On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Denise Dalphond <[email protected]> wrote: > Minx is playing the main stage - in the afternoon - but it's the main stage!
As she has done before. That was the year my friend Keleigh was in charge of the press passes, so I was able to get pics of Minx and others from right behind the decks... It's not a big secret that the daytime main stage slots are actually the booby prizes of the festival. It can be rainy, or hot, or both, and the crowd seems to not be much into it until the sun starts going down. > I wonder if they really think Moby is the shit. I wonder if they really are > big fans of Benny > Benassi. I think when you promote shows for a living your standards are a little different. You want to make money -- not just greed at work, but also the 'pinball' part of the job -- if you win you get to keep playing. You want to work with people who are professional, and not a pain in the ass. Benny and Rich are successful professionals who are guaranteed draws. And whatever you might think about their music, or whether they should be headlining at DEMF, it's clear to me that they both were thrilled to be there. You might think they're soulless hacks, but they're not dumb and they know what Detroit means to dance music. In a sense, Moby and Benny need Detroit a hell of a lot more than Detroit needs them. > I think it's way more complicated than just "Paxahau is racist" or > they are just a bunch of guys from the suburbs who don't care about > Detroit. > While I might quibble with some of Paxahau's decisions artistically, I think it's grossly unfair to talk sh1t about their motivations. Paxahau would be just fine without the festival -- in fact financially, they might actually be better off not doing it. Paxahau does the festival because they want the festival to continue, because they believe in it's importance to Detroit, and because doing a festival of this scale successfully is a huge accomplishment.
