Giving the Music Back to the Kids
The music scene doesn’t just start and stop in London. Whilst V festival has an off shoot up north (somewhere), most of the festivals still tend to be found relatively close to London. Obviously so a bunch of horrific sloanes can have a ‘festival experience’ and complain at high volume about the mud/people/the dust/warm booze (delete as applicable). Stay at home and watch it on BBC3 instead, please!
Anyway in Scotland they tend to get on and do there own thing and have the excellent T in the Park and also a less well known affair called Triptych which has showcased some of the worlds best alternative, creative and avant garde music which sadly comes to an end this year.
Out with the old, in with the new though as Tennent’s, the festivals organisers, have hit upon replacing it with Tennent’s Mutual which will take place in Oct and Nov 2008.
So far fairly so what. That is until you learn what makes Tennent’s Mutual something really quite interesting, it allows everyday people to be involved with putting on the festival. You have to sign up before 30th June, and starts with a start up fund of £150,000, and members then can vote, nominate, debate who the acts should be, which venues & decide ticket prices!
Will be interesting to see how the event gains momentum but with something that brings the passion out in everyone it can’t fail to be a success I think and really harnesses the community aspect of the internet as well as truly democratising it
Could initiatives like this be the start of the next facebook or myspace?