A quote from the Freep article: "...city officials say Craig failed to meet city-imposed deadlines requiring contracts for artists who are scheduled to perform Memorial Day weekend. The city, which co-presents the Hart Plaza festival, requests 30 days for processing the deposits made to artists to secure their appearances. Those payments can run in the tens of thousands of dollars."
No matter which way you look at it, this alone is not sufficient ground for firing a creative director of such a successful festival. Two possible explanations: 1) He did a lot more things wrong than this that they want to keep the lid on for his and the festival's benefit or 2) they were looking for a way to get rid of him and now they've found a reason. My money is (obviously) on the second explanation, since it so obviously reeks of media manipulation. Paraphrasing the article: "Carl didn't do the organizing side of the lineup well (the contracts) and he didn't do the content side well (not enough Detroit on the lineup), can you blame us for booting such an incompetent guy?" Bollocks to that. Any bets on the chance that next year SFX and 89x will be on the "...advisory board made up of artists and others in the Detroit techno industry." Note the 'others'... Cynically yours, Otto --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
