And you don't think this is true for the US?! It is, and by far worse. Everyone I'd love to see are constantly being booked over in Europe. Suburban Knight is right from my hometown, but he plays overseas more than he does right here in Detroit!
---> Maybe that's because he resides in Belgium for a couple of months a year...
It's depressing. There are many
promoters here that would love to bring people in, but because they are "underground small-atmosphere" functions, they just don't have the money to do it. It often is that no one here cares. People here care about what's on the surface, the commercial attraction. People like Sasha and Digweed, DJ Irene, DJ Skribble, Darude (your basic lame ass shows) are booked in Detroit and in the US, thousands of people will go to those shows. But if someone like Claude Young came and played Detroit, the turn-out rate would be a lot less. Commercialism is HORRIBLE in a capitalist society, things take much longer to evolve. In Europe you have many electronic music festivals and events I would love to go to, there's only a few here that interest me at all.
---> All sounds very familiar, but here you would at least have a decent turnout for Claude Young. My main point is that - as Tristan put it - the grass is always greener on the other side. Lots of US folks think Europe is heaven, but that often isn't the case. Just trying to save you the disappointment I guess. Besides it's up to everyone individual what he/she is looking for in the nightlife.
John
>>> It's how some promotors try to get money out of every single aspect related to a party. It has nothing to do with music anymore. Another frustration on my side is the fact that almost nobody (mind though, there are exceptions) dares to take any risks anymore: always the same names on the flyers.>>> >> > > You US folks (and other) just enjoy the small-scale underground >atmosphere; > > here everything is turning so commercial. Yeah sure, we do get a lot of > > great artists over, but what's the use if nearly everything these days >gets > > watered down and commercialised.
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