Gb
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Post by Gb on May 30, 2006 14:58:28 GMT 10
so the name now must be
cumijf
crown umbria melbourne international jazz festival
how are they going to fit that across their little promo cars...?
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sammo
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Post by sammo on May 31, 2006 2:08:31 GMT 10
My biggest issue with the MIJF was the way they programmed. An hour and half of Scofield/Swallow/Stewart followed by and hour and a half of WSQ? My brain was fried. Forget the double billing.
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Post by sophie on May 31, 2006 10:05:42 GMT 10
I think that anybody who attended the awards the other night left depressed and incredulous about what a strange and el crappo evening it was...atleast one could get a little inebriated, the free wine being the only salvation from Tracy Bartram's vile, vile narrative.
Whoever booked her should be shot, and should apologise to John Poche for being made fun of whislt he himself lies in hospital...
gross gross gross (but well done to aaron, jamie and paul)
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Post by timothystevens on May 31, 2006 10:09:12 GMT 10
Had she found out how to pronounce his name? He was "John Potchy" at the shortlist announcements.
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Gb
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Post by Gb on May 31, 2006 14:59:26 GMT 10
how'd you get an invite soph?
and when did you get back?
maybe wrong soph?
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Post by sophie on May 31, 2006 16:38:56 GMT 10
yo mister gid...snuck in of course. i got back a week a go if i remember correctly (amongst the haze of jetlag)...
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Post by timothystevens on May 31, 2006 18:40:18 GMT 10
Re the invite, I believe the ceremony was actually free for musicians. I didn't know this until the day of the event, and, well, by then I had something else on. (Jeans and a shirt — you know.) I don't think it was tremendously well put across.
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Post by giannim on May 31, 2006 20:36:38 GMT 10
Not free Tim,musos had to pay for dinner (but all 'jazz' musos could buy tickets)
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Post by timothystevens on May 31, 2006 22:05:01 GMT 10
What I heard was that the awards were free but dinner was subsidised to some extent. Perhaps that was wrong but obviously it made no difference to me; I'd sooner have watched a Pay-TV re-run of the complete Everybody Endures Raymond.
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Post by shaggaz on May 31, 2006 23:25:38 GMT 10
or australian idle
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Post by glean on Jun 1, 2006 0:44:25 GMT 10
why is this little festival so very important to all of you ? why do you care so much? aren't there more important things to complain about , like the state of East Timor or Iraq or 1 million other more important injustices hapenning in our world today?
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Post by plunk on Jun 1, 2006 13:21:21 GMT 10
why is this little festival so very important to all of you ? why do you care so much? aren't there more important things to complain about , like the state of East Timor or Iraq or 1 million other more important injustices hapenning in our world today?
....and theres a million other sites to go to for that baby...
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Post by mim on Jun 1, 2006 14:38:02 GMT 10
yes, why have a jazz forum at all?  Glen, what makes you think we don't complain about those things on other forums, or verbally? There's never a shortage of things to complain about, you could just keep going and going and going and going and going...... |
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Post by glean on Jun 1, 2006 14:41:29 GMT 10
yeah and some of you do seem to keep going and going and going on about the same thing...... gets a bit boring and seems realy negative and useless waste of time to me
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Post by mim on Jun 1, 2006 14:46:20 GMT 10
But I think the fact that some of these same people are running and/or being involved in the fringe (which as I understand it is a better festival in many ways?) shows that people aren't just complaining, they are finding their own solutions. Bravo.
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