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It's time to give something back, Internet Hate Machine. How can we save BAM? There's a lot of creative people on here with strong music industry experience, so let's hear your serious ideas for turning this turkey into a triumph.
I would advocate having Anarchist Duck...
invite Howard the Duck to jam with them.
Serious, workable concepts only please.
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Get a band that someone, somewhere will like.
Get a band to play that people Know / Like.
Simple.
Book them and they will come
HAHAH that howard the duck is fucken hilarious. kudos.
Rebrand it as ''The Glastonbury Festival'' and hold it in England in June.
give someone a free ticket to set fire to the site. fire solves everything.
Have sex on it.
Affiliate with Hillsong
Tin Can Radio to play with the Garbage Pail Kids
with phonebooks
what rendit said.
OR just stop.
I reckon a positive article about the festival on mess+noise should do it.
The only thing that's going to save BAM is an 80s montage.
Free pingers with every ticket sold. 38 hours is a long time without quality drugs on hand.
tell everyone that kings of leon are headlining!!!!
it doesn't matter if it's a lie because when punters reach the muddy fields of BAM they'll be so fuckin blown away by the winnie coopers that they won't feel at all let down
I actually (for the first time) listened to The Winnie Coopers yesterday. They are obviously repelling punters. Shit, they are bad.
book some illusionists onto the bill
sit back and watch them turn $100 bills into 100 pennys
didn't the winnie coopers have one song that got played on jjj?
you shame me, poopeetaste. i have just been using them as lazy shorthand for ''underwhelming headliners'' - i should go and do the honourable thing on myspace
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then again......maybe a set each ! Oh the joy ! BAM saved for sure !
I'd rather not be affiliated with BAM.
(Also, wasn't there an iRock episode about that?)
organise a film crew to turn it into a reality tv program detailing the rise and possible fall of a bunch of hopeful festival organisers and the dream they're trying to realise.
and/or incorporate a cooking contest.
Mental Health is where federal funding is at. Surely some of these bands have members who are mental.
Give free tickets to lunatics and perverts and apply for a grant.
The exclusive live comeback of... Striborg.
Get Custard to play.
put some fake vines around the site and call it ''A day On the green''
nah, custard are providing a 45 min bar/toilet break set at Meredith, there's plenty of bands on the BAM line up providing this already.
Maybe they should do a festival called Bam! Aid and have great local musicians that will attract music lovers who can use ''flushing'' toilets should they need to.
On that note - If all the bands signed up for bam collaborate, they could record a single called we are the bam. The proceeds could go to bam.
That's exactly what the Dirty Three are for me.
Aw I wanted to hold hands during Everything's Fucked, Hellza
I'll be too busy arse raping a bottle of gin come that time :]
They need more experimental marketing.
Anyone who can bring a pressed CD (not a CD-R) by any three of the bands on the bill gets in for half-price.
This is a song about chartering a plane to fly your mates form UK to Australia for a awesome festival......this is a song about buying ticket and bring a friend to the only fun runner in Australia....the world...for free.....This is a song about a sand castle made of passion being distroyed by a cyberspace hate machine. This song is called...Everything (Crowds yell out: EVERYTHING IS FUCKED!).... Is...(Crowds yell out: EVERYTHING IS FUCKED!)... Fucked!!
Oh, have you seen the Dirty 3, tugboat?
Yep, a few times but nobody held my hand. :-(
I quite like Gordon's idea of a BAM AID festival.
In all seriousness, the BAM organisers should look into the history and organisation of Festival of the Sun. Not my cup of tea, but certainly started off along the lines of what BAM's trying to do. When i was there in 2001 it was all relatively unknown acts, in a non-metropolitan location (Port Macquarie) and was run really well, and was CHEAP. Now they've gradually brought in bigger names to the point where they can justify the $145 price tag. Mind you, the lineup doesn't excite me, but at the very least i can recognise that Xaver Rudd, Regurgitator and Sharon Jones are going to draw more ticket sales than the no-names BAM have.