Book a Space combo for your private party

[trev]

no licenses needed at private parties
...and what's your email addy john.  the list one is bouncing

trev

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From: "Jonathan Jarrett" <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:24 PM
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Subject: Re: Book a Space combo for your private party

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 05:26:53PM -0000, trev typed out:
>> Here is an idea which is catching on in the USA...House gigs
>>
>> In the states they are putting on full bands (Bigger houses and more 
>> space)
>> but to put a small relatively low-volume combo on at a party at home 
>> would
>> be a practical proposition over here.
>
> Actually some of the Disarray stuff that the late and lamented
> Larry Boyd sent me was recorded at such gigs. This means that there's
> two numbers where they get shut down by the police. One of them is
> especially good because the police gave them five minutes to play one
> more song so the band did two in the time. But yes! It seems to work, at
> times.
>
>> Nik and Harvey are one duo who might fill the bill
>> Trev and Kev of course who are tailor-made for such things
>> I'm sure that musicians like Ron Tree, Alan Davey, Jerry Richards etc 
>> would
>> have little trouble knocking a duo together if they wanted.
>
> Am I right in thinking that it does have to be a duo, however,
> because more than two musicians means you're into licensing issues? In
> the UK, I mean. There's a lot of pubs round here with *awful* duos whose
> entire business is founded on the fact that lots of places can't put on
> real bands. That said, any of the bunches you mention here could perform
> as a duo no problem. In fact the only one I haven't heard of doing so in
> the past is Alan (Harvey's played with Dibs as extra musician but can
> fill a stage solo, Jerry had Paradogs and Trev and Kev are of course
> legends in their own lifetime already). I just wish the pubs round here
> had as many decent musicians and/or freaks to draw on. Yours,
>        Jon
>
> n/p Luke Abbot - `On Tuesday'
> -- 
> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
>     (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
> Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>