Sunday, March 27, 2005

SPLITTING OFF THE NEW BANDS

There's been some complaints for the last few years that new, local talent tends to get swamped in the Liverpool Mathew Street Festival - the focus being primarily on tribute acts. So the people behind the festival have come up with a splendid idea: a second festival. Every May, there's going to be a free festival focusing on Liverpool talent. It's a nice move, although the cynic might suggest that for a band seeking an audience, having a slot in the middle of a the Beatles festival might be better than being shoved off into a late-Spring all new talent ghetto. Especially now the proper festival is going to concentrate almost entirely on Bootleg Beatles type bands. Even so, a high-profile new bands event on Merseyside is something to be applauded, especially since the demise of the Picket probably meant the Liverpool Now festival is as dead as a cat.


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