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[manny@telerama.com]

Quoting Kelly Ashkettle <kellyashkettle at yahoo.com>:
>
> Maybe not exclusively g/i. It'd probably have to be
> goth/alternative/punk/indie/electroclash.

kind of like the Upstage could be if it was properly exploited as both a dance
club and a live concert venue


> Where is Mr. Smalls Theatre, again? I'd heard of it, but never went there.
> Isn't it hard to get to?
center of Millvale. the 500 kids (many of whom looked very goth to me, although
I know they were of course crossover numetal juggalo mallrats) who
went to see Mindless Indulgence found it very easily.

> > everyone else has packed it in because they can't pull off a rivethead's
> wet dream 300+
> > event in a club with industrial girders whose walls are painted jet black
> or whatever. is it
> > about the style or is it about the substance?
 Music includes style.

But most music isn't *primarily* style. In indie rock, for example, nobody cares
what a venue looks like, or what a person dresses like, beyond the occasional
band T-shirt and white belt, as long as there's a decent PA, a bathroom and a
place to smoke and drink. Same with jamrock. Those genres, and others, place
emphasis on the live experience, while neo-G/I (among other
post-rave-based genres) does not.

> I dunno, Manny. It sounds like some people miss their wet dreams.

they miss their wet dreams, and yet these same people participated actively in
the downfall of live music through the overemphasis on dance club nights over
the past few years. now they are reaping the fruit they sowed. the new kids
that came up during this dance era experienced much less live music than their
predecessors, and don't know much other than the numetal juggalo stuff. So
there is no new audience for G/I music (at least not in the States). So now the
audience that exists for it is smaller, and shows that still happen are more
akin to operations in the DIY mode.