john eden
male pale and stale
Fair do's - and I'm sure Watson et al would be sad to see it go too, because they've done stuff there (and whatever it is replaced by would be worse).
There are a few tensions at work really. I don't really know enough about the scene that Watson is so keen on (and never saw Derek Bailey for example) but it would appear from the outside to be heavily dominated by middle aged white men, whereas OTO's programming is way more diverse than that - and its audiences can be, depending on the night.
Similarly I'm a bit sceptical of precisely how jarring or enlightening something can be if its composed of several white dudes on tradiitional jazz instruments and one white dude reading out a text. Don't get me wrong, I definitely I enjoy that and it does send me down various pathways of thought that I get a lot out of. But I don't think that is the effect Ben Watson is trying to produce (and that effect is not unique to his particular brand of performance for me anyway).
There are a few tensions at work really. I don't really know enough about the scene that Watson is so keen on (and never saw Derek Bailey for example) but it would appear from the outside to be heavily dominated by middle aged white men, whereas OTO's programming is way more diverse than that - and its audiences can be, depending on the night.
Similarly I'm a bit sceptical of precisely how jarring or enlightening something can be if its composed of several white dudes on tradiitional jazz instruments and one white dude reading out a text. Don't get me wrong, I definitely I enjoy that and it does send me down various pathways of thought that I get a lot out of. But I don't think that is the effect Ben Watson is trying to produce (and that effect is not unique to his particular brand of performance for me anyway).