Comments on: Blasterbra Dropped From Road to V! http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker/2008/04/28/blasterbra-dropped-from-road-to-v/ Offbeat Irish Music Photoblog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:32:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 By: nay http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker/2008/04/28/blasterbra-dropped-from-road-to-v/#comment-907 nay Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:57:32 +0000 http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker/2008/04/28/blasterbra-dropped-from-road-to-v/#comment-907 Yup I'd say he was bitter all right. The first stipulation in the V T&Cs demands all acts are resident in the United Kingdom. Great as it for Blasterbra to make it to the final, someone at V should have seen this coming and stepped in to avoid confusion. As it is, the band earned their place fair and square in competition with the other bands. I can understand V disqualifying them when it was pointed out and made an issue but if the admin'd been doing their job properly, it wouldn't have come to this. Still, they got themselves noticed. I woulda raised hell :p Yup I’d say he was bitter all right.

The first stipulation in the V T&Cs demands all acts are resident in the United Kingdom. Great as it for Blasterbra to make it to the final, someone at V should have seen this coming and stepped in to avoid confusion.
As it is, the band earned their place fair and square in competition with the other bands. I can understand V disqualifying them when it was pointed out and made an issue but if the admin’d been doing their job properly, it wouldn’t have come to this.

Still, they got themselves noticed. I woulda raised hell :p

]]> By: smur89 http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker/2008/04/28/blasterbra-dropped-from-road-to-v/#comment-906 smur89 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:47:59 +0000 http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker/2008/04/28/blasterbra-dropped-from-road-to-v/#comment-906 oooo not a good topic. im staying out of this one! oooo not a good topic. im staying out of this one!

]]> By: Leigh O'Gorman http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker/2008/04/28/blasterbra-dropped-from-road-to-v/#comment-904 Leigh O'Gorman Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:20:13 +0000 http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker/2008/04/28/blasterbra-dropped-from-road-to-v/#comment-904 Oh and I forgot to ask, this one chap on the V boards - not a bitter non-qualifier, per chance? Oh and I forgot to ask, this one chap on the V boards - not a bitter non-qualifier, per chance?

]]> By: Leigh O'Gorman http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker/2008/04/28/blasterbra-dropped-from-road-to-v/#comment-903 Leigh O'Gorman Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:18:41 +0000 http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker/2008/04/28/blasterbra-dropped-from-road-to-v/#comment-903 It's an absolute shame for the band and while it really is unfortunate that V didn't think to apply their rules at the initial stage, I'm sure it would have stated it in the terms and conditions of the form (Personally I don't know as I haven't read them) On an unrelated point, it irritates me how a number of people here the UK say I'm "Southern Ireland" as if the Republic makes up a tiny portion I also raised eyebrows at a few folk that thought that Dublin was the capital of Northern Ireland Obviously I know geography isn't everyone's strong point, but come on like.... It’s an absolute shame for the band and while it really is unfortunate that V didn’t think to apply their rules at the initial stage, I’m sure it would have stated it in the terms and conditions of the form
(Personally I don’t know as I haven’t read them)

On an unrelated point, it irritates me how a number of people here the UK say I’m “Southern Ireland” as if the Republic makes up a tiny portion
I also raised eyebrows at a few folk that thought that Dublin was the capital of Northern Ireland
Obviously I know geography isn’t everyone’s strong point, but come on like….

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