Friday 7 September 2007

How the SWP Can Save the UK Music Scene

Some lessons from Tony Cliff, founder of the Socialist Workers' Party, which promoters and unsigned bands might take to heart:

- There's no use burying your head in the sand and saying 'there'll be 20 people there'. Much better to admit that 7 people are going to turn up, and work hard to get an 8th.

- Don't mistake grand names and attitudes for actual popularity. Tony Cliff was once introduced to a woman who claimed to represent 'The Pan African Liberal Christian Women's Movement for Democracy and Freedom'. His first comment was: 'I hope there are as many members of this organisation as there are in its title'.

More on Tony Cliff: http://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/index.htm

1 comment:

Ben Paul said...

Aw, I thought you were talking about Shaun Wright-Phillips the fleet footed winger formerly of this parish.