[kj]Brum downsize: Reasons Why!

[Shadforth, Jane SUKOP-OFI/3521]

Birmingham is not really England's second city when it comes to live music. It doesn't really have any decent venues since the Powerhouse closed, and turnout at the Academy's is typically poor - don't know why?? Most bands seem to play Wolves as their "west midlands" port of call on tours, with the Civic, Wulfrun, Little Civic providing good venues at the large, mid & small sizes.

Manchester on the other hand is always well-attended, (hence KJ's upgrade to the larger venue here), and the live scene is buzzing at the moment. The university has just started putting on bands in a 4th venue, and has taken on more staff to cope with the demands of putting on 2-4 gigs a night. And with "In the City" this weekend, "the UK's International Music Convention and Live Music Festival", I'd argue that Manchester is at least Britain's second city for live music, (if not the 1st??)

Jane


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> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of peter.west410
> Sent: 29 September 2005 22:11
> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
> Subject: Re: [kj]Brum downsize: Reasons Why!
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> Not being able to sell 600 tix in England's second city is a 
> sorry state of
> affairs, and you must ask yourself, why?
>       Why:killing joke gigs have become all to predictable 
> for the floating
> fans, you know exactly what you will get:Four songs from the 
> first album,
> Two songs from Revelations, Four songs from WTF!, Two from 
> Pandemonium, and
> two from the last album, and the actual songs they play from 
> these albums
> are quite predictable(Wardance, Psshyce,Requiem, The 
> Wait,Pandemonium, Sun
> goes down etc etc) and you know that Alex Harvey's 
> "Faithhealer" will be the
> opening music, Jaz will march out in his white face paint and 
> black clothes
> after the others have taken their places, stare wildly and then
> smile........you know what I mean, its all to predictable.
>  You just know that the sound will be a mess, distorted and 
> jumbled, so much
> so that you may not even know what song is being played.
>     That is why they are having trouble shifting tickets.
> They need to reinvent themselves, play some different songs, 
> sort the sound
> out.
>      I wish that they would only play songs from 1989 
> onwards, drop all the
> early stuff , the early stuff has been played to death and 
> everyone (band
> and fans) just goes through the motions.
> 
>  P.W
> 
> 
> 
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