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Post by Admin on Nov 26, 2018 10:21:16 GMT -5
Being active in my local scene in 2018 I have noticed that it appears to be growing and overall pretty healthy.
I've been told by friends in NYC that the scene is pretty lively there too.
So it would be interesting to hear how the scene is doing in other areas and regions. What's it like where you live these days?
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bones
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Post by bones on Nov 27, 2018 20:05:54 GMT -5
The local scene in Sydney, and Australia generally, no longer really exists. There is one club that they've resurrected from the 1980s but they don't play anything they weren't playing 25 years ago and it's the same old faces, with a few more wrinkles. There is absolutely no new blood coming through whatsoever. In 2004, we played with Covenant, which attracted more than 700 people. A year or so later we supported KMFDM on their first Australian tour and they got 1000 people along. A couple of years ago a promoter brought out Leather Strip, Clan of Xymox and Covenant to do a kind of travelling festival sort of thing. We got to play at the Brisbane show and, despite Xymox and Leaether Strip having never played in Australia before, we got 48 paying customers. The next night in Sydney was a little better, with around 300 punters, but still a far cry from the 1000 KMFDM got a decade earlier. After that, there have only been a couple of overseas bands touring here and the promoter lost money on both so for teh last two or three years, there's been nothing.
There hasn't been a live industrial scene here since the mid-1980s. The live music scene has always been very rock-oriented but in the early 80s it was so big and so diverse that there was plenty of electronic and industrial stuff going on. Not any more. It's probably 10 years since we played a gig that wasn't supporting a touring act from overseas. The opportunities just aren't there and we know that if we try to organise something ourselves, we'll be lucky to get 40 people along.
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