Word: bandness
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...Matt [Mahan] and I told them that we needed money for a band or we would think of reassessing our relationship with Springfest,” Blickstead says. “That was our way of saying that we would break off with Springfest if they didn’t give us money for a band...
...When the Office of the President initially approached us, our immediate reaction was to want them to give all of their money to getting a big-name band,” Lee says. “But that was just a wishful-thinking kind of mentality. When we sat down and discussed it, we realized their goal was about community, not a concert...
Although the Verve Pipe did end up playing the event, the administration announced the following year that a professional band would not be allowed to perform at the upcoming Springfest. The UC could organize their own concert, but it would have to happen somewhere else, at another time. Since then, the University has not backed down on this policy...
With McCambridge in charge of finding a band, Glazer and Epstein focused their efforts on planning the after-party...
...said. “It was just so striking to us that in the shadow of the world’s greatest university and a few blocks from Brattle Street and million-dollar homes that you had this band of runaways and drifters...