Bangkok Rock Festival 2007 Cancelled Due To Alcohol Ban

[jumnien]

What's all this drivel about the alcohol advertising ban. This thread is about a rock concert being cancelled! Jazz is a musical genre, who cares if they have corporate sponsorship? Same with classical music. If it's sponsored by adult pampers or rot gut vodka who cares?

But Rock and Roll is a religion, a spiritual way of life. Corporate sponsorship has no place in religious matters. You don't see Durex sponsoring the Pope's Asia tour do you?

Rise up and shout hallelujah! We can have Rock and Roll without liquor companies picking the bands.

[nrp1000]

This is so dumb - as it is in any other country that implements such things - advertising does not in my view make people drink, smoke or do anything else - advertising is about persuading people to choose one brand instead of another! If food advertising was banned would it stop people from eating!!!

Alcohol, cigarette and drug abuse and even the selliing of sex are all symptoms of real problems like poverty, poor education, lack of work, boredom and frustration with life in general - until these issues are tackled alcohol and other abuses will be rife even if people end up distilling it themeselves in the backyards. No one has ever succeeded in dealing with this kind of problem with bans.

It is of course face saving and a government trying to show it is doing something - the only real answer ot this is to ensure the wealth of the country is distributed more fairly to give hope to young people - but that of course means taking from the rich.........and who are the politicians?

To be fair this isnt just a Thai problem - I cant think of one democratic government which has been brave enough to tackle the real issues

[pap]

What's all this drivel about the alcohol advertising ban. This thread is about a rock concert being cancelled! Jazz is a musical genre, who cares if they have corporate sponsorship? Same with classical music. If it's sponsored by adult pampers or rot gut vodka who cares?

But Rock and Roll is a religion, a spiritual way of life. Corporate sponsorship has no place in religious matters. You don't see Durex sponsoring the Pope's Asia tour do you?

Rise up and shout hallelujah! We can have Rock and Roll without liquor companies picking the bands.

Ok ....after the rock is a religion point...you win . You have finally come up with an argument I can't counter.

In the overall scheme of the advertising ban it probably is irrelavant. Thailand could use a little help on its alcohol abuse anyway. Would be better to approach it differently though but I guess something is better than nothing. Legistlating Morality didn't work for the founders of your religion though.