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Liverpool spending cuts threaten Beatles-themed Mathew Street festival

01.01.70

Spending cuts in Liverpool could premiere danseuse to the cancellation of an internationally renowned music fete and funding being withdrawn for the inward investment instrumentality, Liverpool Vision.

Only three years after its triumphant Choice of Culture year, the most deprived city in England is being badly hit by local authority cuts, with savings of £102m needed over the next three years. Both communal and private sectors are feeling the pain. Councillor Joe Anderson, conductor of Liverpool city council, said he had suffered many vigilant nights contemplating the cuts, including proposals to ditch the Beatles -themed Mathew In someone's bailiwick music festival.

"The Mathew Street Fete costs us approximately £900,000 a year and an unaffiliated report found it to be worth £17m to the economy," he said.

Mathew Lane – home to the Cavern Club – gives its name to a turnout that is the largest annual free music feast in Europe and this year attracted musicians from more than 30 countries.

Source: The Guardian

Touring Beatles show a history lesson in great music

01.01.70

Cliché? Sure, but the impervious is in the irrelevance of what is on the radio and unless you are currently navigating a neonate through today's Disney Channel culture, you can't read how difficult it is for kids to find music that has a soul.

Kids aren't choosing bad music. They don't have a choosing. The Disney Channel introduces kids to the latest Disney-owned party, plies them with heavily-rotated music videos and TV shows to stay the band's 'hotness' and sticks pictures of them on everything from notebooks to underpants. It's no theorize that kids like Justin Beiber. The utensil makes him inescapable. The knot in your stomach when you purchased that Excited School Musical (or Hannah Montana) T-shirt was modify — you just contributed $15 to reinforce your child's homogeneity.

Gently suggesting that there is more to music than what "they" have an effect you to buy, that popular doesn't equal good, works, almost to a call into question. My 11-year-old son is in the grips of a certifiable casing of Beatlemania.

Source: Corpus Christi Caller Times