Comments on: Wadayawanna Talk About?

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:16:20 +0000

I’m happy to do a talk on failing in the music business. Along with the usual hard luck rubbish – which I won’t go into – I have plently of other examples of how we’ve shot our own feet off.

By: Dave Harte

Dave Harte — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:41:45 +0000

Inspired by this I am preparing to spend the summer undertaking a fail of manageable proportions that could be easily conveyed in a short talk at your event. In that sense I see Failcamp as a catalyst for failure in itself.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:41:27 +0000

Failure – it’s the real thing. Everything else is hype.

By: Lloyd Davis

Lloyd Davis — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:51:07 +0000

Well, yes, I have a performing arts fail under my belt – three years at drama school, seven weeks of professional acting. But I don’t see that as a fail it truly was a whole bunch of experiences that I continue to draw on (in fact I was only talking this evening about an impro class i did in 1985)

I guess I’d have to mention the social media club night when nobody turned up – http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/03/05/billy-no-mates/

There’s also deeper, darker stuff in understanding why I now spend so much of my time building relationships and helping others to do so (ie I’ve been really crap at it in the past but at some point I chose to practice and practice until I got better)

Also my guitar-playing failure led to me taking up the ukulele (thinking, correctly, that four strings are simpler than six)

By: Chris Ivens

Chris Ivens — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:37:03 +0000

I think that FAILCamp should change the venue and time at the last minute without telling anyone and subsequently have no-one turn up. Proper fail.

By: simon gray

simon gray — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:19:18 +0000

the field of performing arts should be well ripe for fail talk – i certainly have stuff to say about performing arts failure.

On a more positive note, something i’ve wanted to see / run myself for a while is a place / night for *genuinely* (as opposed to just using the word as a genre type) experimental music; ‘fizzle’ was almost there for a time, but quickly became a place where the quality of the musicians was so good & polished that it was difficult to believe any genuine experimentation was going on; if the musicians are being truly experimental, then epic – & public – fails occasionally ’should’ be inevitable.

By: dollydaydream

dollydaydream — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:07:42 +0000

I’m sorry, persistance, is what I wish to talk about. I will get my degree one day. One day……….

By: dollydaydream

dollydaydream — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:06:28 +0000

I spent 5 years at university, managed to get a Foundation Degree (in 2 years instead of 1) and then never managed to make it past my 1st ‘proper’ year. I class myself as a big lump of fail!

I keep on truckin’ though