@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle "Hoping you will please make an Honest Woman out of me" 26 November 2013
It is just over a year since I wrote the post “Lyndahere the truth please” on the 30 October 2012 asking for the truth about Lyndahere’s or Lynda Elstad's relationship with Alan Doyle and Great Big Sea. Great Big Sea XX had just begun and Lyndahere had received some tickets to an event she was unable to say where she got them from and bootlegging a CBC Great Big Sea special.
The Great Big Sea XX tour is over and Sean McCann will be leaving the band. Alan Doyle’s stance to Lyndahere’s fan behaviour has clearly relaxed and is even supported by the number of tweets she is now receiving. It is clearly his choice and I wish both of them the best of luck. Lyndahere is not an honest woman in my book and according to the law because she has continued to do a number of illegal activities in the Great Big Sea fandom. Because she gets away with it doesn't make it right or legal.
What is clear is all the members of Great Big Sea have different ideas about what is acceptable fan behaviour including bootlegging and piracy. Two of the members Bob Hallett and Sean McCann have never ever endorsed Lyndahere’s fan behaviour including her bootlegging and piracy.
'Lyndahere The Truth Please'published on 30 October 2012.
As the saying goes it is better to have loved and
lost than never to have loved at all. The same goes for being the fan of a
musician or music group. It is better to have been a fan and to experience
disappointment than never to have been a fan at all. So I am going to ask what
is the relationship between Lyndahere Great Big Sea and Alan Doyle? After the
events of last couple of weeks I am not really sure exactly what the relationship
between them all is.
It is typical of Lyndahere to undermine an
important event in the professional lives of Alan Doyle and Great Big Sea.
Yesterday was the launch of Great Big Sea XX. So I am not surprised when Lyndahere tweeted on Twitter she had gained access to a Great Big Sea
performance at an event associated with CBC music and Great Big Sea and made
videos. I find it interesting an organisation like CBC Music Canada who makes
official videos would allow a member of the public to create bootlegged
material at concerts associated with them. Something about having exclusive
rights comes to mind. Anyone who signs a contract with Great Big Sea or Alan
Doyle to make a video with an audience will know that it will be bootlegged
prior to or after being screened.
Lyndahere wrote on her Twitter site
@lyndahere MT
@CBC_Music ‘What am I doing here?” Watch @BlueRodeo and @Great_Big_Sea 30
October 2012
@rydunn Were you
there?I didn’t even hear about this show. 30 October 2012
@lyndhere Yes I don’t
think there were any public tickets for sale it was all a contest winners &
comps. See @CBC_Music for show video links. 30 October 2012
@rydunn Ah really eh!
How did you score ticket? 30 October 2012
@lyndahere The same
way most who suck at contests: Know someone who knows someone(It was
news/contest on BR.com too) 30 October 2012
@rydunn hah yes I
figured oh well I guess I’ll wait till Sunday to see them. 30 October 2012
@lyndahere And I’ve
got a few videos of my own I’ll put up after CBC put up theirs. (And when I get
a decent internet connection). 30 October 2012
@rydunn Um, make that
Bluerodeo.com. Apparently, BR.com is something else Oops. 30 October 2012
After checking the Twitter page of Blue Rodeo there
was no mention of a contest advertised. I find it interesting that a band would
not advertise a competition for its 25 anniversary show in Toronto. Lyndahere
states she got tickets to this event through someone she knows who knew
someone. Then all the seats available were not through a competition. I gather
there are regulations covering competitions in Canada in making them fair and
honest
When a competition for the Live at Revival filming
of Alan Doyle’s album was held on Twitter Lyndahere of course scored tickets.
A number of fake Twitter accounts were set up to win the tickets and retweeted. Lyndahere scored one of those tickets I would like to allege through an
account of a person who is allegedly a friend of hers Christina because she
never won them personally. Christina had only tweeted a couple of times when she
won those tickets. Lyndahere allegedly shares a house with her in St John’s
Newfoundland.
Earlier this year Lyndahere wrote on her Twitter
page she had attended corporate and private events including a birthday party
and made videos and taken pictures. There is no evidence to state that any
pictures taken and videos made were from those events. She has taken thousands
of pictures and videos of Alan Doyle and Great Big Sea.
It is of course not the first time a fan has
bragged about getting exclusive tickets to events that no other fans have
implying they may have a special relationship with the musician or group in
question. It is of course not the first time Lyndahere has not shared
information with other Great Big Sea fans. A coincidence I don’t think so.
There are just too many for someone not operating within the law and code of
ethics of fan behaviour. But then she is a skilled and seasoned stalker.
PS I do not live in Canada or North America so I
can’t go to any events held by Alan Doyle or Great Big Sea. I am not a
Newfoundlander.
