well im just repeating what ive heard, but damn Frederic is not an easy
guy to work with (please note im saying something polite)...
but well fair enough, i got som etime to chat with Mills during sonar so
it seems more people than we think are "allowed" to discuss with him
--
Benoît.
Garrett McGrath a écrit :
correct, that one was cancelled. supposedly due to poor pre-sales, but
who really knows. i think that "wizard" show did eventually happen 4-6
months later...? memory there is hazy cuz i didn't have the chance to
consider going.
kent your other points are very well taken. if you've ever spoken to
frederick you know booking mills is like booking a major rock band; AND
he's generally very unpleasant. some kids who want to have a party
[dude] aren't going to get anywhere with him. i think there is also
some degree of jeff doesn't have faith in party/club goers in this
country and largely just wants to avoid the whole thing. i'm sure that
part would never be admitted to. but in the last decade in north
america pretty much the only place he has played is NYC, save a handful
of detroit things, the mini US tour he did last summer, and richie's
Sickness party in 1996. plus he has said on a number of occasions that
when he's in detroit/chicago, he just wants to relax... as you said.
On Jul 15, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Kent Williams wrote:
I may be mistaken, but wasn't this State Theatre event the one that
was canceled?
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=1314
i.e. March 1 2001.
On 7/15/05, /0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i dont know what state theatre show you're talking about, but I
remembe rthe agents of change party, and it was packed.
the state theatre is rather still-born in terms of techno venues...
From: Kent Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2005/07/15 Fri PM 12:45:00 EDT
To: /0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Robert Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "fab."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
313@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: Re: (313) Lost Sunday 28th August 2005
Mills doesn't play anywhere in the US very often. I don't know the man
so I only have second-hand accounts of why this is, which nevertheless
are quite plausible.
#1 -- and probably the most important: In Europe, the sort of people
who hire him are experienced professionals, who set up events in a
competent and straightforward fashion. He has pleasant and mutually
beneficial relationships with those people. I'm sure there are
exceptions to this, but they only book him once.
Present company excepted of course, this is not the case in the United
States. By and large promoters in the US are either incompent yet
idealistic post-ravers trying to re-live the early 90s, or out and out
criminals.
#2 -- Mills' management very successfully insulate him from a lot of
the people who are interested in booking him in the US. If you see
Mills playing in the US you can be certain that it came about through
the efforts of people who he knows well enough that they can talk to
him directly, bypassing his management.
#3 -- Mills doesn't have to play here to earn a living. I don't know
the man, but I think when he's here in the US, he's tending to Axis
business and living well below the radar. It's probably a nice break
from the hero treatment he gets in Europe and Japan, which can no
doubt be exhausting.
#4 - As for Detroit, specifically, the last thing I heard about was
the State Theatre show that got canceled for lack of ticket sales.
That has to rankle.
On 7/15/05, /0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
if mills came to detroit, it would be an EVENT.
there is at least once-a-year demand for him in detroit, and thats
extremely
conservative. if richie hawtin can pack any place in detroit a
couple times a
year, surely mills can. not to mention the tools like bad boy
bill and richard
(humpy) vision (or wtf it is) that play here regularly, and
probably pack clubs
with the kind of people that make you wish the venue would get
sucked into a
black hole.
