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Womad - must be good value for money because......
Posted by Commoner on 28 July 2008 - 3:25pm.
Womad Festival, organisers have said. "Every artist that you can think of is performing at Womad - and a lot you could never think of." Wow, that is a big claim or is it lazy BBC Website editing? Is it just me who thinks the BBC, for all its size has crap music journalism on its news website...
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BBC music journalism is often poor..
...but to be fair to the beeb, this sounds like an over-excited Womad person, possibly with English not their first language.
Possibly true
But are you really suggesting the Wiltshire locals recruited as Stewards may not have English as a first language? Or are you hinting at them there Somerset people drifting over the border?
Anyhow, what does it mean for interviewees to have talked to the 'BBC News website". Is that web techys or web journalists? Or some fine titled 'Content Management Editors'?
It's a strange claim
for a story about the fact that not all the acts have been able to get visas and thus are unable to appear...
I like WOMAD. It's chilled out while genuinely exciting to be thrown into a musical environment in which I have to go outside my safety zone. I don't pretend to be knowlegeable about world music, so I have to judge things purely on like (by which I mean that not knowing anything about the Peruvian Nose Flautist scene, I am unable to say whether PNF artist A is a blatant rip off of PNF artist B, therefore my reaction is unbiased in the sense of only having to do with like, indifferent or not like).
I do, however, have a fear that somewhere in South America there's a version of WOMAD where Chas and Dave are being held up as 'authentic' English music...
Dear FraserM
Is that a new subject thread? What is 'Authentic English Music'? I dare you....
Ha!
'Coming over here, taking our melodies...'
I can see it going all Daily Mail Island just thinking about it.
World Music?
World music? Do you want Damon Albarn to come round your house and beat you up, cos he will, given his following reaction when Lauren Larverne dared to speak those two words on last weeks Culture Show:
Laverne: "I always find world music such a strange..."
Albarn: (interupts by holding his hand in front of face in a silencing gesture) "Don't say that. Don't say that. But don't say it. Don't even talk about it. Because that immeadiately suggests that that was another world to our world."
Laverne: (dances around the seated Albarn, flicking V signs and pulling stupid faces) "World Music, World Music, Woooorrrlld Mooosic-ah!!! Give me a W, give me an O...."
(Actually, I made that last bit up. In fact, she meekly said she would never say it again, and Albarn smiled smugly at his bullying victory. The bastard.)
Yes - I saw that too...
I wished Lauren would have slapped him roughly around his, oh so smug Mockney cheeks, and given him a Kenickie CD to listen to as penance.
Did he really?
What a deeply tedious toss-face.
If only he had the deceny
to articulate his frustration with the phrase and enlighten people about its limitations. I agree with Albarn but cant agree with his smug and patronising manner..
Damon Albarn
Music's Ken Livingston. He may have a very good point but he ruins it with his slimey hectoring. Ms Laverne is pretty good on the whole. Its nice to have someone on an arts programme who has shown a bit of talent (Don't Falter with Ms Laverne is top drawer pop) and who seems genuinely interested. Agreed that the Wire interview was poor but at least she was trying to be different (and it did get the marvellous response of "F**k the casual viewer" which suggest's it wasn't in vain.
Albarn - you're a right on semantic bully. Stop it.
Fabulous!
If Jelly Roll Morton, Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers and the Doctors of jazz are all playing, as I can think of them, and it says they will be, sign me up for tickets now.
GREAT!
I wish I'd seen the Beatles perform live in around 1968. They didn't, and 2 of them are dead, but I can think of it.
How much are WOMAD tickets again?
Blur?
Haven't all the members left Shorpe* now. Certainly that cheese seller has.
(*Scunthorpe without the......)
More Exageration
And never questioned ? it goes on and on !!!!
Flying the flag for hackery
At least the BBC website remains faithful to its principles by trotting out all the hackneyed favourites. I was greatly comforted to see in today's coverage that Regina Spektor is still described as "quirky New Yorker".
If you want to count on Amy being "troubled", then the Beeb site never disappoints.
And as for the sport site...
OK, I bookmark the BBC sport website, and find it very valuable; however, some of the writing is so cliched that it's in the realm of self-parody. In tennis, the top seed invariably "crashes out" of the tournament, in football the third goal is always "drilled home," and so on.