I'd be interested in all of your opinions on the post I made in response to Swoz's Canal Club not getting a very good turn out...
Sadly I had a feeling this might happen, for a number of reasons. Sunday's never been the best day to hold an event, it wasn't so bad when we were kids and could do Wigan then the Locarno straight after and still get up for work the next day, but it's changed from drugs to alcohol and people who like to drink generally don't like getting up early next morning.
Swoz you needed to get maps of the venue posted up, I still don't know where it is or where car parks are, I only think I know roughly where it is.
Thirdly, I have said to you and I say it to any of the other local promotors that I will advertise your events free of charge on my mailing list, I won't do this for anyone else except locals, guess how many people have asked me to advertise? None, thats how many.
I think we all have to face up to the fact that in this area there are too many chiefs and not enough indians. People can't keep setting up venue after venue and expect them to be a success because there are just not enough punters to go around, and people don't have the money or the time to go somewhere every weekend unless the kids have flown the nest.
The most successful and long running night around here is, I think, Goodyears. How, I don't know, because the music policy is hardly ground breaking, but I noticed the last time I was there that it wasn't about the music, it was packed out because of the social side of things. If people set up a venue around here playing newies, obscurities, cheapies and rare oldies, you've got no f*cking chance because there's just nobody who will support this type of venue.
Also, there can't be that many venues left to try can there?
So Goodyears, Max's do, maybe one or two others will survive because they have their audience, anything else I'm afraid is doomed to failure and I think local promoters may as well face up to this, oldies rule the area ever since the Vic closed.