TITP 2017

[Paul ™]

Surely this forum should be put in old forums now and a new thread for the new events on Glasgow Green put in Other Festivals.

[dentalplan]

42 minutes ago, Paul ™ said:

Surely this forum should be put in old forums now and a new thread for the new events on Glasgow Green put in Other Festivals.

I thought the same for a couple of weeks but now I've taken the steps to do that.

 

[eFestivals]

1 hour ago, Paul ™ said:

Surely this forum should be put in old forums now 

thanks for reminding me.

 

[MinionDave]

Just in case anyone is interested, DF Concerts have paid back £50k of the £150k they got from government to help with moving to Strathalan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-38921730

Based on £150k over the three years they had the license, so 1/3rd paid back.

ta, D

[devilman]

We just need the grant they got every year for performing arts to be paid back now too.

[eFestivals]

31 minutes ago, devilman said:

We just need the grant they got every year for performing arts to be paid back now too.

oh c'mon - it's pretty standard for festivals of all sizes to benefit from arts grants of one kind or another. I know Glastonbury do.

[devilman]

It's being applied in the wrong place. It should go to the grass roots workshops etc. Glastonbury you could forgive as it promotes all kinds of art. T was just a big fleecing cash cow who stripped everything back to the point they actually had a cheek calling it a festival. An arts grant was about as appropriate as them getting a farm subsidy for having beef burger sellers. They probably winged a subsidy based on the land usage for the rest of the year come to think of it.........

[eFestivals]

13 hours ago, devilman said:

It's being applied in the wrong place. It should go to the grass roots workshops etc. Glastonbury you could forgive as it promotes all kinds of art. T was just a big fleecing cash cow who stripped everything back to the point they actually had a cheek calling it a festival. An arts grant was about as appropriate as them getting a farm subsidy for having beef burger sellers. They probably winged a subsidy based on the land usage for the rest of the year come to think of it.........

it's a matter of opinion for where it should go, of course, but I'd say that T justified its small grant per-head at least as well as some grass roots stuff currently getting grants might a much bigger grant per-head.

And sorry, but I don't think a sort of snobbery over what you might think is good/worthwhile or bad is a great starting point towards culture. It's art with an interest in it - and that's the only criteria needed at a broad level. It might not be your thing but it's someone's, and who knows, it might be the start of a journey for them where they'll end up somewhere more to your approval.

Feel free to take the piss out of what you don't like, but I reckon it's stepping into a dangerous area to start ruling it out of possible public support just because some thing's not to a personal liking. There is only opinion about this sort of stuff at the end of the day, so the process for public support needs to be open to all opinions.

(PS: I'm not entirely comfortable about the not-standard-process via which T obtained the grant, but that's a different thing, and it's been looked into and T supposedly fulfilled the grant criteria)

Edited February 11, 2017 by eFestivals