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Post by SuperTashaWeiner on Jun 7, 2005 5:13:35 GMT -5
Saturday 23rd July 2005 1pm - 10pm • Finsbury Park • London Do Me Bad Things are playing there but beware there are also alot of really bad bands with brand new amps playing there i mean it - like girls aloud *shivers* but still do me bad things rock it was on a facepost-party depression.com email i got. i never go on that thing much now but i thought i'd check it Its like a big gay out or something www.biggayout.com/well thought i'd tell ya, im not sure if it costs loads - it might do........ |
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Post by Catherine on Jun 7, 2005 11:22:02 GMT -5
Do Me Bad Things are playing there but beware there are also alot of really bad bands with brand new amps playing there i mean it - like girls aloud *shivers* but still do me bad things rock I see what you mean! |
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Post by Ashleigh on Jun 7, 2005 14:20:06 GMT -5
big gay out, tehe.
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Post by SuperTashaWeiner on Jun 8, 2005 10:12:37 GMT -5
lol yea thats why i had to post it really so i could say Big gay out - it just has a ring to it - no pun intended there
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Post by Catherine on Jun 8, 2005 13:53:04 GMT -5
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Post by Jemma on Jun 10, 2005 12:09:35 GMT -5
I wouldn't want to go even if I could...apart from the fact that its myspace sponsored I just think the whole gay theme is a bit random really...I am however going to see DMBT at the Wireless festival with Supergrass and Rufus Wainwright. I LOVE Rufus...
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Post by SuperTashaWeiner on Jun 12, 2005 16:06:34 GMT -5
awesome!
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Post by ianatmustdestroy on Jun 13, 2005 4:11:10 GMT -5
im not sure if it costs loads - it might do........ it's £28... say's so in big numbers at the top. I wouldn't want to go even if I could...apart from the fact that its myspace sponsored I just think the whole gay theme is a bit random really...  ? 'the whole gay *theme* is a bit random really' ?? what on earth does that mean? it's a gay festival (the clue's in the name). it used to be part of the Pride rally and now its an event in its own right. gay folks like music too. also, 'random'... ran·dom - adj.
Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objectiveonce something has a theme, it can no longer be random. there's a strange thing that's happened over the past couple of years where the word 'random' is used entirely out of context and 100% incorrectly. it really should stop. no wonder this country's going down the pan. bad grammar, hoodies and Big Brother. |
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Post by Jemma on Jun 13, 2005 6:23:24 GMT -5
Random as in I don't understand the meaning behind why there have to be gay festivals...I just don't understand the idea of gay and straight people celebrating the fact that homophobia isn't as common as it used to be, it just seems pointless.
To me it just seems as pointful to have a "divorce festival" because that has become more socially acceptable as well.
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Post by ianatmustdestroy on Jun 13, 2005 7:22:24 GMT -5
Random as in I don't understand the meaning behind why there have to be gay festivals...I just don't understand the idea of gay and straight people celebrating the fact that homophobia isn't as common as it used to be, it just seems pointless. To me it just seems as pointful to have a "divorce festival" because that has become more socially acceptable as well. i don't see your point at all. think of it this way... why SHOULDN'T there be a 'gay' festival? it's a community celebration. nobody complains that Reading or Glastonbury are festivals pretty much dedicated entirely to the enjoyment of the white upper middle-class indie-rock youth element of the nation, so why complain that there's a festival run by gay people for gay people? and, yes, whilst homophobia 'isn't as common as it used to be' (at least not openly, which in a way is far mroe worrying), it's still there and still worth fighting against. (see the case currently happening of Westminser council trying to get gay bars / club / shops - most famously the Admiral Duncan on Old Compton St - to remove the rainbow flags from outside. absolutely NO basis for it other than trying to downplay the 'gayness' of Soho... sickening homophobia). and i'm afraid 'random' still ain't the right word  x |
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Post by SuperTashaWeiner on Jun 13, 2005 10:02:15 GMT -5
i think a gay festival would be fun, be like a gd atmosphere anyway
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Post by Jemma on Jun 13, 2005 10:16:52 GMT -5
I just think that the whole Big Gay Out festival is just so commercial- you don't get any other anti-whatever festivals that are so publicised. And the loads of people just go to see a band play.
Like there's an annual vegan festival in Birmingham and generally, the only people that know about it are the ones that actually care for what its about. The people that it has no interest to obviously stay out of it. But then say a certain band played there, people would go to see them and not for the real cause- and that's what I mean.
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Post by ianatmustdestroy on Jun 13, 2005 12:41:17 GMT -5
I just think that the whole Big Gay Out festival is just so commercial- you don't get any other anti-whatever festivals that are so publicised. And the loads of people just go to see a band play. Like there's an annual vegan festival in Birmingham and generally, the only people that know about it are the ones that actually care for what its about. The people that it has no interest to obviously stay out of it. But then say a certain band played there, people would go to see them and not for the real cause- and that's what I mean. errr.. i don't know where to start with this... firstly, the Gay Pride rally is hardly the same as an 'anti-whatever' festival. like i said, it's a celebration by the gay community. regardless of what some folks would like to believe, being gay isn't a 'choice' like having a certain political belief or being anti-vivisection whatever... people ARE gay, and for many years that was seen as something wrong or to be ashamed of... so now that the world has - for the larger part - accepted that gay people are just the same as anyone else, why should there not be a celebration of their culture the same as we have the Notting Hill Carnival as a celebration of West Indian culture etc etc?? (after all, mainstream culture is more than happy to take from gay culture often enough). and so what if people go to an event like Big Gay Out simply to see a certain band?? does it diminish the enjoyment of a show purely because its part of a gay festival rather than in a grotty venue with warm Carling in a paper cup?? surely that's also the point of these sort of events, to open people's eyes and let them realise that just because they're not gay doesn't mean that gay culture is something alien or closed off to them. if folks have got their £28, then they're invited to the post-party depression... which is how things should be pretty much. that said, if someone wants to see Do Me Bad Things (or any of the other bands with brand new amps on the bill) but doesn't want to go because it's a 'gay' event, then i pity them and their narrow mind... really i do. |
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