anyone got an inside on WMC

[pod]

WMC would dry up in the desert.

WMC isn't just an excuse for New Yorkers to come south in March...WMC is largely European influenced, and the saying over there, according to a friend of mine, is "What are you doing in Miami this year?" ... not WMC, "Miami"...

Lost Vegas could do it's own WMC, or WMC could move there, but it wouldn't make much of a difference over here...

Andrew, like it or not, the tranceheads, glam pussies, and broke-ass people make up conference week as much as the house folk, the rich people, and so forth...and don't forget about the breaks, DnB, techno, and ambient folk too.

Vegas is for middle america, the real cities like NYC, Miami, Chicago, and LA are where the true action is at.

[rafaelmendez]

Bring it to Chi-town. I was walking down Michigan Ave the other day and I imagine having a party in the street at night in chicago would be fucking nuts.

[pod]

Yeah maybe in an alternate universe. WMC stays put, end of story.

[mrstony]

is it definetly 100% the third week in march?

[pod]

Yep.

[andrewthomas]

who cares about WMC

WMC is miamis only successfull clubbing weekend

miami heads would be the only one to bitch if it moved to vegas

me personal y care less where it was

[pod]

Umm nope..you'd hear this mass bitch fest from London to Moscow to Tokyo...Middle America might not mind, but if it moved to Vegas, it'd become the Whitebread Music Conference.

[andrewthomas]

and anyone outside of miami would care because??

[pod]

Well, the European crowd likes it here, the ocean, the beaches, shit they don't get at home, they've been coming for 15+ years and they like it...like i said before they say "what are you doing for miami this year?" over there...and last time I checked, Europe is like 50% of the dance music scene in this world...again, you'd here complaints from London to Moscow about it...Vegas to them is just casinos in the desert...they have casinos at home in far more hospitable locations, monaco, the Greek Isles, etc...and they don't have to put up with obnoxious american tourists from Illinois and the other flyover states.

The accessibility issue comes into play too. Miami International Airport, the Port of Miami, and so forth are major international transfer points, it's so cheap to get here from most corners of the world. Getting to McCarran Airport in Vegas from Western Europe, and even SE Asia requires a stopover, and costs more. McCarran is about the size of Lauderdale Airport at best, only major shipping that goes on there is material to Groom Lake via the Janet flights...so Miami has cheap flights, established hotels that are used to the WMC crowd, and so on, so it's not gonna happen, this move to Lost Vegas.

[andrewthomas]

europe makes only 15% of the wmc if even that.

you can argue all day about everything that u dont agree with but fact of the matter is noone really cares where it is except floridians

move to vegas or stay here i dont care nor do the djs who are getting paid

[koky]

Originally posted by andrewthomas

europe makes only 15% of the wmc if even that.

you can argue all day about everything that u dont agree with but fact of the matter is noone really cares where it is except floridians

move to vegas or stay here i dont care nor do the djs who are getting paid

[andrewthomas]

here comes koky with his brilliant input on everything

[koky]

Originally posted by andrewthomas

here comes koky with his brilliant input on everything

:cool: :cool:

[saintjohn]

Originally posted by andrewthomas

europe makes only 15% of the wmc if even that

close, but not quite. according to the wmc website, the actual numbers look like this:

Australia 2%

Asia 2%

Canada 3%

Europe 20%

Latin America 3%

Other 4%

United States 69%

(btw, that's a total of 103%. wtf?)

i couldn't find a breakdown of that last figure, so i don't know how many floridians attend versus new yorkers, et cetera. of course, these statistics only reflect actual conference attendees, not all of the people who just go to the parties and/or ultra.

it's important to understand, however, that the relatively small numbers of european and other foreign wmc delegates have a disproportionately large influence on the conference. when you walk into a panel discussion and find representatives from most of the major british record labels sharing their views on the state of dance music, it makes an impression. if those folks won't go to, say, las vegas (and i don't claim to know their travel preferences), then the conference would lose much of its allure for eveyone involved.

wmc is still here because it works here. until that changes, why move it? sure, it's fun to discuss (or argue) various wmc-related issues, but the views expressed on this board aren't going to prompt the conference organizers to re-think an obviously successful business plan.