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| tenerifeie wrote: | hi there was just looking and thought i would add my bit in i think your giving the bands a bit of a hard time! the first time i was in tenerife was when i was 14( a lot older now) lol i went to a pub that had a band in it they were great they never had a drummer! what does the tourist look for when they go on holiday to enjoy themself and to sing to the song lyrics( or the lyrics the think they know) lol dont get me wrong i love live music but when your on your holds you want a good time and to sing along! and as you said the so called live bands! dont get as much money but if they are happpy in what there doing and can get the crowd enjoying themselfs are they not working just as hard? the first time i was in tenerife i saw a band, that worked in a dive of a place but the pub was mobed! and everyone was enjoying themself, i have also been in pubs where the band are playing there own music and its been empty! as mere touris when i go on my hols i like to got to a place that has a band playing and listen to songs i know, and sometimes the drums on the keyboard sound better  if you can get the crowd having a ball then thats half the batttle! and everyone is going on about aussie dont get me wrong i think he is amazing  when i saw aussie for the first time it was in a band with drumms on the keyboard!! and if you pack the pubs is that not better than an empy pub? and trying to sing to songs if you dont know them? at the end of the day tenerife is a tourist island and everyone want to enjoy themself and cant wait to get back over instead of being stuck in the uk lol remember to enjoy life  |
I am wondering who this is addressed to? Who is giving the bands a hard time in this thread?
"at the end of the day tenerife is a tourist island" - I don't agree with you on this because there are countless people who are born and bred here (non tourists) and of these there are many of those who are music fans. And then there are plenty who are musicians, singers and writers themselves and they need an outlet for their music which would be songs that tourists wouldn't know and in many cases would be in Spanish!
A main point I have made is its nothing to do with money or size of the place because Wales which is comparatively poor and small as a country turns out no end of internationally successful acts and puts on live music and bands in all its towns and cities. It also manages to provide many small labels for the acts there and radio station shows that play original music - R1 in Wales and Radio Wales both do this.
A lot of that is because acts from Wales have been signed and sold a lot of records so that makes it of interest to the music industry. It is as Jawarra (Tenerife R&B singer) has said that if someone gets a hit record made here by a Canary Islands act it would turn things around fast - I agree with that. I say that there should be more opportunities for Tenerife bands and singer-songwriters for them to be able to play to a wider audience and get their music heard! The island loses acts who leave for mainland Spain because the opportunities do not exist here! This is the same as the bands from Wales who had to go to London to get anywhere but fortunately in Wales that is no longer the case! |
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