A message from Bex Evans of Speechless with Sound posted on MySpace today....
"Appologies to all about the weekend just gone, due to various different reasons the weekend did not go as planned and efforts was made to try and salvege something over the weekend period, however best efforts was unable to save the weekend as a whole. Best wishes are made to all and hope that you all have a great career."
I'm sorry guys, but I just HAD to rip this apart. I've come to the conclusion that Bex Evans is not evil, just unbelievably thick. However, solely in my opinion of course, she IS a self-serving, arrogant, selfish chancer. If the best she can do for all the bands and fans that she completely messed about at the weekend is to offer a few lines of badly spelled and grammatically incorrect drivel, then she clearly has no place in Manchester's music scene. Bands spend countless hours in the rehearsal rooms, driving to and from gigs, waiting around at soundchecks... spend thousands of pounds on equipment, rehearsal space, petrol, promotion... and Bex offers this limp apology for completely fucking up what was supposed to be a professionally run 'Industry Event'? Who the hell is she kidding? Surely nobody can take her seriously after this debacle? The venue which she ran at last year's 'Catch In the City' was a shambles, though the other venues were by all accounts a roaring success. The 2007 Christmas Hide & Seek festival was even worse, with 3 stages being reduced to two because she hadn't organised a back line. Then there was the issue of there being only about 15 people in audience due to the usual Speechless With Sound promotion campaign of doing sweet fuck all. I remember coming down one evening and the poster listing all the bands was still up from the previous day! Comedy at it's best. One band who had national television exposure and were causing quite a stir at the time commented that they'd never seen anything like it before in any part of the country.
Focusing on her 'apology', she may open with 'apologies to all' but has she truly said that she's SORRY? I don't think so, just a pathetic excuse about 'various different reasons' and 'best efforts'. There's no specific apology to the fans that turned up to closed doors or changed line-ups. No specific apology to bands that spent time and money promoting the weekend for her only to either not play or be shoved elsewhere. No specific apology to the local press who were scratching their heads trying to figure out why the band they's come to review had already played at a venue on the other side of the city. There was definitely no offer of money back for disgruntled fans.
I'm of the opinion that Bex Evans should hire out Dry Bar and Night & Day for a Saturday and put on all the bands that she messed around and open the doors as a free to enter evening. This would at least be a goodwill gesture and perhaps go someway to putting together a reputation that currently lies in tatters on the streets of Manchester. It may also help restore the reputations of the other companies (e.g. M20 Records, ) who have been tarnished by their association with Bex Evans and her sub-amateur SWS 'Promotion' company. In this forum Dave from M20 Records stated that perhaps Bex needed a friendly arm round the shoulder and some advice rather than a verbal lynching and boycotting of SWS gigs by all and sundry. It was inferred that she had just taken on more than she could handle. In that case SHE NEEDS TO STAND UP LIKE AN ADULT AND TAKE IT ON THE CHIN. Admit where you went wrong, apologise for it and explain how things will be better next time. Don't give us a mini-paragraph that says fuck all.
WE WON'T TAKE THIS SHIT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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