Even for big commercial promoters Benny is hardly a big draw now. He
had one hit with Satisfaction, won a Grammy for a lame PE remix... IF
you wanted to go commercial now some of the fidget housers are a
bigger draw... That's what commercial types book here now.
Promoters here in Oz are also starting to book acts for an older
crowd, like The Human League who perform the whole of Dare. THAT is
cool as they do have young fans. That would fit in better than BB.
It baffles me why the people behind the Detroit festival are so
determined to turn it into a generic festival like it could be
anywhere in the world. That's not hating, as I do go to generic
festivals and enjoy bits of them, but would international travellers
go all that way to visit a festival like they get here, complete with
full interrogation by foreign hating customs? Nope.
Cyclone Wehner
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On 19/03/2009, at 1:03 AM, kent williams wrote:
Let the hating begin?
There are some Detroit names I'm glad to see but it seems pretty
front-loaded with Europeans. Not necesarily a bad thing -- witness
the year the Dutchies all came.
But considering they're probably going to be paying bushel baskets of
hundred dollar bills to Benny Benassi and Carl Cox, they could have
booked some Detroit guys who would be big draws, and don't play in
Detroit much.
In a perfect world, Francois Kevorkian would play next to the river
first thing Sunday and make it the ghost of Body and Soul.
