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It's time to vote for our next two festivals which will run from March 1 to April 30. Voting starts now and runs for 5 days. You can change your vote any time until the closing of the poll on February 28th. To do so, click "Remove vote" to cancel your previous vote, then vote again.

This poll is for the "Artists/Covers" festival. There is a separate poll for the "Theme/Genre" festival here:

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=17797.0 (https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=17797.0)

Please vote in both polls.

Note: Several of the choices have been limited by the admin team, so it's important to read the following descriptions before voting.

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Descriptions:

DeadRockstarFest - Not just any dead rockstar. We'll only accept covers of songs by the following eight dead artists:

• Captain Beefheart
• Syd Barrett
• Kurt Cobain
• Phil Lynott
• Roy Orbison
• Sam Cooke
• Buddy Holly
• Marc Bolan

You can, of course, cover songs by the bands that the artists were in, but only songs on which they actually performed. For example, Syd Barrett was in Pink Floyd, but he only played on three of the songs from their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets, and is not on any of the subsequent albums. So don't submit Pink Floyd songs that Syd didn't play on. The same goes for the other artists in this fest, though they're not as likely to be absent from their band's recordings.

VarietyFest 2 - A sequel to our first VarietyFest from January/February 2012. This time round, we'll cover songs by the following six artists:

• Dire Straits
• XTC
• Aerosmith
• Mott the Hoople
• The Smiths
• Talking Heads

We'll also accept covers of songs by core members of those groups as solo acts. So you can cover Mark Knopfler, Andy Partridge, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Ian Hunter, Morrissey, David Byrne, etc.

Classic Albums - Not just any classic album. We'll only accept covers of songs from the following four albums:

• "Tea for the Tillerman" by Cat Stevens
• "Get Happy!!" by Elvis Costello and the Attractions
• "Unknown Pleasures" by Joy Division
• "Transformer" by Lou Reed

It would be cool if we could manage to cover all of the songs on one or more of these albums.

This is going to be close once again

What do you call variety?
In France it is quite a negative word, it would be old fashioned crooners' music, sang on saturday night TV shows  in front of grannies falling asleep... Nothing like The Smiths or Dire Straits...

I propose a DeadRockstarFest... but a special one : a Club27Fest.
You all knows the famous "club 27", musicians all died at 27 :
Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Robert Johnson, etc
What do you think of it for a future festival?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
Jean-Sébastien

I like the 27 club idea.

Quote from: danieldesete on February 25, 2013, 07:14:42 AMWhat do you call variety?
In France it is quite a negative word, it would be old fashioned crooners' music, sang on saturday night TV shows  in front of grannies falling asleep... Nothing like The Smiths or Dire Straits...

Variety, in this usage, simply means a diverse assortment of artists. So, rather than choosing just one artist for the fest or several similar or related artists, the choices for VarietyFest are meant to be different and unrelated so there's something for everyone. Although, looking at the list now, I see that we've chosen all rock/pop artists. We probably should have chosen some artists from other genres to make it more diverse.

Here's a definition I found via Google:

• The quality or state of being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity, sameness, or monotony.
• A number or range of things of the same general class that are different or distinct in character or quality.

The admin team discussed the idea of a 27ClubFest, but the Wikipedia page shows 44 artists currently in that club and we decided that we preferred to select a smaller number of artists. We might revisit the idea of a 27ClubFest in the future but more likely we'd just choose another eight deceased artists. We'll see. Maybe we could choose eight from the 27Club list.

If you knew me you know I love Variety!  ;)

I hate seeing Dead people!!!

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FstzrYeI72k/UPdcsSIPimI/AAAAAAAACic/c5jT_9NI7og/s1600/ISeeDeadPeople.jpg)

QuoteIn France it is quite a negative word, it would be old fashioned crooners' music, sang on saturday night TV shows  in front of grannies falling asleep

You got my vote!

15 / 13 someone changed his vote !

Quote from: danieldesete on February 27, 2013, 01:13:47 AM15 / 13 someone changed his vote !

It's a shame, was hoping VarietyFest II would get through this time, seemed equally close last time.

3 fests?

I like the idea of the 27club deadfest very good, not keen on the selection of artists in the deadfest personally.

Still time, see what happens!

Quote from: danieldesete on February 27, 2013, 01:13:47 AM15 / 13 someone changed his vote !

Hmm yes not too keen on that! Once you stick a vote in a box it is sealed. No take backs allowed.  :)

Really now, XTC, The Smiths & Talking Heads...seems like a no brainer! My votes never win though!

weird things happening to the votes again...........................

Darn close! I'm kind of happy with any of them, so no worries here :-)

I forget what happens with a tie? Can we merge these 2 fests and call it... Variety Dead fest!  :P

I guess the DeadRockstarFest is a VarietyFest in its own right

There's only one to find out....

FIGHT!!!!

My money's on the living guys

Since both choices are quite popular, we'll do them both but not at the same time. Instead, I've created a tie-breaker poll to decide which one will be the March/April fest. The other will then become the May/June fest.

Please, everyone, vote in the tie-breaker poll on the following page to decide which one we do first.

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=17837.0 (https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=17837.0)

The poll will last only 24 hours and you can't change your vote. So vote carefully and vote now.

Quote from: Nick / odh on February 28, 2013, 03:12:30 PMThere's only one to find out....

FIGHT!!!!

My money's on the living guys

Mines on the Zombies