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10 avril Keep Your Opinions To Yourself, HurleySo wrote one user in response to my recent piece about old bands reforming. In fact, the full message read:
"What's it got to do with this James Hurley guy if bands decide to come out of retirement? They can do what they want!!! Keep your opinions to yourself Hurley, no-one wants to hear them."
Keep my opinions to myself? I'd be a bit buggered in my job if I did that. And anyway, it's all about getting a bit of healthy debate going, something which wasn't in short supply last month. In fact, another user was so outraged by my suggestion that The Police should stay retired that he phoned my boss from Malaysia to express his displeasure.
Now that's real committment to getting me sacked.
The question of whether the smoking ban will ruin gigs produced some interesting feedback.
Perhaps the most persuasive argument came from an Australian user, who wrote:
I am a singer and musician from Australia living and performing in London. When I first arrived in London 5 years ago I was excited by all the live music venues and job opportunities. I started performing in bars,clubs,restaurants,casino's and hotels four nights a week. I would come home stinking of smoke, even my guitar started to smell of smoke. Then I developed a recurring cough that resulted in a complete loss of voice. I couldn't even speak for 3 months. I went to the doctor and when he looked at my vocal chords he said they were as dry as a piece of charcoal. I also started to develop asthma and directly after a gig I would come home with a headache, eye irritation and nasal the sinus congestion. I had to stop working in a professional I had spent my whole life studing for. So for one year I stopped singing in smoking venues and also I stopped going to smoking restaurants and bars, which ofcourse means I had no job and no social life basically. I have not had one sick day since. My cough has dissappeared, my asthma has gone and my voice is back to normal. I can now run on the treadmill as I once did with full healthy lungs. By the way, did you know that passive smoking damages the ABILITY of the immune system to locate and destroy cancer cells in the lungs? So my answer to all this is NO WAY SHOULD WE ALLOW SMOKING ANYWHERE INDOORS AROUND ANYONE. I am truly amazed that there is even a debate about it in this country.What is the debate about : whether we should stop killing people slowing or not? Get a life Britain....a healthy one.
Kind of hard to argue with that really.
Something else which seemed to pique users' interest was my assertion that TV talent shows have inadvertently been good for music. You can read the full argument in the entry below so I won't go into it here. It might have saved some people an email if they'd read beyond the headline though.
"This is rubbish", began one user, who concluded, "the real saviour to the music industry is something people can't copy themselves: festivals - where music finds it's natural habitat: live performance."
This is pretty much what I was saying, as it happens.
At least that email was relatively civil. "I have no idea why your music editor got the job, because he's clearly got no idea about any decent music" began the next one, much to my joy.
My new best friend continued:
"Reality TV shows havent done music any good, the only reason most people watch them is to laugh at the contestants!! All time great bands such as Iron Maiden have never releid on media of any type to get them to where they are today, which is 14 studio albums, many live albums, millions of followers who take he word fanatic to a different level and appearances at many huge festivals, such as hedlining the download festival for the fourth time this year, something no-one else has done, or hedlining the huge Rock In Rio festival in front of 250,000 people.
so the next ime your "music" editor want to write some awful artical on atrocities such as pop idol and the like, he should stop and think "has 'popular' music really sunk this low" and "are there any other genres that would be a better time investment?" because metal is back on the rise, and im 16 and see it around the schools, and there is nothing these shows can do to stop it."
Read the awful article mate and you'll see that we agree on most things, although we clearly have divergent opinions about spelling and grammar.
Just as I was crying myself to sleep, this came in:
"I was concerned at first when I saw TV Reality Shows Saved Music as to me they turn people off rather than on – it’s all quick fix me me me stuff. I was even ready to comment that you were in the wrong job!!
How wrong I was!! You are spot on and yes I think the good music that’s appeared from the likes of The Kaisers, Amy Winehouse etc has come as a kind of backlash to the rubbish the TV Reality programmes push out. Okay so Will Young’s good and I have to confess to liking Girls Aloud, but most of it is so Middle of the Road that’s where it should be left…to get run over! Might have to read your page more often."
I do love a happy ending.
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