FREE CD: Virtual Festivals Compilation

crikey, i got this in the post at least 2 months ago. good stuff it is too.

not a bad track on it.

We picked the trax

Explain please " Selling Out " is a much used and abused term. If you are going to use it, be a little bit more detailed in your accusation. For that, after all, is what it is.

I think the word is... glib.

er, virtualfestivals are giving away free cds, i'm not too sure how that is selling out. we've just pointed people in the direction of the cd.
nuff nonsense.

It's a fuckin free cd, we're not selling anything. You don't pay to use VirtualFestivals.com so how the fuck are we selling out?

YOu people coin a phrase and use it regardless of context or lack of meaning. Change the fucking record, man.

A

Didn't quite finish my rant. I was going to say... after you've spoken to the person, see if they look at you like you're mad... if they haven't already walked off to find someone more interesting to talk to.

Grrr. I'm a peaceful guy, but snobbery in music always gets to me.

Incidentally, although I'm taking the side of DiS on this one, I'd like to add that Carling tastes like piss.

Carling is fucking awful, it's true.

Unlike Euro events where the sponsors make an effort to actually put something into the events they sponsor beyond a few crumpled fivers, Carling could not care less about music and literally just see it as one big - and immensely successful - branding exercise. It's a sentiment shared even by Mean Fiddler.

Why do you think the 'feel' of everything they are involved in - from the Reading Festival thru to the all new Carling Islington Bar Academy - carries the same empty feeling and the same line in shit £3.10 per can 'beer'?

Carling get their advertising every time the festival is mentioned. The PRs insist that when Reading or Leeds Fests are referred to, they are done with their full names 'The Cxxxxxx Reading and Leeds Festivals'.

Thus, they get enough mentions, and whether or not a free cd has that branding on really makes no difference to anyone who has an interest in the songs on it.

One normally find that anyone claiming to be highly moralled is just a lot more hyprocritical than anyone else. The NME is fucking owned by AOL/Time Warner (the same people who run Linkin Park inc. etc) - you still buy it. Pizza Hut is owned by Pepsi people - you still bash the buffet on hangover Wednesdays.

Selling out is only an issue if the brand associations somehow diminish or corrupt what you started out to do. The nature of festivals all being sponsored means that big firms cannot be avoided.

DiS.

I'm lovin' it!

I got one of the free CDs ages ago, incidentally.

The problem with Carling is not only that it tastes of piss, but that you have no choice but to drink it at events they sponsor (if lager is your drink of choice). Makes Reading Festival a lot less enjoyable than it could be. And when you think of the amount of money they must make at Reading, the least they could do would be to invest a few quid in making the site more bearable... I say this as a festival veteran, not someone who's squeamish of a bit of mud. The site this year was the worst it has ever been and nobody seemed to care.

Buy cans of stella from outside, hide them in your socks when you go into the arena - voila! no need to drink pissy carling. this technique works with your own choice of drink, not just with stella.

the longer tha socks, the more cans. of course, you'll need relatively baggy trousers, but I found some simple levis did the trick for three days straight (and, indeed, four years straight).

... or your eventual fall down...

MR Rauf...

found that Tomahawk CD, btw...

ah, the joke continues...

You could've done a better shagging job if you "picked the trax" then. Even with the dogshit that clogged up much of the stages at this year's Reading/Leeds. Wouldn't waste my time on it even as a free beermat, myself...

dunno what was up with the site, i'll try again now (ilive in stourbridge, that comes under dudley these days)...