Oh, no! Drama! Run and hide...

[midnightscott]

If you haven't already seen this week's edition of The City Paper, you've managed to miss one of the leading topics of gothic scene gossip/hysteria in quite a while. It contains two pretty decent pics of me (particularly considering how lousy I felt that evening, lol) and an amusing article about the Midnight/SB competition that has most people I'

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[meowremix3804]

Music scenes regularly have competing nights, why is this such a huge deal, and for what mostly seems like promoters, in the goth community?

Having multiple choices for the evening keeps stagnation from setting in, supplies a healthy competition that keeps promoters from getting lazy, offers up attendees a little choice in music and demographics, and is a signifier of a scene that's still alive and kicking. If there aren't enough attendees, don't blame your competition, blame yourself. Promote like hell, be innovative and get your attendees in a manner that's more respectable than slinging dirt at each other in a local newspaper.

Personally, as a person that has a hand in several of the local music scenes, all that article did was make me want to support both of the parties a bit less. I can still get my fix by supporting Alchemy events or Exposure, and check out a punk or edm show/event on Saturdays.

[midnightscott]

Quick reply, since I need to get some sleep if I'm going to be able to run my event tonight, lol: (1) Midnight didn't feed this story to TCP, and aside from occasional muttering, really hadn't engaged in any serious public negativity before whoever (guess) did. (2) My suspicion is that, with goth scene numbers down virtually everywhere locally (even to some extent at Midnight) due to the season and economy, somebody decided that pitching this to the press would be a good p.r. strategy. I spent more than half an hour with TCP's reporter, part of it discussing other local events, etc. But the original scenario for the story someone (ahem) had suggested to them prevailed.

[meowremix3804]

From what I understand, Amanda Hess typically goes after the stories, not the reverse. Or have you not been following her writing and the spree of drama over her articles thus far?

[propopdan]

Emily, your comments remind me of this photo: http://people.freebsd.org/~trhodes/patches/MSMario.jpg

[xspookykittyx]

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