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Jade Backs Venues Campaign
My campaign to highlight music friendly venues has received the backing of Echo music writer Jade Wright, who is publicising the initiative on her blog.
The objective is to come up with a list of music friendly venues, and so encourage a DIY approach to getting gigs - showing musicians where they can stage their own gigs without unfair room hire charges from venues.
If we all used these muso friendly venues, it would be a huge challenge to the standard venues - and I don't see how those who charge us for the privilege of bringing them customers could continue to get away with it. The closed shop would be broken!
As ever with anything supporting local grassroots music, the excellent Jade Wright has happily volunteered to use her blog to help collate this information. The result will be a free online directory of musician friendly venues.
I'm not surprised that Jade has come to our aid. She is a genuine champion of local music, and her philosophy is very much geared towards a DIY approach to music where the power is with the ordinary musician.
Since Jade arrived at the Echo, she has been an activist for the local music scene, not merely a journalist.
When she runs out of space within the paper itself, she continues to champion the local scene online through her Myspace page and her music blog. But even within the paper there are many innovations that turn the spotlight on local up and coming acts. Such as the Whats On My Ipod feature, or the Unsigned Band of the Week.
Even when the Mathew Street Festival was dead in the water, who was the first on the telephone trying her utmost to save it? Jade. A journalist's job is to merely report these things, but Jade always goes one stop further.
As such, I'm glad that Jade has decided to give her support to this idea. We're lucky to have a local music journalist who goes so far beyond the call of duty to promote local music.
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I agree, entirely, with every thing you have written here. x
Posted by
acoustic dream |
Saturday, September 22, 2007
I utterly agree. Jades contribution to local music is unparalleled. It came to my attention recently that support like hers isnt the norm across the countrys regional papers as I had presumed. This makes her championing all the more special.
Posted by
Lee |
Saturday, September 22, 2007
I couldn't agree more mate.
I think it's really important that we have someone promoting the local music scene, and in the time since she's taken over the Echo has changed beyond recognition.
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Mike |
Saturday, September 22, 2007