Should this forum be rebranded?

[teamsaint]

Can people point to some really successful and popular rebranding?

Usually costs about £1bn also.

[Old Grumpy]

Can people point to some really successful and popular rebranding?

Er, Snickers?


What was wrong with Marathon, anyway?

And don't get me going on Opal Fruits!

[cloughie]

Can people point to some really successful and popular rebranding?

Usually costs about £1bn also.

ts I often look at what comes up with rebranding and it would be better to offer a £50 prize to a local primary school to come up with a good idea. Charities seem to pay fortunes for lousy logos!

[MrGongGong]

I've always thought of the people on these boards as virtual friends. Real friends, even if they start being friends because of a mutual interest (as is presumably the case here) don't normally confine their conversation to that interest alone. I'd assumed it was the same here.

Even though we don't always agree with each other
the basic interest in music is what is worth keeping



The whole branding thing is cr*p anyway

When I work at the RFH the technicians STILL call it the Chelsfield room NOT the "Level 5 function room sponsored by....."
and the Floral Hall at the ROH is still that in spite of the sponsorship deal

or maybe EVERYTHING in the arts is going to be the Claw.... (insert name as needed) ?

[Tony Halstead]

Thanks VERY much, aeolium, for this wonderful posting.

Personally I would find the forum very unsatisfying if discussion were held to the strict and narrow path of R3 programmes (as some hardline moderators on the old BBC boards attempted futilely to enforce some years back).

Fortunately there are other R3s apart from the shabby and rather degraded reality we currently live with. There are the R3s of people's memories (going back to the Third Programme) with the many great musicians, thinkers, poets, playwrights from earlier periods. And there are the R3s of people's imaginations - what a radio station devoted to music and the arts might be like. Both these worlds, of memory and imagination, are more interesting to me than what R3 now provides, and perhaps that is why we see those who post on these boards seeking out other sources of stimulation whether from other internet radio stations, live concerts and operas, their own music collections, exhibitions etc.

And although people grumble about the intrusion of discussions about politics and how we live (and ought to live) onto what they claim is a music forum I think those discussions are - or at least could be - absolutely in the spirit of the original Third Programme, and even its successor R3, that music ought not to be separated from the rest of life and the questions that surround it.

[Karafan]

Chicken and egg?

I'd say it's Radio 3 that has left its audience to pursue pastures new...

Nail struck firmly upon its head, there FF.....

[Roehre]

Personally I would find the forum very unsatisfying if discussion were held to the strict and narrow path of R3 programmes (as some hardline moderators on the old BBC boards attempted futilely to enforce some years back).

Fortunately there are other R3s apart from the shabby and rather degraded reality we currently live with. There are the R3s of people's memories (going back to the Third Programme) with the many great musicians, thinkers, poets, playwrights from earlier periods. And there are the R3s of people's imaginations - what a radio station devoted to music and the arts might be like. Both these worlds, of memory and imagination, are more interesting to me than what R3 now provides, and perhaps that is why we see those who post on these boards seeking out other sources of stimulation whether from other internet radio stations, live concerts and operas, their own music collections, exhibitions etc.

And although people grumble about the intrusion of discussions about politics and how we live (and ought to live) onto what they claim is a music forum I think those discussions are - or at least could be - absolutely in the spirit of the original Third Programme, and even its successor R3, that music ought not to be separated from the rest of life and the questions that surround it.

I couldn't have put this better, let alone more eloquently

[Serial_Apologist]

Even though we don't always agree with each other
the basic interest in music is what is worth keeping



The whole branding thing is cr*p anyway

When I work at the RFH the technicians STILL call it the Chelsfield room NOT the "Level 5 function room sponsored by....."
and the Floral Hall at the ROH is still that in spite of the sponsorship deal

or maybe EVERYTHING in the arts is going to be the Claw.... (insert name as needed) ?

Ah - The Bore Claw Room...

Fantastic posts - no need for re-branding. In life, nothing can be isolated from anything else, everything is interconnected, said the Buddha. or someone.

[EdgeleyRob]

Great posts 11 & 12.
Thanks Mary and Aeolium.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Great posts 11 & 12.
Thanks Mary and Aeolium.

[Gordon]

I'm with Mary and Aeolium too!! Well said. If R3 is about music and the arts it should be stimulating discussion of all sorts. If the Arts are not about contemporary life then what are they?

If R3 itself can go all over the place inanely asking for Tweets and the like then we can match that!! We're only following their lead after all .

Anyone showing up here can see that we're not all loonies with hair shirts [well I haven't got one!] and can have some fun as well as being serious about our main cause.

[french frank]

I thought the old complaint of "It's too red" was going to surface again - I've forgotten how to change that anyway

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

it is too red

[french frank]

it is too red

It isn't. This is too red:


Courtesy Alphonse Allais

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

That looks orange to me.