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From: orb-admin@mailman.xmission.com
[mailto:orb-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On
Behalf Of Harry Walker
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002
5:28 AM
To: orb@mailman.xmission.com
Subject: Re: [Orb] re: LX in Bklyn
two nights ago
Electronic
music outings in the US sound like bollocks. Maybe you should move to England
mate- saw Hextatic and Colcut yesterday- pretty blinding, Scanner last Firday
and Underworld on Saturday- Jedi Knights/ Global Communication next Saturday
etc. etc. etc.
>From:
"Alan Evil"
>Reply-To:
orb@mailman.xmission.com
>To:
>Subject:
[Orb] re: LX in Bklyn two nights ago
>Date: Thu,
31 Oct 2002 18:38:55 -0500
>
>WARNING
WARNING WARNING
>LENGTHY,
SEMI-INCOHERENT DIATRIBE WITH OBSCENITIES!!!
>
>
>AMK
ontrabecki wrote:
>
> "He
told me that there wasn't any US fanbase and that LX hardly gets any
>US
press..."
>
>Alan Evil
writes:
>
>Fucking
morons. There are a quarter of a BILLION people in this country.
>Hardly any
press here still reaches more people than England has in total.
>I guess
they never sold any Orb records in the US. No income whatsoever and
>no one ever
went to any concerts. Sounds to me like a bullshit promoter
>that didn't
do his job. It seemed to me that in New Orleans whenever LX
>dj-ed there
was at least a decent crowd if not a mob but I don't even ONCE
>remember a
promoter coming to the record store I worked in to promote the
>show. I
guess all the people that shopped in the "dance" section wouldn't
>have
noticed a sign announcing the show. That record store was in the
>French
Quarter where LX was spinning and it was the biggest fucking record
>store in
the southern US. I'm so sick of the attitude that there is no
>audience
for electronica in the US. There are more people listening to
>electronica
than bluegrass but somehow there are several bluegrass festivals
>every
fucking weekend somewhere. Promoters are just fucking lazy here.
>They'd
rather promote gangsta rap in the ghetto because there's much less
>leg work.
Promoting LX dj-ing means they'd have to figure out how to notify
>the
millions of people that have an Orb cd on their shelf and they don't
>have the
imagination or sense to know how. Maybe LX should find a new
>promotional
company. When Paul Oakenfold can dj in front of thousands in
>the desert
in the middle of the fucking day and LX can't even get an hour
>djing at
night in NYC you know something's wrong.
>
>It also
doesn't help that the tour isn't anounced until after it's started.
>What the
fuck is that? Most of the people that are Orb fans in this country
>can't take
a random day or two off work on short notice. The tour dates
>were
announced when? last week?
>
>Not that it
matters to me since none of my favorite acts will play here
>since the
radio stations are owned by the mega-corporations that have no
>interest on
marketing anything any more cutting edge than Creed or Britney
>Spears. But
any promoter that can't draw a crowd in NYC isn't worth a shit.
>Period.
>
>
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>
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>
>
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