Yeah, I was going to post this - just read it. The whole article is full of innaccuracies, just one of which was describing Paul van Dyk as "techno's biggest star". But the bit about Banks takes the biscuit - as if! He could probably sue if he wanted to...
Shame that the Guardian, easily the best national newspaper in the UK, should print such a load of toss. TOM PS: don't worry, John, we won't hold being Belgian against you... it's not your fault... :-) > Another extract that made my frown: > > "Last year, Sony Records Germany made the mistake of trying to get round > this by releasing a note-for-note cover version of the UR track Jaguar by DJ > Rolando. Banks heard about it, caught the first plane to Germany, armed > himself, sought out the man proposing the release and told him that he would > kill him and everyone else involved if the version went ahead. Mills, who > did a remix of Jaguar, is not talking to the press." > > Plane to Germany, armed himself, kill the man and everyone else > involved????? > > Ermmm, who has this guy been talking to? I still have to read the article > thoroughly, but I've found so much bullshit for now that I'm taking a break > from it. > > John > > Yet another one: "We have come from Antwerp to be here, and we can't stop > now," a very young man with a flat-top haircut tells me. "Also, I have just > taken another pill." > > Grrr, ashamed to be Belgian! > > > > > > > > > >From: "Mann, Ravinder [CCS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: '313' <313@hyperreal.org> > >Subject: [313] mayday festival > >Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 11:51:01 +0100 > > > > > > "WORLD LARGEST TECHNO FESTIVAL" - really!?!? > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,482416,00.html > > > > Article from today The Guardian...I think they need to replace the word > > techno with trance a number of times. > > > > "But looking at this crowd, Underground Resistance's manifesto > > seems a world away. The Detroit pioneers wished to create a > > faceless music where the machine, not the person, was the > > star. At 3am the crowd greeted Sven Vath with a roar. " > > > > I think the above quote for me was all that was needed to be said, the > >rest? > > pure jibberish and misinformation imho. Any thoughts.. > > > > Am I getting just too cynical in my old age? > > > > Rav > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
