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Creative Brighton Debate

Brighton Festival

Turns out this did not do exactly what it said on the tin for this was a debate that lacked in, well, debate. The three speakers, who between them represented the new media departments of Channel 4, Universal Records and The Guardian, were all eloquent and evidently clued-up about the digital age but the fact that all are employed by institutions facing similar problems, ie firmly established but needing to adapt rapidly to technology that changes quicker than a chameleon on speed, meant that each of the speakers were also facing similar problems and so had similar experiences to recount. If we had been given the opportunity to hear from a diverse selection of individuals for whom the digital age represents a range of different scenarios, we would have been much more likely to have been rewarded with a fresh and thought-provoking discussion.

Pavilion Theatre, 7 May, 7:30pm, £7.50, fpp 32

tw rating: 2/5

published: Aug-2008

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