up, tell them all their industry cronies were going to be
> there and have them back at the 18th hole by 6:30 PM.
>
> >I agree wholeheartedly with both of you, along with Jaimie Vernon, with
> >whom I've been speaking >over the past year about having an IPO in
Toronto.
> > It's something that I feel confident will happen, >but I don't want to
> >get ahead of myself. :-)
>
> David,
> The city is dead. The clubs are dead and the support mechanism is dead.
The
> SARS crises has nailed the lid on the entertainment coffin. They're
throwing
> a huge concert here with the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, and The Guess
Who
> among others to help prop up tourism. A one-day event at Downsview
Airfield
> is not going to turn the economy around. How about everybody start
> supporting the clubs IN TOWN that are already suffering?
>
> HOWEVER....HAMILTON -- a mere 60 kilometres west is an absolute HAVEN for
> this type of festival. We just finished up the Dave Rave/Paul Hyde/Joe
> Mannix/Kate Schrock Grand Song Caravan -- we SOLD OUT two nights in
Hamilton
> @ the Staircase Theatre...that's 200 people @ $12.00 a head, folks. Did
the
> same thing in Toronto....got 29 people. Do the math.
>
>
> Jaimie Vernon,
> President,
> Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.
> http://www.bullseyecanada.com
> "Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!"
>
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