Comments on: Unconvinced with UnPop http://www.indyish.com/unconvinced-with-unpop/ You might be awesome, but we are the Indyish! Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:27:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Risa Dickens http://www.indyish.com/unconvinced-with-unpop/#comment-15979 Risa Dickens Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:37:45 +0000 http://www.indyish.com/unconvinced-with-unpop/#comment-15979 hey! i kind of feel the same way about infringement, Elizathabeth - at least in theory - i think the idea at the heart of it is brilliant - a festival that's totally free for artists and works with no corporate sponsors and provides another layer of performance opportunities could be an excellent balancing compliment to the fringe without needing to be anti-fringe. it just needs a mutually positive vibe for it to work, galvanize everyone, and not be a destructive situation. sounds like POP and Unpop might have found this balance, if it's making sense to the artists and not making them feel like they have to take sides in some sort of teeny tiny turf war. and not ripping them off by proclaiming one set of principles but not following through, which is something that venues have told me infringe has been responsible for, and it's why i don't like the project, despite my sympathy with it. so, awesome! more power to Unpop for making artists like you dig it and feel comfortable applying to both! hey! i kind of feel the same way about infringement, Elizathabeth - at least in theory - i think the idea at the heart of it is brilliant - a festival that’s totally free for artists and works with no corporate sponsors and provides another layer of performance opportunities could be an excellent balancing compliment to the fringe without needing to be anti-fringe. it just needs a mutually positive vibe for it to work, galvanize everyone, and not be a destructive situation. sounds like POP and Unpop might have found this balance, if it’s making sense to the artists and not making them feel like they have to take sides in some sort of teeny tiny turf war. and not ripping them off by proclaiming one set of principles but not following through, which is something that venues have told me infringe has been responsible for, and it’s why i don’t like the project, despite my sympathy with it.

so, awesome! more power to Unpop for making artists like you dig it and feel comfortable applying to both!

]]> By: elizabethbruce http://www.indyish.com/unconvinced-with-unpop/#comment-15927 elizabethbruce Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:31:22 +0000 http://www.indyish.com/unconvinced-with-unpop/#comment-15927 But that's not it at all! Unpop means unpopular, not necessarily anti-pop. It's a festival for unpopular pop music, and I think that's great. I applied to both Pop and Unpop this year, and I don't see that as a conflict of interest. In fact, there was an Unpop day at Pop last year... which some people saw as "selling out," but I saw as co-operation and recognition of the importance of fringe voices. But that’s not it at all! Unpop means unpopular, not necessarily anti-pop. It’s a festival for unpopular pop music, and I think that’s great. I applied to both Pop and Unpop this year, and I don’t see that as a conflict of interest. In fact, there was an Unpop day at Pop last year… which some people saw as “selling out,” but I saw as co-operation and recognition of the importance of fringe voices.

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