I love Deviant Noise

[Fugaziboy]

P.S. Regarding me insulting the president of live music. I say what I feel in my heart and if that means rocking a few boats then screw it, I don't care. Also she was insulting to me, don't I have a right to insult her back? I stand by what I said before, for she doesn't know about the music I would play and probably just lumps it in under one genre of 'metal', without understanding the fundamental differences between the bands.

[benedict]

'[iFugazi never gets played anywhere, why shouldn't one of the most important bands of the last 17 years get played?[/i]'

a society likes Deviant Noize needs to cater for it's members, if there was enough call for it i dare say it may be played.

that said though RockSoc would maybe be a more appropriate night for a band like Fugazi. in such a case if you brought along a cd & requested it preferably during an early slot then you could expect it to be played.

'I stand by what I said before, for she doesn't know about the music I would play and probably just lumps it in under one genre of 'metal', without understanding the fundamental differences between the bands.'

i'd say you're overstepping the mark here & perhaps being a little presumptuous.

i'd quite like to hear a few different genres myself at Deviant Noize events. maybe a varied & interesting selection of trance or maybe a trip-hop or ambient set. however, i wouldn't expect it to be played as it may just be me who'd want to hear that stuff.

[Guest]

To be fair, Tim was a little misguided in his view of Deviant Noise. Idealistically Deviant Noise should be playing anything that other music societies aren't playing.
However, as an example, there are a lot of genres of Jazz that aren't being played at Jazz Scene but if I suddenly played a jazz set at Deviant Noise, people would walk out.
You have to have the right balance between what we are set out to do and then actually what the majority of Deviant Noise goers want to listen to.
That said, I feel that we do offer a wide variety for people. Lately we have played the usual punk, ska and drum and bass, as well as blues, funk, soul, mo town, commercial hip hop as well as left field hip hop, industrial and EBM, trip hop, trance, techno, bhangra, electro nonsense and experimental japanese music (thanks to Ali)... the list goes on.
I think the music that fungaziboy has suggested is the type of music that Alt Soc and Rocksoc are trying to cover, and politically it would be a bad move for us to tread on their toes.
I'm sorry if I offended, but I do get really annoyed at people trying to tell me how to run deviant noise without any knowledge of what is actually involved in its running.