[Dixielandjazz] The state of OKOM in the UK

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Yes, indeed Dave there are such places in probably every city, as in My 
favorite Dive, or the current In place to hang and some of them do 
indeed have magic for a while, at least until the fickle crowd 
discovers another hip place and moves on.

Hard to track and certainly hard to actually determine which one is 
going to last and be THE Place where everyone wants to go see and be 
seen.  I guess a lot of it has to do with where the crowd feels 
comfortable at the time, at least with the current going out for live 
music crowd of the younger generations.

Heck if we all really knew the magic formula we would own a chain of 
clubs and franchise them out like McDonalds. :))

Tom Wiggins

-----Original Message-----
From: tubaman at tubatoast.com
To: Tcashwigg at aol.com
Cc: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] The state of OKOM in the UK

    Funny thing about venue conditions - sometimes the places you 
describe as horrible are the "hottest place in town" if the right bands 
are there - I was in New York City last week and went to Brooklyn to 
see a group called "Slavic Soul Party" - the club was a 
hole-in-the-wall bar, the room the band played in was about 25x25 feet 
(maybe a bit bigger, I didn't measure) and the crowd was huge! Wide 
range of ages, many dedicated fans, dancers making do with what space 
they could find, no sound system except a basic PA with two speakers. 
The band had to march out to the main bar every once in a while to be 
properly heard... 
 
 A step up from Pres Hall, but not much ;-) 
 
 anyway, 
 
 Dave Richoux 
 On Apr 29, 2007, at 7:08 PM, tcashwigg at aol.com wrote: 
 
  > It more than likely has to do with putting good OKOM in the all or > 
at least many of the Wrong Places. 
 > 
  > The presenters also have a responsibility to flow with the times > 
and put their events in venues that will attract more and larger > 
diversification in audiences. You need to have them where the > Public 
will attend. Outdated and old timey venues that are dirt > cheap by 
comparison to the new Hip places to hold events are cheap > for a 
reason:)) Nobody wants to go there any more because the > acoustics 
often suck, the Pa System is not adequate if it ever was, > and the 
ambiance of the room sucks so bad that it conjures up the > image of 
playing in a grammar school cafeteria or "Multi Purpose > Room". 
 > 
  > Ya want a lively hip younger crowd to get turned onto the music and 
 > associate with the old folks as well ya gotta take it to where it's > 
happening. The current IN Spot. It is just as important as to the > 
quality of the band and the selection of the music. 
 > 
 > 
 > Cheers, 
 > 
 > Tom Wiggins 
 > 
 
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