Re: (TV) Impact of Reviews on Crowds?

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <20041201232933.19990.qmail@web54301.mail.yahoo.com>, robin 
dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com> writes
> anyone want to comment on the british music press perhaps being much 
> worse than the u.s. press?  meaner?
> more fickle?

Certainly more interesting, with the exception of Lester Bangs and a 
couple of others. But all the great British music papers have all been 
weeklies, so the people who can write quickly get singled out from the 
people who can't. I don't know about meaner...more sarcastic and less 
prone to propping up the sacred cows, maybe.

It's a much smaller country so people who read them tend to know about 
new stuff, perhaps. I always thought they found all the best stuff from 
the US and told us about it - witness the popularity and amount of press 
that Beefheart got over here. And of course the Ramones and Television 
when they were still virtually unheard-of outside NYC in the States. We 
kind of soak things up and bring them home. (In a recent survey in The 
Guardian about attitudes to Iraq, someone from Italy said, "The 
Americans rule the world, but the British write about it.")

I don't actually think that a bad review results in an empty venue. 
Who's going to see Television if they've never heard of the band? And 
are people who like Television going to be put off by what some jerk in 
a newspaper says?
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