Hello PanoPeople!!
Quite a long time you haven't been getting news from Panoplie, isn't it?
Well, here we are: we didn't disappear!! And we will go on bringing you great live music in Luxembourg, you can still count on us.
We have only decided to.. slow down a bit, meaning that we want to organise less events, but bigger ones!!
This mail to explain you the situation in the most transparent way, as usual.
During the first 4 years of Panoplie, we have organised nearly 50 events: it has been great, but it really wasn't possible to go on like that.
First of all because, as you know, this is not a job, for us, but a pure passion: this means, amongst others, that our resources are limited, not only in terms of money, but also of time, energy..
But the most important reason is another: when we created Panoplie, Luxembourg had just a couple of concert venues, and not so many gigs around, normally.
People was demanding live music a lot, so it was the right situation to organise, in average, one event par month.
Nowadays, the offer of live music has exploded, in the Grand-Duchy: lots of venues, tons of concerts.. sometimes even too many!
Good example can be last November 18th: Midlake & John Grant at den Atelier, Gaëtan Roussel at Rockhal, Giardini di Mirò at d:qliq.. plus another couple in smaller places! It was really hard to know where to go, and in the end all of the gigs suffered a bit from this.
We obviously are happy of this development, but it forces us to focus our energies.
What will be the future of Panoplie, then?
We will continue to organise Panoplie Italian Nights (our yearly festival, in June), and add to this a couple of events par year.
And this is the good occasion to announce.. PANOPLIE ITALIAN NIGHTS V !!
The 5th edition will take place at Exit07 (Friday, June 10th) and d:qliq (Saturday, June 11th): note it on your new agenda!!
We can't yet tell you the line-up, but.. IT'S GONNA BE HUGE.
We'll let you know more soon, through this mailing list, as well as this blog.
Let us wish you a really Happy New Year!!
Cheers
Panoplie Team
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