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When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city don't necessarily shake. For proof, there was the Heatwave Festival, held August 23rd at Mosport Park, about 50 miles outside Toronto. The promoters publicized this event as the first new wave rock festival to be held in North America — the first great cataclysmic music event of the '80s. Punkstock! | |||
A new wave rock festival is a contradiction in terms. Some of us once hoped that as the content of rock changed, so would its packaging and marketing. This hasn't happened and perhaps never will. New wave (ahem) has proved to be adaptable — a nice cooperative little monster. | |||
So what does an event like this mean? Only that, to most of the rock audience, anyone who sells a lot of records is a pop star, and pop stars are to be accorded the same rituals of adoration that have been offered to all pop icons over the last 10 years. Like mass outdoor gatherings. | |||
Heatwave's promoters hoped for 100,000 paying customers; according to estimates in the Toronto papers, they had slightly over half that number. That's still a sizable crowd, and thus only a minute fraction were near enough to see their idols or hear the details of their music. The rest "partied." Why not just go to the beach with your tapes? | |||
It's a long way from the seedy Bowery clubs and SoHo pubs that nurtured this music to the racetrack venues, giant stages, bands airlifted by helicopter to fenced-off trailer camp dressing rooms, color coded backstage passes and other trappings of a bigbiz rock festival. That Heatwave's bands made the transition so easily proves that the rock industry is a big-bellied whale, capable of swallowing anything. | |||
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[[Richard Grabel]] reports on the Heatwave Festival, [[Concert 1980-08-23 Bowmanville|August 23, 1980]] | [[Richard Grabel]] reports on the [[Heatwave Festival]], Saturday, [[Concert 1980-08-23 Bowmanville|August 23, 1980]], Bowmanville, ON, Canada (reprinted from ''NME''). | ||
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[[Ira Robbins]] reviews ''[[Taking Liberties]]''. | [[Ira Robbins]] reviews ''[[Taking Liberties]]''. | ||
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