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THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, Part 1 – TEARAWAY
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For Blink, aka Ian Jorgensen, relaunching the A Low Hum tours with more all-age gigs is about inspiring young people.
“There are plenty of opportunities for teenagers to see cheesy radio rock bands playing at their school or radio sponsored all-age shows, but aside from the punk scene, there is little opportunity for young people to see bands that will blow their minds,” he says.
Taking bands on tour that don’t usually play all-age gigs, Blink believes, will give young people an opportunity to see the possibilities there are with original music.
This theory was road-tested in December last year with bands So So Modern and Teenwolf, and the reaction of the all-age audience was predictable for Blink.
“Everyone was running around after the show, totally blown away by it; the kids there all saw how keyboards could actually be cool and I’m sure a bunch ran home to pull their old Christmas pressie keyboards out of the closet.”
This month’s A Low Hum tour will be heading into unchartered territory – some all-age gigs on the tour will be held in bars, such as Wellington’s Bar Bodega.
“It’s important that bars actually make the effort to start putting on all-age shows there,” Blink reckons.
“That is part of the excitement of going to a good all-age show, going somewhere you normally can’t go.”