From Andrew Hime Sent Sun, May 9th 1999, 16:51
From Andrew Hime Sent Sun, May 9th 1999, 16:51
Okay, let's say a certain list member has been granted something approaching responsibility for booking for a certain rave promoter in a certain town. Let's say Dallas. And let's say this list member has been asked to book not the DJs for the main sound systems with pumping house and drum and bass or whatever the kids like. Let's say instead that this list member is suddenly faced with booking a "third room" or whatever you want to call it, with pretty much total support for whatever he wants to do. The catch would be this in our hypothetical situation: Nobody gets paid. Maybe. This hypothetical rave promo company or whatever you want to call it throws $5 events and is dedicated to not throwing big expensive parties, but instead about that intangible "keeping it real". That means that people who aren't necessarily a draw (ie a "third system") probably aren't going to see any pay in return for their time. If any, it'll be a little dosh as a result of the party breaking even, which (let's say) past ones have not. So, my question (after setting up all this background) is - would any of you do it? I mean, if I were an IDM artist and someone asked me to perform at their event, I'd probably go and do it for the hell of it (oh hell - this isn't all that hypothetical anyway, and my DJing sucks ass - I have done it for free, I don't think I should get paid for my trainwrecks). I understand totally that making music is an expensive habit, but I wonder if on the outside there are people out there not getting heard who'd be willing to do something like this, go play an event where people aren't necessarily there to even see you and just to take that where it goes. I mean, on the one hand, you might find random people walking by or what have you discover what you're doing and really enjoy it. Alternately, one could thrive on trying to get the crowd to hate you. Okay. So I guess this sounds very backslapping like I'm congratulating myself on some newfound power (about which I have no delusions, really). But really, I'm just wondering - would anyone out there just drop things and go do a freeish show for the joy or exposure of it? I'm not trying to troll for artists (the next event is on the 29th, so there's really no time) but just to see what everyone else would do. Thoughts?