Friend of mine wrote this - wondered what you guys thought.
"It is the promoters' general method to ask the bands to bring an audience. Oddly, there is little pretense anymore that the bands are there to entertain the audiences. The "audiences" dutifully show up at the request of the bands, to pose as an audience so that the bands may entertain their own vision of themselves as cultural deities (as rock gods, or pop idols, or bohemian poets or what have you) - a vision that we've swallowed whole from the ever present fourth party, mass culture."
Rest of article at [url="http://www.zangproductions.co.uk/blog/the-abh-why-we-left-the-venues-and-took-to-the-streets/"]http://www.zangproductions.co.uk/blog/the-abh-why-we-left-the-venues-and-took-to-the-streets/[/url]