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Keep on rocking the unreal world (News, The Guardian)
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Saturday, 30 June 2007 |
The Secondfest music festival is bringing together big-name groups like the Pet Shop Boys with musicians like Slim Warrior who have never played a gig outside of the online world of Second Life
By Aleks Krotoski
This weekend's Secondfest music festival in the online world Second Life may seem counterintuitive for those who've just scraped off the last scraps of mud from Glastonbury. After all, sitting at the computer listening to tunes can't begin to replace the sights, sounds and, frankly, smells of three days in the real-life muck surrounded by hundreds of thousands of scantily clad festival fairies, neon nu-ravers and crusty rainbow elders. But the event, presented by The Guardian and Intel and programmed by the same people who are in charge of the musical fare for Glastonbury, V and other heavy hitters in the summer scene, are keen to introduce the world to the hard-working, home-grown talents who spend their virtual lives performing inside this online space.
READ IT ALL HERE:
http://music.guardian.co.uk...
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