No it's not. That's just some small marketing company pitching for work.Band social media is often handled by third party managers like this one:
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It’s the product of years worth of neoliberal mismanagement of institutions. I don’t think you can untangle them so straightforwardly. Picking on one piece of it is like saying that the battery in a radio makes the voice come out the speaker, because when you remove the battery, the voice stops talking.
i think it more likely that you can't do that in holland but they changed the law here some years ago while we were still in the eu P&O Ferries sackings: Change in law signed off by Chris Grayling meant P&O didn't need to tell govt, maritime lawyer says
My question to you was: who handles the White Lies’ social media? Do you know?
Indeed. Looking at the informal nature of the tweets it's almost certainly run by the band, their manager, their tour manager or a mixture of all three (as is often the case with bands at this level).
of course it matters.
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Without wishing (too much) to turn this thread into a discussion around the nature of knowledge, the band, their manager, their tour manager or a mixture of all three may have first hand knowledge of why their gig couldn't go ahead (their gear didn't arrive at the venue in time), but they don't (and can't) have first hand knowledge of why their gear didn't arrive in time.
It could just have been a fuck up by the tour manager and they are blaming the resulting mess on external factors?
I'm not suggesting that.
Once the magic roundabout has started no one can say where it will stop
And your evidence for it being a fuck up by the tour manager is....? You know, the very same band who have successfully played multiple European dates before and are now on a huge two month long tour across multiple countries
Past performance is no guarantee of future success. I note you say the band have successfully played loads of European tour dates before but make no mention of their previous association with the tour manager
We did examine things a bit further. Turns out there was an IT fuckup in the customs process (a process that only exists because of Brexit) at exactly the time the band's equipment was delayed. So said twitter post is entirely plausible.
And of course the not brexit related p&o bit
Bands usually stick with the same tour manager but if you know different, please be sure to post up the results of your research, not that it has any bearing on the band's claims that their equipment was held up because of Brexit fuck ups.
They don't say anything about brexit fuck ups as has been pointed out to you at least five times. They refer instead to brexit legislation, as tho their predicament was not the result of computer failure or p&o's shitstorm but a permanent and foreseeable framework. But that claim doesn't really stand up to examination and if it really was to do with brexit legislation you'd expect an experienced tour manager to factor that into their planning. Research indicates they've used the same tour manager for nine years, I wonder if they'll use him next time
There have always been border controls when entering or leaving the UK. Who can forget (apart from you, obvs) the stationing of UK immigration officers in Calais? Your suggestion that there were no border controls before we left the European Union is such a load of cobblers I am astonished you have the front to propose it
Got much experience touring in a band across Europe, have you?
