Originally Posted by
buggyracer
Well folks i am a little disapointed in the replys to this thread to be very honest!
The holborn has been taken over in the last six months by people who are completely new to the trade and have spent a lot of money in renovating the place to make it virtually unrecognisable from the old holborn, i put this add up so the bar could create a porfolio of bands interested in playing in the bar and the bar could use this to have a new band every month at least and lets be honest if a band really wants to play the least they can do is make contact and make themselves known, i dont feel the onus is on the bar to chase bands to play? if they are keen enough surely the can make the contact?
To date they have had two bands play in the bar one a established band which was paid £300 but had a large number of members hence the £300 this is the price they asked and this is the price we paid, the other was a young band who hadnt played many gigs, who only asked for £180, but were excellent and were paid £200, hence the reason why i stated negotiable!
The bar is busy every weekend band or no band but variety is the spice of life!
I feel i should have put a post up asking oasis to play, i think it may have been easier and i would have got less greiff??
I hope this has cleared up a few things?, as i say i am dissapointed in the negative attitude shown in some posts as almost every other post in the music thread is complaining about the lack of venues, whilst here we have a good venue offering to pay good money yet all we have is critics!
i am not inolved in the music scene up here and to be honest i dont know of any means of contacting bands which is why i posted this on here but to date i have had one pm from a band, which is pretty disapointing, so please if you want to play in public and not on your computer or bedroom get in touch!?
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