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[venta]

From the Whitby Gazette...

Whitby Goth Weekend in danger

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Comments

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I have to admit to a deal of difficulty giving a bugger. In that I rather like pottering about the place, drinking beer and seeing people. However, I'm not keen to have what's become a (more or less accidentally) proper week's holiday held to ransom by the combination of Scarborough Borough wanting to get at the gold inside the goose and the promoters appearing not to be able to learn from past experiences.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, I see what you're saying. Sadly, without an 'event' I'm not sure whether the same people would all manage to get their arses there on the same weekend.

If everyone managed to continue turning up in the right place at the right time, I think I'd probably be happy enough with that.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Apparently Sam Hoyle (Jo's ex) has taken over the Shambles this Whitby too, so no DV8/Other Side. Chances are he'll try to run that into the ground and spoil it for everyone too.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Were it about this time last year, and were it my toy, I'd have put together a brochure of pictures of cheery gothics and cuttings from the paper demonstrating how much money the local area makes, and shopped it around half a dozen sleepy seaside towns.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ooer. Didn't that belong to bloke-what-runs-darkmarket-the-jet-shop?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I meant taken it over as a venue for Whitby, not bought it! Even with the money he's creaming in from the Leisure Centre and Rifle Club markets, I don't think he can afford to buy a whole pub/retail complex.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Next year - Leigh-on-Sea goth festival.

Doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?

[bitbat.livejournal.com]

Do we actually know that this is the reason that the other Side is not running this October? I imagined that Mr DV8 might need time to regroup a little after the rather extravagant recent York festival and have chosen to sit this one out, but maybe I'm wrong and you know otherwise.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[Shrug]

People beetle off to Camber Sands and/or Minehead (My memories of Minehead are good, but we weren't staying in the barbed-wire-fenced Butlins) for ATP/Bangface/Marillion weekenders.

And, if one wanders about Whitby and looks at the posters, the gothic weekend is just another theme thing that goes in between the Soul/Folk/Forties/Sixies events.

I think at the moment we're in frog-boiling (goth boiling?) territory. How much more faff are people going to put up with before they go 'Oh, the hell with it' and buck the social network effect? (enough of my friends are there, so...)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Goth boiling?

Genius.

Let's organise a national goth boiling. In Clacton.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

'And now, live from the Mayfair Rooms, Clacton, it's international pro-celebrity goth boiling with your host, Derek Acorah!'

[zotz]

Saw Bellowhead this weekend. Looked for videos of their performance, found this, thought of you.

They were very very good. I can't find any footage of them at all that's anything like as lively as they actually were.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I accidentally saw Bellowhead's first gig at the Oxford folk festival, quite some years ago. They were pretty good then, but I've never managed to catch them since.

I heard good things about them at Truck, too. Hmmm... Shepherds Bush in November, you say...

[zotz]

Pretty neat accident, that.

They'll be playing a small venue in Edinburgh around then, and I certainly intend to be there. They'll have another album out by then. The stuff they said was off it sounded suitably fine.