** The 15th South East Bass Bash - Sunday 12 November 2023 **

[bassace97]

Is there any news about a spring SE Bass Bash? 

[cetera]

Not yet, sorry...

[cetera]

Contact has been re-established with the school (staff turnover/changes in all the relevant booking contacts). Hopefully some positive news soon.

[HMX]

It'd be lovely to make it this year. Praying I'm not struck down by naughty Norovirus again

[cetera]

Sadly a Spring bash is looking unlikely again, but will keep you all updated.

[silverfoxnik]

On 09/04/2025 at 09:59, cetera said:

Sadly a Spring bash is looking unlikely again, but will keep you all updated.

Hi Gary, 

 

Any thoughts or insights as to whether or not a September /October bash might be possible? 

[cetera]

11 minutes ago, silverfoxnik said:

Hi Gary, 

 

Any thoughts or insights as to whether or not a September /October bash might be possible? 

Working on a diff venue.

[silverfoxnik]

1 minute ago, cetera said:

Working on a diff venue.

Thanks Gary, 

 

That's understandable...

 

We've been very fortunate over the years to have been able to hold the Bash at the same site since 2009.

 

And it was excellent ; ample parking, great choice of rooms, reasonable location etc, etc. 

 

All good things come to an end I guess. 

[bassace97]

Is there any news in a SE Bass Bash later on in the year?

[cetera]

Sadly, due to venue issues and personal stuff it's looking very unlikely for this year

 

[NancyJohnson]

Let me pick up here.

 

I'd always thought setting one of these up should be pretty straightforward and I have capacity.  @prowla (Paul) has just been in contact - we're local to each other AND both @jonno1981 and @ceteralive about a mile from me.

 

How would everyone feel if me and @prowla tried to sort something out?

 

Proposal would be (possibly) St Sebastians Memorial Hall, Crowthorne (see details below).  There's a map/link below.  We'd need to hire for say six hours (10-4pm) on a Saturday @ £25.00 an hour.  I honestly can't remember what Colin used to charge for entry (was it £10?), so 15 attendees and we'd have a enough to cover the hire fee.  I'm sure we could rope on the Barry at the Bass Centre and get enough stuff together for a raffle etc.  It's a big room and it has a little stage if we do another shoot-out etc.

 

The hall is remore enough so as not to annoy people.  Easy connections M3/M4, closest train is Crowthorne (on the Wokingham and Guildford mainline).  I'd be happy to do pickups from the station (I'm sure others would as well.  @neepheid (I think) may be kipping down at mine.

 

Anyone interested?

 

 

https://wokinghamwithout-pc.gov.uk/facility-hire/st-sebastians-memorial-hall

 

[Wombat]

I’d be interested.

[cetera]

Thanks mate, appreciate it. Ideally you want somewhere with e.g. 3 rooms as lots of bassists all in one cavernous room playing over each other is a recipe for disaster....

[neepheid]

Date depending, of course, but I'd be interested, aye.

[Wolverinebass]

Interested of course!

[Richard R]

Definitely interested. 

[NancyJohnson]

45 minutes ago, cetera said:

Thanks mate, appreciate it. Ideally you want somewhere with e.g. 3 rooms as lots of bassists all in one cavernous room playing over each other is a recipe for disaster....

 

The hall can hold 90...it might just need to be a bit different.

[Merton]

Interested! Whilst multiple rooms would be the ideal, in the absence of that I’m sure we can come up with a cool event with a slightly different spin, as @NancyJohnson says

 

[prowla]

1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said:

Let me pick up here.

 

I'd always thought setting one of these up should be pretty straightforward and I have capacity.  @prowla (Paul) has just been in contact - we're local to each other AND both @jonno1981 and @ceteralive about a mile from me.

 

How would everyone feel if me and @prowla tried to sort something out?

 

Proposal would be (possibly) St Sebastians Memorial Hall, Crowthorne (see details below).  There's a map/link below.  We'd need to hire for say six hours (10-4pm) on a Saturday @ £25.00 an hour.  I honestly can't remember what Colin used to charge for entry (was it £10?), so 15 attendees and we'd have a enough to cover the hire fee.  I'm sure we could rope on the Barry at the Bass Centre and get enough stuff together for a raffle etc.  It's a big room and it has a little stage if we do another shoot-out etc.

 

The hall is remore enough so as not to annoy people.  Easy connections M3/M4, closest train is Crowthorne (on the Wokingham and Guildford mainline).  I'd be happy to do pickups from the station (I'm sure others would as well.  @neepheid (I think) may be kipping down at mine.

 

Anyone interested?

 

 

https://wokinghamwithout-pc.gov.uk/facility-hire/st-sebastians-memorial-hall

 

 

As per messages, I'm in!

[stevie]

1 hour ago, cetera said:

Thanks mate, appreciate it. Ideally you want somewhere with e.g. 3 rooms as lots of bassists all in one cavernous room playing over each other is a recipe for disaster....

 

This is true, and one of the reasons the SE Bash worked so well.

[NancyJohnson]

OK, started forming a queue.  I'll wait for the rental quote and hall availability dates to come through.

 

MODS!  Can you close this thread to comments and I'll start a new thread.

[MacDaddy]

1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said:

@neepheid (I think) may be kipping down at mine.

 

Anyone interested?

 

Yes, I'll crash at yours too thanks 😜

[prowla]

GOTO >>>>> 

 

[jonno1981]

Go on then! Yes, depending on final date, family commitments etc.

Thanks for starting this up Paul.

[TrevorR]

Count me in too!