RocKwiz Urges Punters To Stay In: ‘Going Out To Gigs Is Scary’
News posted Monday, July 2 2012 at 09:00 AM.
Related: Rockwiz.
Why go out and see a band when you can stay home and watch a music quiz show?
This is the crux of a promo for the new series of SBS’ RocKwiz, which airs nationally on July 7. The clip features a trio of punters being chased out of a pub by zombie hipsters. “Face it: going out to see gigs is pretty scary now,” booms the voiceover guy in an ominous voice. “Escape the hipster apocalypse – stay in and rock with RocKwiz. The best gig in town is at home.”
Playing into the kind of unfounded hysteria that lead to a link between live music and alcohol-related violence, the clip comes at a very precarious time for Australia’s live music scene, with venues including Melbourne’s East Brunswick Club, Phoenix Public House and The Palace, Adelaide’s Jade Monkey, Brisbane’s The Tivoli and Sydney’s The Basement either closed or up for sale.
Some have taken to Facebook to air their “disgust” with the ad, urging viewers to lodge a complaint via the SBS’ website. “Your local live bands invest a huge amount of time and money into entertaining the community and it is hard enough to get a crowd out to a gig as it is without ads such as this raising the middle finger to musicians and fans alike,” wrote one user.
Another said they won’t be watching the show again: “Yeah, it's bloody shameful. Sure there are a lot of awful hipster bands about, but the idea we'd be better off staying home and watching telly is exactly why the garbage prevails. This ad was created by people who care not one whit about music. RocKwiz has lost a fan and viewer.”
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So you watched the shark autopsy thing last night too?
I always suspected that it was somehow Julia Zemiro's fault that no one ever comes to see my band, and now I know for sure.
haha
Also in advertising news, if you apparently spray Lynx all over your body, women will flock to you, no matter how ugly you are.
I'm embarrassed for people who think this is a big deal.
''Playing into the kind of unfounded hysteria that lead to a link between live music and alcohol-related violence.''
Are you saying that the government might now link live music to flesh eaters who are high on 'bath salts'?
facebook: helping people blow things out of proportion since 2004.
the ads sorta funny, however the sentiment is sorta shitty, everyone should have a beer and chillax and get on with their lives.
Music stopped for rockwiz watchers around 1988 anyway.
this.
oh, and 'this' stopped for m&n-ers in 2011, right?
'this' is eternal, like 3am.
jesus guys, get a sense of humour
You can get high on bath salts?
where can i get a gram of radox
.... am about to scrub myself with dead sea magic mineral amazing minerals skin polish. Or am i meant to bathe in it to get high? Heck I'll do both.
ANCIENTS OF MU MU!!!!
just clean your balls, guys
About time there was a rockwiz backlash. Terrible show terrible terrible terrible show.
yeah, except they knew it would have this sort of reaction and engineer all this extra press. terrible show though, i agree.
somebody screen-write the tv commercial bashing on losers who stay at home on a Saturday night watching SBS?
I hope they realised that if people take the mesasage to heart there'll be a huge attendance drop at the next RocKwiz Live Spectacular.
If ever there was a Melbourne music mafia it's that fucking drummer from things of stone and wood and his mates. I hate st Kilda just for this show and the barbareeba s well.
Lol. :)
i didn't know he was in TOSAW. will google!
Isn't it Tony fucking Floyd? He was two years above me at school. He's shit.
LOL
i had never seen that 'clean yr balls' ad til today. wow. just wow.
yep -all music guide says Tony Floyd
Hard to believe that nerd Tony Floyd carries such weight in the local industry. It saddens me and drives me to McDonalds.
oh - rockwizz drummer is Peter Luscombe from memory
Oh yeah. Well at least I got to whinge about Tony Floyd. Let's not get started on the luscombe lot. That's like getting stuck into Billy Hyde.
Likewise on Spicks and Specks. What's with that?
Rockwiz has been known to keep me sane, when everything is superalienating. Mind you I gun hipsters pretty inoffensive. The only criticism I would have of them is that they seemed detached and manequin like. I can't readily access their personalities though they are pleasant enough to me at least.
Rockwiz has been known to keep me sane, when everything is superalienating. Mind you I gun hipsters pretty inoffensive. The only criticism I would have of them is that they seemed detached and manequin like. I can't readily access their personalities though they are pleasant enough to me at least.
Typo..damn phone. ..I think hipdsters are pretty inoffensive.
The one feature about Hipsters I can get annoyed about is the way they hate on anything remotely popular, a bit like some M+N users posting “I HATE THIS” sentiments to every M+N news feature.
Agreed Ralph, it devalues the word too. 'Hate' is a ridiculously strong word to use for things that only deserve mild disdain.
I reserve mild disdain for both this Rockwiz ad and the beat-up article above.
Remember when apathy was more of a hipster trait?
***Except for their national tour they mean.
I still have not been to a Rockwiz taping for some reason.
Hah, I hope you're joking!? Tony has done more than enough for the industry. There's a very good reason why he is so sort after.
Rockwiz peaked when I was in the audience and I knew the answers to all the questions but was too gutless to audition to be a contestant.
Understandable, cameras are scarry.