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[bluestreak]

I'd love to know who these 'experts' are.

Me too.

 

[DUMBO.66]

hmm, Rage Against the Machine are playing leeds and reading this weekend, prehaps an after concert in Wiltshire?

 

[rollinder]

doesnt seem likely, according to their website the festivals been cancelled

good piece from John Earls on teletext
http://www.teletext.co.uk/planetsou...f43617d78f4087b9/The+danger+of+bands+ban.aspx

...On the surface, Moonfest organisers had done enough to ensure the crowd's safety. Only 200 tickets had been sold for the festival, so 20 stewards would surely be ample for such a small crowd.
Moonfest has now been cancelled, with promoters unable to afford the extra £75,000 security costs police wanted.

It's not as if Babyshambles fans - to generalise, yer average easygoing indie kids - have a reputation for causing the carnage Wiltshire police imagine.

If police can ban such an innocuous act from a festival, who knows what police could justify if it was a band whose fans really do love moshpit mayhem? Metal and punk gigs could suddenly face having the clock go back to the days when The Sex Pistols tours were banned.

Hopefully, Ch Supt Kirby's ban will be a one-off action of eccentric policing.

The law has been in place for five years, with no threats before.
But this could feasibly be the start of a clampdown gigs not seen since raves were banned under the Criminal Justice Act of the early '90s. Either bands may be banned or prohibitive security costs enforced. And guess who'd pay the extra costs of those? Ticket buyers...

 

[suburbia]

*facepalm*

Where the fuck do we live, small town USA c.1957?

I grew up mostly in Westbury. In 21 years I've never heard of any attempt to hold this kind of there there, so I call NIMBYism

That almost did for the Stokes Bay Festival down here a couple of weeks ago as well

 

[BassJunkie]

It's not that long ago it was 'repetitive beats' that were demonised, not it's almost like it's their non-repetitive nature that's being demonised.

 

[albionism]

It reads like something one would have seen on The Day Today or Brass Eye..Seriously bad stuff indeed.