I hope the Fall fans who complained loudly about the 30£ admission charge to our full and rich one day event on the Fall a few years ago.........will be equally annoyed by the 10£ per session or 65£ a day/ 140£ for the whole event charge for attending Louder than Words, ironically enough fueled by a similar anti-academic agenda to our critics (ie rock journos, populist writers and former band members only barring one or two notable exceptions). The title of the one session addressing academic writing on music is very telling and the answer a foregone conclusion: have academics killed rock and roll? And there was I thinking it was done at the hands of bad journalists with limited ideas, dissimulating their real role as an extension of marketing for a failing music industry.....paraphrasing Deleuze (as a pretentious academic) if rock music dies/has died it will be by assassination, and we know by who......
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 12:43:24 +0000