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From | "Michael Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk> |
Subject | Re: SXSW News/Rumors |
Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:53:41 +0000 |
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"Corporate-Sponsored Rat Fu$k"
Isn't this the title of the new Rolling Stones album?
>From: Bill Silvers <wsilvers@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: SXSW News/Rumors
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:43:46 -0500 (EST)
>
>Jennifer Leduc clipped:
>
> >From the Austinist.com :
> >
> >Last week, the Austin Chronicle reported that officials at SXSW are
>delaying
> >the release of their huge band list. The rationale is that a late release
> >will cut down on the rampant day party scene from last year since party
> >planners won't know who is playing until late in the game. Given the
> >unbridled love we have for day parties, we have our doubts about the
> >effectiveness of these tactics, but that still doesn't get you a band
>list,
> >does it?
>
>Wow, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given how fan-unfriendly the
>organizers have done their best to make SXSW in the past few years, but
>this is just so stupid. Sure, I'll feel terrible in March as the event
>arrives and the "I'm not going" remorse sets in, but for average fan-types,
>SXSW is done. They've made wristbands illogically expensive (and
>inaccessible for out-of-towners) to tamp down the non-business types, and
>now they're peeing on the day parties. May they drown in their CSRF*
>mammon.
>
>b.s., '99, '00, '01, '05 and '06 attendee
>
>* "Corporate-Sponsored Rat Fu$k"
>
>
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