Went to our first 'indoor event last night'. It was supposed to be a celebration of music produced by Strawberry studios in Stockport, so bands from the 70's and 80's.
It didn't start well. The compare was on for ages prattling on, then they got some obscure artist from the 70's who has recorded an album no-body had heard of (she was in her 70's) and she then went on to talk about her 'recording experience'. Then, "oh I've re-released my single". We were then subjected to what I can describe as a very poor power point whilst listening to her song that was her original one, with her speaking at the end. Blooming terrible. She then went on about how terrible Sheffield and Manchester now was (50 years later) and that you all have to live in high rise flats ? She was from Suffolk. We were like, erm no, we all have gardens and nice houses, no-one lives in the hi-rises as they are owned by Chinese Investment companies and you need £3k per month for a 1 bed apartment. WTF - she was so out of touch. Manchester was a real 'shoot' hole 50 years ago, it's actually quite nice if you took a walk round.
We finally got some local young bands playing a mix of their own music and classics, but. each band was given two or three songs, then had to re-set for the next. So on comes the compare prattling on again. This went on all evening. If they had just had two sets of instruments up, then they could have given the youngsters more air time. It was that bad, about 20% left at the interval. Way too much talking, not enough music.
