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Disappointing crowd for night of rock

Posted on October 7, 2008, 12:12pm

Channel Events appears set to bring more concert tours to the region, despite only a few hundred people turning out for the night of rock at the Mount Gambier Showgrounds on Friday.

Mount Gambier event spokesperson Sharon Phelan said numbers were disappointing on the night after a large effort was put into bringing the line-up of The Screaming Jets, Butterfly Effect, Kevin Borich and Lawless Breed to the region.

“It was a learning experience and we may have to do things differently next time, but the bands played great and were fantastic, including the local act Blame Johnny — it didn’t stop them putting on a great show,” she said.

Ms Phelan said a smaller venue may be used for future shows, but more tours with different line-ups were likely to be planned.

“It is a matter of sitting down and assessing everything and looking at ways to plan differently next time,” she said.

“Channel Events had a really good try at it and it is a matter of bouncing back now, which they are ready to do.”

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2 Responses to “Disappointing crowd for night of rock”

  1. Rob on October 8th, 2008 2:38 pm 1

    Personally, I’m not surprised. Rock is dead, a leftover from last century. It started in the 1950’s, and endured for about 40 or 50 years, but all over the world people are deciding to put rock into the history books. There will always be a ‘pub rock’ type element in society, but it began to suffer it’s inevitable demise in the late 80’s when electro, house, and hip-hop took over peoples preferences in the UK and USA.
    Australia is always a little behind where these things are concerned. Just go clubbing in the cities, see what people are doing today. The pub rock thing just doesn’t even exist there anymore, it’s only a suburban or rural thing today. The clubs are pumping out more alluring sounds, and that’s what’s happening. Really, rock is for your parents and your uncles and aunts. Club beats rule the world, and it’s beginning to filter into the area. Ask the kids what they like. I can guarantee you it will not be rock these days. It’s hard-trance, psytrance, hip hop, electro, deep house.

  2. Pyrrho on October 8th, 2008 3:21 pm 2

    That’s as maybe Rob. Mount Gambier has a small population, thus the chances of not filling a venue are much greater.
    As for your verdict that “Rock is dead”, well, I’m guessing that you might only go to the clubs that play what you like, and if you don’t like “rock” (whatever that is) then I’m tipping that you ‘aint seeing a lot of it.
    Let me assure you, Rock certainly isn’t dead. Nor is jazz, classical, folk or any other genre, regardless of what century you might think they expired.

    All that aside, it was a fairly uninspiring line up.