[kj] The Complications opening for Killing Joke in Montreal

[fluw]

Oh chill out oliver you are reading way too much into the post. Just
relaying the harsh realty of an opening bands status.


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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of B. Oliver Sheppard
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:42 AM
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] The Complications opening for Killing Joke in Montreal

Yeah I pretty much qualified exactly what you just wrote when I said the 
[opening] band "emailed [that] me as far as he knew they were still 
pening for KJ in Montreal on the scheduled date. he had heard nothing 
about a cancellation. And they're an opening band. Not that KJ can be 
above fucking over their opening acts. :) I'm just saying - this one 
opening band in Montreal had heard nothing about KJ canceling."

In other words, I wrote exactly nothing that disagrees with what you 
felt the need to school me on I  was just throwing it out there as a 
piece of the puzzle, grasping at straws yet also saying, "Hey, here's 
what I know, for what it's worth.". I didn't say "HEY THIS MEANS IT'S 
STILL ON." At all. You wrote: "Most bands and their management couldn't 
give a f(*& about some podunk opening band." Sadly, you are right. And 
yet I had already said: "Not that KJ can be above fucking over their 
opening acts," before you mentioned management's shit attitude.

I understand a lot of self important people could give a shit about 
grassroots, "podunk," etc., opening bands, referred to with contempt and 
derision often for no valid reason. Which sucks, and more's the pity. 
Doesn't reflect well on how music managers treat people who help make 
their industry possible. The industry they live off. Anyway, not even 
sure what the point of your post was, since I qualified my own statement 
pretty clearly.

-Oliver

fluw wrote:

> oliver, just because they are opening for killing joke doesn't mean they

> have the inside track.

>

> Most bands and their management couldn't give a f(*& about some podunk

> opening band, and they will most likely only know what the general public

> knows until the last moment  

>   


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