From zimbo Sent Wed, Aug 5th 1998, 18:40
> Also, does anybody have any tips on how to bring a non-traditional crowd > into the more intelligent side of electronic music? We know that it > won't be overnight, and we'll probably have to still deal with the stupid > "play some spice girls" request, but we want to expose people to all this > music we constantly discuss on this list. yeah. dont give up. if something happens long enough, slowly people will come back, and bring more people with them. no shit. we did this thing here is socal called "green eggs and ham" (silly name, yeah, but it was damn fun!). music ran from trance to house to idm-ish stuff to jungle to ambient to hardcore to whatever.. kind of an anything goes type atmosphere.. there was even some merzbow and nurse with wound at some point it was a sunday daytime thing in the park.. we did small bits of promotion, got some flyers out (literally the size of 1/2 business card). it was also in orange county, a place that doesnt have much going on (everyone runs to LA). the setup was very simple and minimal we started off with like 10 people the first day in the park. a few months later, we hit 300. the increase was VERY slow at first. but suddenly more people started coming, and in the next few weeks, it exploded on itself. the last day was the most people we had, which was fine by me, because it was fun, but im not into babysitting and cleaning up after so many people week after week.. so it ended big and nice i guess. anyway -- point being, keep at it, and dont give up. have a variety of styles.. yadda yadda yadda.. enjoy! chris. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [*<n/ff> <=rr*/a|>r] - wednesdays 7-8 pm riders of the plastic groove - fridays 9-midnight kuci 88.9fm po box 4362 irvine ca 92616 -:.:'-"-':_/'"'"\_|'\-"-':_/_|'\_|'\_/'"'_/'"'"\_.:'-".:'-"'"'_/'"'_//'"'"