I love me a bit of controversy.
Once upon a time in Birmingham, a slightly negative post was made about an entity.
Said entity found out about said post, and became quite cross.
Several people saw this happening and thought “You what? Keep your knickers on.”
This became highly amusing, and so I had to join in, even from my sickbed.
Obviously, I have no comment to make about the whole thing, for fear of having my own wrist slapped by the grumpy entity. I would, however, point out that the voting structure is not being credited with enough complexity – there is also an industry vote which can be used for as many bands as the A&R folk like (linky). To their credit, they are being open and honest with the votes, having them available on the intarwebs like that.
Also, the disputed quote from their T&C for the artists (although if it were confidential I can quite understand that they might not like it being quoted directly) is backed up by one of the main pages of their own website. 25 people required. So it’s a bit silly of them to get their panties in a whirl about a quote when the same information is publicly available.
Oh and as I understand it, round two tickets are £7 each, and round three £8. Just so you know.
7 responses so far ↓
Anthony Hughes // May 19, 2008 at 11:33 am |
Fair assessment I thought…So what’s your point?
whoopscareless // May 19, 2008 at 1:07 pm |
Just interested, is all. What’s yours?
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Dave G // May 20, 2008 at 6:31 pm |
My twopence thus far:
The voting bit is a bit arbitrary. It relies on people being honourable and sticking their hand up for bands they like, rather than only for their mates’ bands. Some people are like this, but some people are not. The system is also vulnerable to the ole pop-around-the-back-and-stick-your-hand-up-again-on-the-other-side-of-the-room exploit. Confirmed. Seen it in action.
The increasing price per ticket is also interesting. A “friend of mine” is convinced his band are going to have to sell 40+ tickets to get through Round 2. At £7 a pop. That kind of hard sell has got to be difficult, especially when the gig-goers see 20 minutes of the band they care about and 120 minutes bands they don’t. That’s about £3 per minute.
Finally, the Copyright infringement thing. Whoever sent that takedown notice was a complete idiot. It was obviously not going to work, and it was obviously going to blow up in Surface’s face. Duh.
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Mockingbird // June 19, 2008 at 2:11 pm |
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Mockingbird!