Tags for Forum Posts: finsbury park, live nation
Time for direct action. Protests, disruption of event set up and operation. Put their profits at risk and they might go elsewhere.
PLEASE DO send your pictures to the following people. The friends of Finsbury Park are appalled by this, I'm on the committee.
All useful contacts here. A twitter thread my other group Haringey Tree Protectors did here too: https://x.com/JustPlaneNews/status/1816479971147235344
Slight error - if complaining about Live Nation / Festival Republic their email address is
FinsburyPark.residents@festivalrepublic.com
not the Krankbrother address given above.
Konrad!
I suggest that residents potentially have a tiny and severely limited amount of influence on elected representatives, but zero leverage on council's big corporate customers.
One of which is a gigantic global music monopoly whose "TicketMaster" subsidiary is the subject of attention from the DOJ in the USA.
Clive,
Morning Konrad!
Corrections are always good and I certainly approve of your directing comments to the actual underlying, facilitators of damage to our public park.
Principal responsibility must lie at the door of the current council leader, who endorses the policy of park privatising.
GRIME
Grime has long been part of the fare of council customer Festival Republic, a part of global music monopolist, Live Nation.
This style of music has been criticised for mysogyny and homophobia,
These themes are blasted into three Boroughs by the council's customer. I would have thought that such themes are not necessarily part of "Labour values".
However, the "Rebel Council" leader has turned a blind eye to these aspects and to the foul language. Before becoming elected leader, Councillor Ahmet endorsed this kind of music, claiming that Grime is about "working-class struggle".
The message to residents seems to be: suck it up (using an unlovely phrase of one of her colleagues).
Agreed that this is unacceptable and upsetting. I wasn't as informed about the events this July (see my first point below), but not sure if other neighbours had the same observations? I can't find any retrospective information on the council's website:
If I recall correctly, Tough Mudder was unceremoniously barred from FP for causing similar type of damage. Whilst this was a separate issue, it possibly could have been better managed as a much smaller event to minimise damage and still enable a one day, small scale charity event to happen? One that didn't block off the majority of the park for weeks with high security fencing and attendant H&S, amenity access and safety problems...? As it was, outraged letters and so on about Tough Mudder were out of proportion with the usual lacklustre council response to the damage and disruption caused by much larger scale music festivals.
On the plus side, as a regular cycle commuter through the park, I was pleased last winter to see lighting installed for part of the way. When it's switched on, that is. It was transformative - 6pm on a winter's evening would still have people out exercising, walking dogs etc., in better lit and safer conditions. Small steps!
KRANKBROTHER is up next.
It's now the turn of the north-side of our park to be trashed by another of Haringey's big corporate customers. With full council approval.
Near the south-eastern corner of the newly-bloated site, some remedial measures appear to be on stand-by (near the mini-forest, planted by volunteers).
There awaits up to 30 big builder's-type bags of bark, ready and waiting to try to so soak up mud, ruts and scouring etc.
Everyone expects harm to the park surface. Surely only irresponsible owners would repeatedly rent out assets when they expect damage?
The Council's official Stakeholders are decided strictly by the council employees and all aspects of the meetings they dominate, is controlled by the council. Is it because Councillors and council staff feel no personal stake in a public park?
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There was a suggestion abroad that, in order to see if ticket-holders exceeded the maximum permitted (10,000?), resident volunteer(s) could stand with a counter, checking how the numbers of customers.
This is impractical for these reasons:
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