Discrimination

We already have one of you on the bill

I was told my set was one of the strongest they had seen that year. I was also told, in the same conversation and in a completely friendly tone, that the festival already had someone like me on the bill, so it would be strange to programme us both.

There were forty-one acts. Two of us fit whatever category he had in his head. He said it as though he were explaining a shipping constraint.