I have serious doubts as to whenther people like Kirk Degiorgio or Francisco
Mora and the Outerzone Orchestra would appear on Carol Marvin, SFX and "the
commitee's" lineup next year.
I have a feeling it would be more like Sasha Van Oakenweed and the Ford
Focus Dancers, with Regis Philbin and the cast from Survivor as guest MCs...
From: Otto Koppius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 313 <313@hyperreal.org>
Subject: [313] The vultures move in...
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 21:13:45 +0200
A quote from the Freep article:
"...city officials say Craig failed to meet city-imposed deadlines
requiring contracts for artists who are scheduled to perform Memorial
Day weekend. The city, which co-presents the Hart Plaza festival,
requests 30 days for processing the deposits made to artists to secure
their appearances. Those payments can run in the tens of thousands of
dollars."
No matter which way you look at it, this alone is not sufficient ground
for firing a creative director of such a successful festival. Two
possible explanations: 1) He did a lot more things wrong than this that
they want to keep the lid on for his and the festival's benefit or 2)
they were looking for a way to get rid of him and now they've found a
reason.
My money is (obviously) on the second explanation, since it so obviously
reeks of media manipulation. Paraphrasing the article: "Carl didn't do
the organizing side of the lineup well (the contracts) and he didn't do
the content side well (not enough Detroit on the lineup), can you blame
us for booting such an incompetent guy?"
Bollocks to that. Any bets on the chance that next year SFX and 89x will
be on the "...advisory board made up of artists and others in the
Detroit techno industry." Note the 'others'...
Cynically yours,
Otto
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