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Toronto Summer Music Conference (pg. 2)
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| Time2Burn |
| quote: | Originally posted by iant56
What do you mean its not being executed properly ..this event looks wild!!!!!
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Ya it all looks amazing but with 2 months left and the promise of a huge DJ line up that has not been released yet - it seems sketchy. |
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| exstasie |
Like someone mentioned...
This *Could* have potential!
Where do I sign up for the Golf Tournament? I wanna play some Golf with Tiesto please :D :D
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by exstasie
Where do I sign up for the Golf Tournament? I wanna play some Golf with Tiesto please |
At WMC they have a charity bowling match where the DJs show up and if you buy a ticket you can bowl with Deep Dish and the likes. |
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| Invasionmix |
| I really hope this launches well. It'll be awesome having such a big festival like this. |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
At WMC they have a charity bowling match where the DJs show up and if you buy a ticket you can bowl with Deep Dish and the likes. |
That would be awesome :D
I can imagine this turning out to be an awesome event!
http://www.summermusicconference.co...task=view&id=51
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| Big Boss |
| There's no way an event like this would work because all the "big guys" are happy enough making money by themselves. To pull something like this off, you need everyone in the scene from top to bottom working together and that's never going to happen. |
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Time2Burn
Ya it all looks amazing but with 2 months left and the promise of a huge DJ line up that has not been released yet - it seems sketchy. |
+1
Not trying to smack the idea here but I agree with others about the whole approach this seems to be taking. The Toronto International Dance Summit billed as a "festival" back in 2006 was nothing more than a collection of parties at various clubs, some of which were already scheduled to occur long before the event was announced. Patrons had the ability to purchase an "all access pass" to admit them into "participating" parties on a specified night. My initial thoughts when I checked out the SMC site was that it seemed to be going down this road. Moreover, the whole moniker of 'SMC' has already been used in similar festivals in San Francisco and Shanghai. I think a more original name that highlights the fact that this is a "Toronto" based event might have been more effective at creating a more unique brand identity.
With all due respect to Sound Academy aka. The Docks as a club/venue, I just don't see it being ideal as a main stage central venue for this sort of thing given its limited access by public transit and not-so-central location within the city. A nice large open air outdoor venue used in the likes of Movement at DEMF would probably be more appropriate, although one has to ask whether again the 'city' would ever sanction it unless it was somehow politically motivated as seen in the Marijuana (Freedom Festival) march or Pride.
There's nothing wrong with the fact that Toronto is trying to get on the whole conference bandwagon late in the game, but I certainly agree that something of this scale requires very thorough planning and most importantly the combined efforts of all the big promoters within the city. And as history has shown us in the past, club politics and infighting can sometimes be a far greater impediment for success for this scene than gaining acceptance and legitimacy by the municipal government and the Toronto public as a whole.
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| gummybear |
| I think this has a lot of potential....I hope it does well..festivals like this can never be bad for a city..:) |
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| junkie_vince |
| Personally I like the idea but if the city doesn’t back it I think it’ll flop or it’ll be nowhere near what they are advertising it to be. |
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| chico |
pretty sure the real summer music conference is in IBIZA
doubt they will have much luck getting enough serious talent off the island to toronto in late july to really make this successful |
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