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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