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Re: Band Press (was Anthony Spurgin) Long!

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From: Nigel Horne <njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 21 July 1998 18:16
Subject: Re: Band Press (was Anthony Spurgin) Long!


>You do know that when the list got really going a couple of years ago
>I contacted the BB. They weren't interested - saying they know nothing
>about the Internet and that's that.

>You remember of course the difference
>in attitude between them and BBW over the Cyber Cafe meeting/broadcast a
>couple of years ago.

No - I wasn't on the list then.  I'm sure we can all guess the answer, but
do tell us the details!
>
>I've all but given up trying to work with the BB. I still buy it - but only
>for the adverts in the back. Even they are becoming irrelavant as we run
our
>own vacancies page and concerts are often advertised here.

I'm afraid I gave up the Bandsman a long time ago.  As Andy Wooler has
intimated in another posting, I too rather got the impression that it waited
for the news to come to it, rather than doing what journalists are supposed
to do and go out and find the stories.  I also got tired of the endless
uncritical reviews of concerts and recordings, in which, apparently, no band
ever played anything less than brilliantly!!  (...a most pleasing
performance... you know the sort of thing).  Contrast that with the review
of Whistle Down The Wind in David Lancaster's recent posting.  No fear or
favour there.  That's the problem with the band press in general, I think -
everyone knows everyone and doesn't want to upset them.  It's all too
incestuous - a musical branch of the Mutual Appreciation Society.

Brass Band World magazine is a bit better, but even it shies away from the
hard stories people want to read.  The report some time ago on McCann's
departure from Britannia left me none the wiser on the real reasons behind
his going.  And as I mentioned in an earlier posting after the European
Championships, I had to rely on this list to discover what BBW meant when it
talked coyly of unacceptable behaviour on the part of certain bandsmen.  It
was, apparently, a drinking contest.  So what?  Why not print it?

Cheers

Alec

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Alec Gallagher
alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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