Thats sounds like the mother of all music promotor fuck ups I reckon. Freestyler hah!

Wait wait.. wait...

WAIT...

Arcade Fire showed interest in coming here?

And they were shown the door?

...

Right. Someone is getting a punch in the nose.

you could become "Mystery Boy"?

Yes?

i heard from the word from another promoter and then had that word confirmed by one of the few universitys who did actually want the show... unfortunately not enough uni's would book it, so it got canned.

I cotacted their booking agent and unfortuntely, they now have no plans to come "down under" for 2006. So :( it will be sometime I'm afraid before they might come.

fuck, I hate being the bearer of bad news sometimes.

// you could become "Mystery Boy"?

nah, I'll only bring an nternational over if they're happy to play motueka on a tuesday night and hang in NZ for two weeks of more. I got a few internationals planned for next year...but, haha, nothing anywhere near the level of tha fire.

from what i've heard (but don't ask me - ask Jon_Jr) Victoria Uni was keen as mustard to get Arcade Fire, and the Dandy Warhols, and a couple of other fairly decent and *interesting* groups and had all but confirmed it, but the other universities didn't think they'd get a decent crowd in or something. . ??

The Bomfunk MC's are a fucking joke. No one who remembers who they are would be seen dead at the show..

New Zealand university culture is embarrassing. Music and Sport, and pretty much everything else.

Well apparently Auckland and Vic were sweet with Trans Am, but then the ones in the South Island weren't. Something about getting 8 people at a Dei Hamo gig they paid thousands for.
Personally I don't see how it relates, but I guess they're worried about making losses.
Orientation is looking pretty fucking lame right now.

I just about had to leave band practice early when I heard about this... so mad, SO SO MADDDDD. Blink, is there anyway you and Mystery Girl could make your powers combine and work some magic for 2006??? You know, if you're not busy or anything... ;)

yeah, I've heard Les savy fav in the pipelines..they finish in Oz on March 3rd..so timing is perfect. Fingers crossed eh.

scandinavia has a lot to answer for. .

yeah, though in the past there have been people who have passionately stood up for certain acts and convinced other controllers to buy particluar shows.

shit can happen if people want it hard enough. There are massive amounts of wicked international bands who would come to NZ for the money that orientation can pay. It takes a wee bit of effort, but its worth it.

From the looks of the orientation website, bomfunk mcs have been booked for the majority of the campuses.

Yeah, i heard about transam, which is ridiculous from the low fee i heard they were asking, haha, I didn't hear about Gomez though.

Nobody is trying to offend you bro. There are some really good cunts working orientation, just not enough balls from the other half of them and I'm still hurting over missing out on Weezer a couple of years back.

I think some orientation controllers underesitmate their auidence and think they are ALL dumb fuck, booze hags, when there are plenty of people who do actually want to see something of interest and not just kill their brain cells on tui.

and of course, you know, when i say "you", i don't mean "you", cause i can see from the bomfunks bookings, that your orientation passed on them.

Orientation festivals might ostensibly be for students, but anyone is entitled to go, so it's a bit rich to say that the "bleatings" of the non-student are of no consequence - you still take their money don't ya.
Also many of us are students.

So, aside from this odd policy of aiming things at students, possibilities existing to have Arcade Fire, The Dandy Warhols, Gomez, and Trans Am, and we have Bomfunk MCs? I feel like this is some sort of bad joke.

[Students have plenty of cash at orientation, because it's the start of the year. It may be the only time of the year, but especially the first-year students, who make up a large bulk of the audience of these orientation events, can afford it. When people are spending a couple hundred dollars in that week on alcohol (and no doubt there are stories far in excess of that), what's $40/$60/whatever to see an international band?]

Shihad and FFD, as good as they may or may not be, are not international acts. They are from NZ, we are in NZ. They are... national acts. Ta-da!

but wouldn't you consider an act who had one giant hit about 5 years ago and have since faded into obscurity to be more left-field then say a bands like Gomez/Arcade Fire/dandy Warhols?

Gomez who can sell out 1000 people in the main centres at $60 a pop (proven) as opposed to a band like the Bomfunks who if on their own tour, not supported by a university, would be more like 300-500 people at $25

//I think some orientation controllers underesitmate their auidence and think they are ALL dumb fuck, booze hags, when there are plenty of people who do actually want to see something of interest and not just kill their brain cells on tui.

cher!

the idea that I woulda been part of the (general) target audience of a bomfunk mc's (non)-event if I still went to uni only makes me (that little bit) glader that I decided to stop going.

come on bomfunk cancellation gang of four replacement. come on...

Who the fuck is going to pay to see Bomfunk MCs? Artistic merit aside, if I was an activities organiser, I'd see a teenage one hit wonder band from a few years ago as being a very risky choice.

I'd bet money that most students would much rather see a top tier NZ act like Shapeshifter, FFD, Shihad, the Bleeders et al than some novelty dance act from overseas. The prices are going to be much lower (except maybe for FFD?), so lower price for tickets (who are the focus of the whole exercise) and you're going to have full venues, ensuring at least break even end results, rather than blowing a wad of studen's money on a terrible gimmick act devoid of artistic merit. Bomfunk MCs should never have made it past a chuckling suggestion in the Orientation organisers' meeting. There isn't much lower that you could sink.

it's part of post-modern ironic cool to like such stuff, i believe

I think that is a generalisation because Orientations have descended into that. Of course you are only going to see butt-fuck boozed cunts at an 48may togo party, because thats the only people who will go, but If you have good bands playing, the people with taste (IMO) crawl out of the woodwork.

Not ALL students are out to fuck themselves up at orientation, that is a stereotype that orientation bookers have enforced by booking acts that encourage that kind of munter activity.

//According to the Party mix CDs, it is cool to like MC Hammer again.

OMIGOD! I would TOTALLY see MC Hammer if he came. At least he got popular enough to become hideously unpopular.

// I think this is what ahmetertegun is referring to above...

But did they say MC Hammer? No, so ha, ha. Be more specific. Be more cool. Be more condescending. Be more like me. Be more radical. Be more, talk less.

I just imagined someone having an actual epileptic fit when they heard the news, and frankly, it would be justified. Quite a full on reaction though. Maybe the most appropriate would be to instantly vomit on the floor upon hearing the news.