poor choices
Mar. 16th, 2005 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rootofnewtSee, there's this thing about weeknight club events. Opening bands should do just that--open. They should start well before midnight, so that the headlining band goes on no later than, say, 12:15 or 12:30. Folks have to work, study, or sleep. Some folks have to drive a long way. Everybody should get to see both bands, but it's kind of hard when the main act doesn't go on until 1am or later. This is what happens when an opening act is told they start at midnight and have a 45-50 minute set. That's not cool. It's seriously not cool.
Keep in mind that those bandmembers have to have or be drivers. And those drivers have to be awake. Sure, maybe the promoter can handle those weird hours, but some of us have chronic illnesses which require sane hours. Some folks have to work the next day and have to put forth a hell of a lot of effort. Some have classes. It's a disservice to the patrons of the event, as well. On a weeknight, I expect to be leaving a club around 1am--if a band goes on later than that, I have to stay (and risk my precarious health) or leave and miss the act I've *paid to see*. If I were a fan and discovered an opening act wasn't going to start until midnight on a weeknight, I'd skip the show and wait for another chance to see the main act.
Sure, I don't have to pay money to get in to shows where my husband plays, but I have to pay in energy, pain, and oxygen deprivation.
Musicians do this for the love of the music. Sure, any compensation is nice, but the compensation in this case seems to be a complete lack of appreciation or consideration. The guys in Silent Muse are nice, but that doesn't mean other people won't stick up for them. They don't deserve this kind of bullshit.
Keep in mind that those bandmembers have to have or be drivers. And those drivers have to be awake. Sure, maybe the promoter can handle those weird hours, but some of us have chronic illnesses which require sane hours. Some folks have to work the next day and have to put forth a hell of a lot of effort. Some have classes. It's a disservice to the patrons of the event, as well. On a weeknight, I expect to be leaving a club around 1am--if a band goes on later than that, I have to stay (and risk my precarious health) or leave and miss the act I've *paid to see*. If I were a fan and discovered an opening act wasn't going to start until midnight on a weeknight, I'd skip the show and wait for another chance to see the main act.
Sure, I don't have to pay money to get in to shows where my husband plays, but I have to pay in energy, pain, and oxygen deprivation.
Musicians do this for the love of the music. Sure, any compensation is nice, but the compensation in this case seems to be a complete lack of appreciation or consideration. The guys in Silent Muse are nice, but that doesn't mean other people won't stick up for them. They don't deserve this kind of bullshit.
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Date: 2005-03-17 02:04 am (UTC)WHY would I ever speak for Silent Muse?
I speak enough for myself that I don't have time to speak for anyone else.
I don't understand why everyone's having such a shitfit over this show. It's a show. They can show up and, as you so plainly put it, "play their hearts out, whether the crowd numbers three or three hundred."
I'm done with this. Honestly, I'm not sorry, especially after all the bullshit drama I've had to deal with due to the way I wanted to promote this show. I'll be glad when it's over, and I can move on to promoting the next show we have at the Raygun next month.
End communication.
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Date: 2005-03-17 03:18 am (UTC)Right there's where you presumed to speak for SM. Maybe you haven't spoken to SM and aren't aware that they requested DNY to play. Sure, I'm not in SM, but I'm married to a member. Maybe you know the band better than I do.
Sure, it's a show. When it starts an *hour* later than it should on a weeknight, it's an imposition.
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Date: 2005-03-17 11:11 am (UTC)Whether or not they wanted us is out of my knowledge being that I can't read minds, BUT I do know that Jaide promised us a show, and it was finalized by myself and Will, Chad, Patrick, and Jaide at Stu's "Save Ferris Party" after already talking to Jim and Jaide about it for around one month.
You read my first comment all wrong, and decided to take the defensive. The original comment in this thread was meant as a kind of sympathetic thing towards you and Silent Muse, letting you know that it wasn't MY or Dead New Year's decision. Take it as that.