TimR

A breach of the peace is something else.

Somewhat of an overreaction. Resetting the fire alarm won't result in any liability. It shouldn't allow you to reset it if a break glass or smoke head has been activated.

That falls into unreasonable expectations in my book. I back onto a pub car-park. We get doors slammed, occasionally people fighting, lots of noise as people arrive and leave during the Sunday lunch rush, a bit of noise carry from the garden on the other side of the carpark. Most of it can be easily ignored. One day some of the locals decided to move one of the benches down the carpark outside my fence (because it was jn the sun), started swearing and throwing cigarettes over the fence. That is not reasonable. That resulted in a robust face to face confrontation where I was told "You moved next to a pub, what do you expect?", and I told them (the above), explaining that I moved next to a pub carpark, not a pub, and that my small children were listening to the swearing, and having cigarettes thrown at them and their trampoline. Some red-faces, sweary people apologised and moved the bench back into the pub garden. But some people are really over-sensitive and a precident has been set where pubs have been refused licences. Bad reporting in the press has resulted in people thinking they have the right to complain about reasonable noise.

If the owners of The Venue were honest with themselves, it wasn't a suitable place for loud concerts, and spending 10s of thousands of pounds on soundproofing was short-sighted. Ultimately, the financial crash of 2008 was what bought them down.

I went to see Iron Maiden at the London Stadium last month. It was loud, but not overbearing. They had a 10pm curfew. They just started a bit earlier. Contrast that with their Hammersmith Odeon gigs in the 80s, my ears were still ringing 3 days later. I always take my earbuds to gigs now (even pub gigs) and I had to wear them at a recent gig at the Underworld in Camden. They shouldn't really be necessary if we are honest with each other.

Those things are 'reasonably expected'. You expect a music venue to make a reasonable amount of noise. As I said upthead, a lot of these venues make unreasonable amounts of noise well into the early hours of the morning, during the week and on Sundays.

And allowing pubs to spill put into the street in city centres is one thing, but in an area where there is housing, without the landlord being expected to control rowdy behaviour is another. Having people eating, drinking and talking all week outside your front door is one thing. Having people shouting and swearing is another. Again, it's about what is reasonably expected.

It's a case of the level of noise that is reasonably expected. If I moved next to a pub that played music, I'd expect music at certain times of the week and at a certain level. Bands are getting louder and venues are staying open later. There are developers that do stupid things like build retirement flats next to music venues, that kind of thing should be thrown back to the developers to fix. But we know developers vanish with regularity for a new company to spring up in their places. It's far more complex and nuanced than; buy a place near a pub and you should expect trouble and noise, just put up with it.

Plastic. That's the only information I have on mine. It's been OK for 25 years, so probably not nylon.

Some people can suck the fun and cause drama wherever you turn. And there are people who want to control everything without taking anyone's feelings into consideration. If it's not a job, that shouldn't be happening. I'm having the same issues in another thing I do for fun. Politics. Good luck.

Singer with no sense of time, and a tambourine.

You can never have too much cowbell.

Year started playing: 1986 Number of basses: 1 (3 if you count the spare bass and the one in the loft, neither of which I ever play) Music theory: 8 (What's all that mode stuff about?) Technique: 5 (No slap, no pick) Groove: 7 (I spent too much time fighting against a bad drummer.)

This was before the disaster at Donnington '88. Everything changed then. It was amateurish. The PA was supplied by Malcolm Hill, who made all the equipment. https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/inside-the-live-sound-of-live-aid-part-1-london Howard Jones was told that the keys on the piano were sticking so he had to give them a good bash to free them up first. The flooring was mainly plastic, with some reinforcement where vehicles would drive. Crowd control would have been non-existent.

We changed to a female vocalist about 6 years ago. Got rid of all the old staid 'Dad Rock' stuff and now play Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Dua Lipa, etc. It is great fun coming up with arrangements that a power trio can pull off. No synth, brass, strings or backing singers, but the rhythm, lyrics, melody and chords are there and it works.

Seems to work. Same as wedding gigs, over pub gigs, and a lot of things in life. Charge a lot more and do less of them. There was a recent post about having a setup done here regarding prices going up. Charge more, be more selective.

My freind owns something similar. The higher quality and thus higher price you can charge, the more profits you make on each sale, the better the clientele, the better staff you can employ, which in turn attracts more better clientele, means that the place stays smart and clean. It refreshing when people have vision that isn't high turnover, low margin, low quality, quick profit. There are enough high street coffee shops doing that.

I did something similar, although I spent 2 years working temp jobs where I could just not turn up and so I was able to do occasional midweek promo gigs with the band. Eventually being practically penniless, not gigging enough take their toll. I didn't have high enough musical qualifications to teach or play in a professional orchestra or show, so a career I suspect 'musical career' for most of us is the what is now known as a 'side hussle'. Part of my career has been travelling the world staying in different hotels and being away from home for months at a time. It's not as glamourous as people think, and that's the life of a gigging 'career' musician.

My fretless is a bass I defretted myself as an experiment. The neck was unstable, it still is. The electronics were noisy, they still are. It's in the loft, so doesn't get played. I've been tempted several times to get a proper one, but not pulled the trigger on anything yet.

Watched a lot of it at my freind's house, drinking Carlesburg. We were going to France next day to do a load of cycling. We were only 16! Wonder how many 16 year olds would be touring France on their own on bikes nowadays. Remember waiting ages to watch Madonna, who was a big new star that everyone was talking about and only had a handful of hits up to that point. What struck me watching on Saturday was most acts only played 3 or 4 songs. Tony Hadley looked young!

You won't set anything on fire or blow anything up. The speakers will easily handle the power from that amp if you use it sensibly. The PV range of amps have output protection so cut-out before over current. On this one there's a reset, on others you have to wait for it to cool down and reset. Just watch you're not driving the amp into clipping as this will damage things. Adjust the input sensitivity with the main volume on low, while listening for distortion.

Rod Stuart is working for the council filling in potholes isn't he?

If it's a one man band working from a home based workshop, their prices will be a lot lower. However, if other technicians in the area are a lot more expensive they'll probably find they're being overwhelmed and supply and demand being what it is, they'll put their prices up. Don't forget prices to import things has gone up a lot recently due to various factors.

They're staying in seperate hotels miles apart... A breakup would hardly be 'unforseen'.