Hey up Mr C,
I'm a birthdays, anniversaries, Christmasses & bar mitzvahs type attendee these days as you know, and I remember the similarly slightly lean years of the late 80s when you were in between the crests of the waves of mod revivals. There was always a younger moddy element alongside the hardened soulie crew at the 100 Club and it was one of the differentiating factors from other niters further north when I was in my teens and twenties. It kept it slightly fresher and more fashionable, and perhaps it would be good to reconnect with that market. You've only got to look at the heaving queues for Crossfire or Hipshaker at the IOW Scooter Rally to see that the punters are there if they can be tempted away from psychotic freakdom.
We get to a couple of niters and maybe one soul night a month, and have no problem with travelling, but, like other people have said, we're presented with a veritable cornucopia of events, and London isn't always the most attractive destination. We live 25 miles south of the 100 Club, but can get to the Midlands in the same time it takes to get to you, with no traffic or parking issues. Mr Price is a dancer (after a fashion ) and you haven't got the space or the dancefloor for him to hurl himself about on, compared to the sprung maple expanses available elsewhere. So we have to have the social pull as well as the musical pilgrimage imperative to get us along.
Anyway, on a more shallow note, get some crumpet on the line-up; Adam, Molly, Franc, Baz - or the European ones; David Santiago, Daniel Dombrowe, Matt Fox, Alex from Bilbao, and me and the entourage will be down more often It's also been great to see you play out at some different places in the last year (Baltic, Rugby), and I was amazed at the number of folk who had never seen you DJ before and were really looking forward to your spots. I know you haven't got as much time as before, but you really are the best advert for the place, so accept a few more invitations if you can. If you went bi-monthly, maybe that would create the time and space to do it.
Tee x