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Originally Posted by freakonaleash
You are basing this premise on what? Statistics or wild hunches that give you carte blanche to lay into the folk in Dundee who are actually trying to do something good?
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I'm basing it on having been in dozens and dozens of cities and towns, the length and breadth of the UK, playing shows and seeing posters in countless venues. I'm also basing it on having been to many European cities, as well as cities in the US and Canada.
When I first moved to Dundee in '97 I was amused and surprised to see posters with lengthy descriptions of bands on them, something I'd never seen before in all my years in the Birmingham music scene. When I would go through to Glasgow, a venue like the 13th Note would be utterly lacking in posters matching the 'Dundee style', it's walls being crammed with creative and exciting work. Wandering around Montréal I would see a city completely immersed in the style of artists like Seripop.
Portland, Oregon, a city filled with people in bands or running labels/club nights, a city utterly plastered with gig posters, not one that I saw described the bands playing, or likened them to anyone else.
Years of looking at poster on
GigPosters.com - gig posters, flyers and handbills from around the world!, 80,000 posters on there now - the most 'Dundee' like ones are often from....er....shows in Dundee.
People in Dundee might be trying to do something good by putting on gigs, but often their posters of utterly horrible.