Thing of the Day
PUNK ROCK MY ARSE!
July
30th 2011
One of the more hideous venues in London is the appallingly
named Punk, a notoriously overpriced pit that treats bands (and
audiences) rather badly (though really, you bands should know better
than to ever play the damn place, why any of you ever do is a little
beyond our comprehension). Probably just about as far away from the
idea of what punk was, is and should continue to be…
So they booked Quilla
Constance, and then they messed Quilla around. So Quilla
played anyway, outside, as a protest…
Here’s what it says alongside the footage of Quilla playing in the
street outside ‘Punk’ on July 29th:
“Quilla Constance's hilarious reposte to the two-timing double booking
pay to play pseudo-punk so-called 'PUNK Soho' club attracted an
appreciative audience off the street on June 29th 2011. The
club's [at best] incompetent [at worst] greedy booking clerk had seen
fit to cancel a regular club night in favour of a 'corporate event'
leaving Quilla Constance badly out of pocket and saddled with 5,000
flyers, poster and PR bills. The farcical offer of a gig the
week before 'plus a few free drinks' enraged Constance but is typical
of the treatment dished out to performers by music clubs.
As it happened, Quilla played the gig on the scheduled date
and at the allotted time ..... only OUTSIDE the club, succeeding in
playing her set to a flashmob of supporters and passers-by. A
film crew captured Quilla's guerilla action, the dumbfounded door staff
and bemused expressions of the startled corporate guests whilst
paparazzi clicked and chuckled thoughout a rocking 24 minute set”.
You can catch Quilla Constance on the main stage at the Hackney Wicked
Festival this Saturday
hackneywickedfestival.co.uk
www.quillaconstance.com
Remember now, you should never, ever
pay to play, and that includes forced ticket buys and all the other
ways they try to wrap it up, if you do so then you become part of a
once again growing problem… These pay to play gigs are never any good,
the venues and the gigs are never any good, and even having your name
on one of these bills is just sending the wrong signals to those whose
attentions you’re trying to attract… there’s not a single
thing to be gained from these kind of gigs. There are PLENTY
of decent promotors and venues out there if you look around.
