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Eddy Says
Eddy Says: What happened to Remix Night?
By Eddy Temple-Morris | Published on Monday 17 November 2008
Good question. Cargo’s longest running and best night fell by the wayside, as these things do, when new broom came in and brushed clean.
Cargo employed new programmers to book nights there, which they did, on their terms. The unfortunate fact was that they told us we had to change the deal and fall in line with these new terms.
We were already stretched as far as we could go. Two to three live bands and three or so DJs isn’t cheap, but that’s what made the night great. I was already getting these acts to play for a fraction of their worth, and at that stage I hadn’t been paid for over two years.
That’s the key here, almost everybody involved was working for nothing, or near nothing, to make a really great night for a brilliant crowd, or, rather, a family of people. The new deal would have compromised our beloved night, and we didn’t think you deserved that, and we certainly didn’t want to be percieved as short changing our family.
We have, of course, done a couple of Remix All-Nighters since, and we have something very exciting lined up for next year. Going forward there’s nothing I’d like more than to do a regular Remix Night again, somewhere else… we just haven’t found the right place for it yet. I hear Matter is nice…
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Eddy Says from this edition of the CMU Remix Update.
