From Andrew Scott Wells Sent Fri, Oct 23rd 1998, 09:05
From Andrew Scott Wells Sent Fri, Oct 23rd 1998, 09:05
Heh heh heh, I've been waiting for the right opportunity to respond to this
post. I'm fairly certain I've got you ALL beat. First, the theory, as
brought to us by one Tony Horner of Brisbane, Australia:
> Is there, he suggests jokingly, an inverse proportional relationship
> between these two factors? That is, as the lifestyle becomes more
> pleasant, does the music around you becomes more crap?
You THINK you're joking, but you're not; I submit, as exhibit A, MY current
setting, Columbia, Missouri, USA (it's about a four-hour drive south from
where Kent "chaircrusher" Williams lives, to give you a non-lurker basis for
comparison). Oh, the lifestyle's pleasant enough; there's little crime, low
cost-o'-living, etc.; but there is a price to be paid, and that is that you
live in a town whose biggest cultural event this year was the fucking
PROMISE KEEPERS :P, thus guaranteeing that no one even remotely out of the
mainstream will EVER come here again, even though it's a decent-sized
college town (apparently, we didn't have enough "art-fags" to drive them
out, eh Kent?). You laugh, but take a look at all of the major IDM tour
dates in the US that have been posted recently. Look at an atlas and
mentally picture all of those stops; you'll notice about a four-hundred-mile
radius zone of doom around Columbia into which very few IDM acts dare
enter--despite the audiences they could receive in places like Kansas City
or even *gasp* St. Louis. Oh, they'll go to little bumfuck college towns
_outside_ the zone of doom (Fort Collins gets MMM?! wtf is that? Boulder I
can understand, but Fort Collins? What, did Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan cancel
at the last minute?) why can't they come to MY little bumfuck college town,
dammit? :) There's an audience, here. Really there is! I know this list has
(or had at one time) a few people from Columbia on it, and out of only a
thousand or so listmembers worldwide, that's not a bad representation!
Which brings me to my scant IDM content. What, if anything, IS happening
hereabouts IDMwise in the near future (aside from Mix Master Mike in KC)?
St. Louis, Kansas City, Lawrence, anywhere within the aforementioned zone of
doom would be nice.
Thanks!
--Andy Wells
P.S.: just to put the other people who responded to this thread in their
place:
*Brisbane's a hell of a lot bigger than Columbia, we're about a thousand
miles from the nearest beach, and in OUR summers the humidity is downright
oppressive. And we have no local music magazines (at least nothing that
doesn't have the word hoe-down in it).
*Manchester and Sheffield are also bigger than Columbia and not nearly as
remote. I'll bet you could get to London much faster than it would take me
to drive to either St. Louis or Kansas City, and when you got there, you
wouldn't be shit(e) out of luck as far as IDM goes.
So in summation, to everyone else on the list who complained about the
hinterlandish qualities of their home town, please... CRY ME A FUCKING
RIVER! ;)