Germany's F**K THE COMMERCE Festival Moving Indoors

December 18, 2008

The organizers of the Fuck The Commerce festival, which is normally held in the spring in Altes Lager (near Jüterbog),Germany, have announced that next year's event will be moving indoors due to problems with securing a suitable venue in which to stage the festival. "We thought about different possibilities," they write on the official Fuck The Commerce web site. "One way would be to cut costs. But it would just go hand in hand with cutting back the quality from technics and sanitary rooms, which means terrible sound and back to Dixies. We did not want that. Next thought was, getting more audience with a murder billing. But it's not so easy to do either. The bands play at lots of festivals which sprout everywhere. Normally, at least the travel costs should be paid to the bands, which sounds easy but just have a look at petrol prices, prices for rent-a-car and flights. So sometimes it's not even possible to pay the travel costs. On the other hand, some bands and/or their agencies have illusions about their fees, that are not affordable for a Fuck The Commerce. In this point we had to make a lot of disappointing experiences. So we realized more and more, that we cannot continue that way."

Fuck The Commerce XII will be held May 20-23, 2009 at K17 in Berlin, Germany. Confirmed bands so far are DEBAUCHERY, ASS TO MOUTH, HACKNEYED, CLITEATER, HYMEN HOLOCAUST and MY FIRST BAND.

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