Not sure about venues closing down. Like Neil said, Glasgow has some of the
best techno and house nights. When Slam at the Arches ended, many thought
that was the end of an era but with the Pressure night, again with Slam
hosting, its never been better. Gusts like May, Hawtin, Rolando, Luke
Slater. Atmosphere there is superb and Slam constantly deliver. Add the
sub-club (Sub Culture expecially), the Art School (Derrick May guested last
month and was superb, playing Glen Underground mix of I Feel Love and his
own Jaguar mix in amongst a very latin tinged set) and Alaska which Soma
Records have bought over and turned into a techno mecca (off to see Percy X
and Steve Bicknell this Saturday). And of course Club69 in nearby Paisley
(Octave One played not so long ago)....
Spoilt we are here in Glasgow....but I love it.
Cheers,
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: Cyclone Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 313 Detroit <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [313] Opinions..
>
> I was talking to someone from Edinburgh just the other day who told me a
few
> venues in Glasgow are closing down?? They pointed to the influence of
> England's media. I think press culture has a role in this - and radio. The
> fact that the UK is swayed by Radio One and big glossy magazines promotes
> uniformity and commercialism. That's why a diversity of small stations and
> street papers is vital. There is talk of a national dance mag starting in
> Australia - based in Sydney and run by UK publishers - and I fear this
will
> mean that our diversity will be compromised. It's very hard to convince
> English industry types (esp those aligned with large clubs) that each
> country has its own unique make-up and that other scenes are not merely
> small, backward models of theirs. They just come here and see what they
want
> to see. Very few industry types in Sydney have a clue about techno (it is
> very subcultural there, I think other Sydney guys on this list would
agree,
> this is why we should send Christmas cards to Southern Outpost, Fuzzy,
etc,
> for keeping it real!!) so if a magazine came out of there you could bet
that
> people we care about in Melbourne or Adelaide or Perth or Sydney's
> underground would have to conform. Thank God also that the Sydney street
> press still covers techno and at least gives people the option of finding
> out about it, a Sydney glossy won't do the same. Any one see that letter
> written by Sydney's Ministry of Sound boys in 7 in which they refuted that
> Ben Sims was popular in Australia with the rather embarassing "who the
hell
> is Ben Sims?" Nice guys who just have to do their homework. Like they
didn't
> have an inkling that Sims was a drawcard in cities like Melbourne. It was
> really funny to us but was more Sydney-centricism/UK-centricism than
> ignorance. They just know flossy players like Judge Jules, Nick Warren,
Dave
> Seaman, etc.
>
>
>
> >I feel the same about Glasgow (Scotland) in many respects ...
>
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