UKNM: Re: International Acts

[Jason Hall]

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Jayne wrote ....

>>

> This is true I look at Time Out and see a number of foreign acts

> on at various clubs. It seems to be a lot easier to get a London gig if

> you are from the States, Canada etc than if you are from Scotland.

>


A while back, I seem to remember reading one of Alexei Sayle/David

Stafford's excellent "Great Buses Journeys of the World" columns in Time

Out, (they never did find a decent replacement), about this kind of thing.


As I recall, Alexei was proposing jetting off to Australia/Canada/America or

wherever and blagging his way onto TV talk shows and big paying gigs by

pretending to be "Britain's top funnyman", (this was before he had his own

TV shows).


Simple idea ... go to a foreign country and you can artificially leapfrog

hierarchy - particularly if you're American.  (Don't know why.  There are

exceptions, of course, but many yanks can be summed up by this simple

equation ... Poor material + slick presentation = polished turd with a mic).

A similar thing happens a lot in football.  How often have you seen a local

press headline like "HIBS SIGN BRAZILLIAN ACE"?  Everyone thinks "oooh!

He's Brazillian!  Must be good!".  Three weeks later he's sat on the subs

bench getting pelted with pies.


Shame Alexei never followed this idea up.  Who knows?  He might have ended

up with a cameo in a Steven Spielberg blockbuster.


jasonh


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