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Title: Activists Say Rock Festivals Have Too Many 'White Male' Acts, Demand Change
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URL Source: https://heatst.com/world/activists- ... white-male-acts-demand-change/
Published: Jun 19, 2017
Author: Kieran Corcoran
Post Date: 2017-06-19 08:51:48 by Justified
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Views: 1644
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Equality activists are pressuring British music festivals to end their reliance on bands dominated by white males. Diversity experts ordered organizers to “open their minds” and book more female and ethnic minority acts at some fo the country’s biggest festivals including Reading, Leeds, Download, V Fest and Glastonbury. Festival bosses typically respond by observing that their job is to sell tickets rather than meet diversity quotas, so they book their acts accordingly. However, that hasn’t stopped the social justice warriors from interfering. The events attract hundreds of thousands of attendees, each of whom spend about £200 ($250) per ticket for a weekend of music and entertainment. But despite the events’ evident financial success, they are continually criticized for their choice of artists – typically world-famous rock bands consisting of four or five white male musicians. Research compiled by the UK’s Press Association news agency said that of 321 acts booked for UK festivals, only 47 have a female member and 89 have a non-white member. This year’s biggest white male acts are Radiohead and the Foo Fighters (Glastonbury), Eminem and Muse (Reading and Leeds), Aerosmith (pictured above) and Slayer (Download). V Fest – more of a pop than a rock festival – ticks more boxes this year by having Katy Perry and Jay Z as its top acts of the weekend. In the vanguard of critics of the festivals was Keith Harris, the chair of UK Music’s Diversity Taskforce. He said: “People have got to open their minds. “They (female/non-white acts) clearly have fans out there and if you put them on the bill they will clearly bring an audience and in some cases they will bring a new audience, because a lot of the male headliners have been round eight or nine times.” Some festivals swore to take the criticism into account. Bestival, a smaller event with a hippy reputation, said it has a “responsibility to help rebalance the male dominance of festival line-ups”. As such, it is introducing gender quotas for its DJ stage next year, and will insist half of artists are female. Other, more established festivals, have been less keen on such advice in the past. When one of the organizers of Reading and Leeds Festival was asked in 2015 why they kept booking so many men, he cited economics. Speaking to the Guardian, he said: “Why do you think we book the same male acts again and again? Because they sell tickets. “Trust me, if there was a female headline act in the rock genre that sold the same amount of tickets as any one of the headline acts this year, I’d book them.”
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I tend to like some of the BBC shows but have notice in the last 5 years they have killed the shows by diversifying the show. Really you have England or Scotland town in the middle of know where and you have black people? Then they go out of their way to push black guys on white girls and then make all the characters gush over how great they look together and then sit around and watch them have sex! Ok maybe not the sex part but they could have cut that from the show! ;) Really do we go to Zimbabwe and demand they diversify by subsidizing white people to come and live there? The absurdity of SJW and progressives knows no bound.
The SJW's should spend their money, and put on the shows themselves. Then they could hire / book who they want, and risk their money. Otherwise, they should STFU !!! Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Speaking to the Guardian, he said: “Why do you think we book the same male acts again and again? Because they sell tickets. “Trust me, if there was a female headline act in the rock genre that sold the same amount of tickets as any one of the headline acts this year, I’d book them.” Exactly so. These organizers are purely in it for the money, not for white rock-n-roll supremacy. It's daft to suggest that they are anything more than money-grubbing businessmen. If there was demand, they'd book anything they could make money off of. Because they're capitalist pigs.
They don't have the smarts to do that. You heard/read about what happened with the Fyre Festival, right? Fyre Festival canceled after guests allege "scam" The Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, billed as a "luxury" event featuring big music acts and celebrity chefs, is now canceled after a chaotic false start, stranding angry visitors who shelled out thousands of dollars to attend. "Due to unforeseen and extenuating circumstances, Fyre Festival has been fully postponed," the festival tweeted on Friday. "After assessing the situation this morning and looking at best options for our guests, we cannot move forward as we hoped we could. At this time, we are working tirelessly to get flights scheduled and get all travelers home safely." The statement was of little solace to those who were already on the island. After promises of gourmet meals from celebrity chefs, festival-goes who arrived on Thursday were treated to sandwich bread, salad and slices of cheese, one attendee claimed on Twitter. Visitors at the music event called it a fraud. On its website, the Fyre Festival described itself a "cultural moment created from a blend of music, art, and food," and an ad for the event said it featured "the best in food, art, music and adventure." Ja Rule was one of the festival's co-creators and Blink-182, Tyga and Desiigner were supposed to perform. Some patrons paid up to $200,000 to stay in private villas, attend the festival and enjoy high-end food and music from renowned artists, CBS Dallas reports. The first wave of visitors arrived to an unfinished festival site on Thursday. Concertgoer Farah Bengozi told CBS Dallas that the promised "villas" turned out to be bare-bones tents, and there were no big-name musicians or celebrity chefs to be seen. "The food they served was like a soup kitchen, and there wasn't enough of it," she said. "This was a scam for sure ... It could have been something, but they didn't put effort into it." The dinner that Just for fun: That will titulate the sexually constipated. You got a problem with that?
I had no idea Adolf had so much talent.
#2. To: Justified (#0)
#3. To: Justified (#0)
When one of the organizers of Reading and Leeds Festival was asked in 2015 why they kept booking so many men, he cited economics.
#4. To: Stoner, Justified (#2)
The SJW's should spend their money, and put on the shows themselves.
@fyrefestival promised us was catered by Steven Starr is literally bread, cheese, and salad with dressing. #fyrefestival
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Justified, TooConservative, Stoner, A K A Stone, sneakypete, *Music* (#0)
“Trust me, if there was a female headline act in the rock genre that sold the same amount of tickets as any one of the headline acts this year, I’d book them.”
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#6. To: Justified (#1)
I tend to like some of the BBC shows but have notice in the last 5 years they have killed the shows by diversifying the show. Really you have England or Scotland town in the middle of know where and you have black people? Then they go out of their way to push black guys on white girls and then make all the characters gush over how great they look together and then sit around and watch them have sex!
#7. To: Deckard, redleghunter, Liberator (#5)
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