Friday 30 May 2008

LMHR CARNIVAL 'REVIEW' IN THE NEW STATESMAN – UNION LEADERS RESPOND

Daniel Trilling’s ‘review’ of the LMHR Carnival in the New Statesman was the sound of the point sailing way over the head of the reviewer. Leaders of some of the event’s main trade union sponsors responded…

Daniel Trilling (Love Music, Hate Commercial Sponsorship) appears to have attended a different LMHR Carnival to the rest of us. If he did actually file his report after being in Victoria Park on April 27th then he could at least have taken the trouble to get his facts right.

Our unions were proud to be among the major sponsors of this important event. To say the Carnival was undermined by commercialism is a gross reversal of the truth. This was an event which was free to enter – with a line-up that would easily grace a commercial music festival
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