Whats the relationship between the Madison Fest event held last spring and the pop festival?
Danny and I both worked on the last one. Danny, while studying abroad in Asia, thought about doing something on a smaller scale in Madison that would kind of be an analogue to South by Southwest. The music committee also does a kind of punk rock event called Watch the World Explode, but some people also just call that Madison Fest, too. There was also a Web site that used the name Madison Fest. So just to avoid confusion, we changed the name. It’s not meant to be pop in the classic sense, more just like ‘popular.’ The last one had panels and workshops, what about this one? The artists this year are kind of bigger and a little higher up on the food chain, and it’s just hard to cajole them into doing it. Especially when you talk to their agents kind of agree to it and then you talk to the tour manager and they’re a little warier and then you talk to the artist and they maybe feel like it’s kind of being sprung on them. So, we’re trying to do some panels, but we don’t know if it’s going t
