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    Attendance Concerns

    in General Discussion

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    12 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

    you need to go and play places where there is

    We'd kind of spotted that...

    The nearest we play to home is Hereford (nearly an hour away) where we get a decent audience. However, if you just bimble a bit further into town there's a venue called Gordon Bennetts which gets absolutely rammed. And it's full of pissed up folks singing along to "Wonderwall" and the like. Those same people wouldn't dream of going to see a band they hadn't heard of in a grassroots venue because they wouldn't hear anything they knew, without realising that those same grassroots venues are the places that gave the likes of Oasis their first gigs.

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    Attendance Concerns

    in General Discussion

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    In some places it's almost impossible to find an audience for an originals band...

    Frinstance, round here there's no proper venues and folks don't seem want to come out  - I remember seeing an awesome prog band rather weirdly playing in my local boozer (I'm not really a prog fan, but these guys were just serious quality musicians). There were 4 of us in there and maybe 50 outside completely ignoring the band - it wasn't loud so that wasn't it. One of the outside folks actually came up to me and asked what they were like rather than staying and listening for himself.

    As a result, any originals bands will never get a local audience because locals won't see anything they don't know already so it's a proper Catch 22.

    However, when "Lady DJ" comes to the same pub to play all the hits it's absolutely rammed with drunken folks singing along to all those songs I can't stand.

     

    Basschatters' Upcoming Gigs

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    Posted · Edited by Leonard Smalls

    A week after the rare Weeds gig in Chester, I'll be with  Choked in Hereford with crazed rave-noisesters A-Noise and excellent old skool punks MC16... Free entry too!

     

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