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Another successful music fest
The ticket sales are still being tallied up, but the early attendance count of this year’s Dayton Music Fest is over 600. It was physically impossible to see every band, but I did my best to catch as many as possible. All the bands I saw played well, and things went very smooth.
When you get together 35 great area bands in one place on one night it is just overwhelmingly apparent how lucky we are to have such a talent pool. I keep hearing that Dayton was once labeled ‘the next Seattle’ by Spin magazine some 10 years ago. If Dayton continues to produce the quality bands that are filling our clubs every weekend; then 10 years from now Spin will be calling some other city ‘the next Dayton.’
Special thanks to Dan Clayton, Andy Ingram, and Shawn Johnson, for putting together the fest again. The amount of sweat and hours those three put into this fest are sickening and amazing.
I would really love to hear your music fest stories. Click on the comments page and recap your night at the fest and tell me who your favorite bands were that you saw.
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By Andy
October 13, 2006 3:10 PM | Link to this
Final count was somewhere between 850-900. Our counting methods are kind of primitive, so when Kris asked, all we could say then was 600 for sure. I don’t know who we supposedly screwed in favor of the hack bands. A lot more people said “no” to us instead of us saying “no” to them. And we weren’t trying to grow anything. The Dayton Music Fest is a very simple idea that has come together quite easily for two straight years. We had more venues and bands who wanted to be involved and so we just tried to include everyone we could. We’re not trying to be elitists. And if we were, we sure couldn’t do a Fest. Only one band would be worthy to play, and that would be New Order. Everyone else sucks. But we are trying to promote Dayton, not rip it down or complain about it. That never helps or changes anything. So maybe not all the bands are the best of the best. But if people don’t get a chance to play, we will never find out if we have the best of the best living among us. Having lived in Seattle I always thought that quote was lazy journalism. We don’t have mountains. But we do have some good music being made here. And I wish people would encourage that even more.By nathan
October 12, 2006 12:43 AM | Link to this
600? when MONA won the playoffs there was over 700 and that was just 3 bands. Half the bands at the fest dont even deserve the stage. Good idea but they tried to grow too fast and screwed over the cities finest and gave a few hack bands prime spots. but by that time people were too drunk to care. of course what would you expect from a city that pretends Swearing at Motorist even matter, Seattle? more like Lima. but I’m only saying this if we want good music and a good scene. Dont get me wrong Flyaway Minion and a couple of other bands did their thing but overall, cmonBy Stephanie
October 11, 2006 3:15 PM | Link to this
You are doing a wonderful job at getting us infomation on the new and upcoming events and music, thank you so much and keep up the great work!!!!