That... was kind of sucky.

I just got back from the MMVAs (advantage #425654 of living downtown) and I have to say: in person it is total crap. Crappity crap crap craptacular crap. The main reason I went was because I'm total loser who doesn't have cable and I wanted to watch it, but couldn't :o So I figured, hey, why not just go and hang out an watch it live? Mistake.

First of all, it's full of idiot teenagers. I have nothing against teenagers in general, but this particular event was patronized EXCLUSIVELY by the idiot variety. Ugh, morons! All of them!

Secondly, it was waaaay too spread out. They had three stages:
1) on John St. between Queen and Richmond
2) in the parking lot
3) inside
The performances would alternate between the three, so if you wanted to watch them all, you had to keep on moving around the entire building in a big crowd. And of course, you'd be in the absolute back and unable to see anything. I stayed at the first stage and in the hour I was there, I only saw one performance (Billy Talent) and one presentation (whatever the last one was, w/ the OLP and Pilate folks) lol ZMP, they stood on the stage for like 5 min before the camera got on them and nobody in the crowd knew who the guys from Pilate were, and even after they George announced it, most ppl STILL had no clue :p :D

Thirdly, too much down time for the peeps outside. When the action wasn't near you, you couldn't watch the show. They didn't set up any big screens outside or anything, so it was the golden days of radio all over again. I was seriously reduced to watching the show play in the nearest cameraman's tiny black and white monitor. And like I said, everything was so spread out, 1/2 inside, 1/2 outside, and continually jumping from location to location, it was completely pointless to try to move and catch the action. So 9/10 of the time was just standing there doing nothing. At commercials they would cut the audio completely and it would just be listening to even more of the idiot teenagers. *groan* I just checked, they supposedly had 8 hosts. 8!!!!!!! Obviously no single one of them was particularly busy overall. You think that one of them could have come out once in a while during commercials or something and try to rile up the crowd. They're professional entertainers! Like they can't handle warming up a crowd. Uh... wait, no nm, they actually do suck at entertaining. They're all quite boring on air. So my new suggestion is: get some cheap ass city/much merch and throw it out to the crowd.

Fourth, I have to mention this as its own separate topic: Get a fucking screen outside so we can watch!!! OMG, it gets stupider the more I think about it. The people who are actualy there see the absolute LEAST of the show. I can tell you that for this reason, myself and most of the crowd was not at all lively during the Billly Talent performance. We all just kinda... stood there.

That is my warning to you all. Stick with your TVs. ;)

PS. Why is Much so white? Even the ethinc folk are really really pale. Bring back Master T!