B-SIDE1414779017 Posted November 24 Report Share Posted November 24 http://www.futuremusic.com/news/november2004/wmc.html../ WMC 2005 Dates Spark ControversyThe organizers of the Winter Music Conference announced that the 20th Anniversary of the event will take place in Miami, Florida from March 22-26, 2005. However, Luis Puig, owner of Miami's uber-sized club Space, feels five days of amazing electronic music, incredible talent, and no sleep, is just not enough. Puig, in an open letter to Bill Kelly, the Winter Music Conference's head-honcho, wants to expand the event to nine days.Puig's letter outlines seven reasons why the event's span should be expanded, but his opinion is best summed up by the opening statement, "too many attendees, not enough time." Puig feels five days are just not enough time to adequately accommodate the throngs of electronic music fans that flock to the event, and certainly not enough time to take in all the plethora of musical talent. In addition, he feels that the conference misses out in attracting Spring Breakers who generally hit the beaches of Florida the week before.While no one can argue against more great music for a longer duration, frankly many of the past attendees that we polled replied, "five days is plenty for me, in fact, I often take a vacation after the conference, just to recover."The Future: The WMC has simply taken on a life of its own. There are now so many ancillary events, shows, conferences, etc. that no one organization can simply dictate what's going to take place. If Luis Puig, or anyone else, wants to throw a huge dance music festival before or after the official dates, then nothing should stop them. Many industry veterans often come down earlier and stay later to accommodate their intense schedules of gigs, meetings, hook-ups and other mandatory business, so they're in South Beach already. Aside from attracting Spring Breakers, which the conference certainly does not need, it's hard to understand why Puig or anyone else needs to make the dates such a public issue. :-X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest musicalmissionary Posted November 25 Report Share Posted November 25 http://www.futuremusic.com/news/november2004/wmc.html..it's hard to understand why Puig or anyone else needs to make the dates such a public issue. :-XGreed!!! plain and simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4tribal1414779019 Posted November 25 Report Share Posted November 25 okay this topic has been brought up several times....old news... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.