Inkanta
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Posted: June 04 2001, 15:03 |
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It would be interesting to undertake a study.
Are many of Mike's fans really aging hippies in their 50s? Are they Dark Star readers who don't use the internet? Here, the average age might be 25 and male (I'd be hard-pressed to even attempt a country or continent for that matter!), but would this hold up if statistics involving non-wired fans were included?
I seem to be a female-type person and no longer 25 (but no, not an aging 50+ hippie, either!). Those whom I know "in real life" that listen to MO (yeah, there are a few--even here in the mid-western USA) are between 34 and 51. But yes--they tend to be male. TB & the Exorcist are both early 70's--if then, like now and I have the demographics right which I may not, movie-goers & those more likely to purchase music were under 30--add 25 years to that, and you have some rather aged MO fans (she says this gleefully, but won't be so gleeful when it happens to her...).
The older you are, the less likely you are to use computers to locate Mike Oldfield in cyberspace. Of course, that's changing. I know several libraries that offer computer and internet courses for senior citizens. <-;
I am just happy to see Mike's music spanning the generations!
BTW, I stopped at a fast-food restaurant while driving through rural Ohio a few days after the Wembley concert in '99, sporting a Mike Oldfield t-shirt. One of the workers, mid-30's, spotted it and was so thrilled to know Mike was still making music that I wrote down a couple of website addies for her. Days before at the Wembley concert I had sat next to two women in their mid-20's, who were from Scotland. One had a tubular bell tattooed on her shoulder, but did not use a computer to access information about Mike's music.
So....I suspect fans are out there all over the place. Perhaps to reach the non-Internet, non-Dark Star segment--which could be the largest--we need to mount surveys that are in a packet (i.e., like coupons with gummy strips on the top)--and place the surveys in areas that non-wired folks frequent--grocery stores, record stores, libraries, etc. ???
Hmm... now to get funding <-;
M-C
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