Making progress

For a long time I have been a regular attendee at a local jam session/open mic night and loved every minute of it. When the pub changed hands the people that had run the night for over 15 years decided that they wanted a break from having to be there every night and as there was some concern about what might happen to the pub the musicians voted me as the next leader.

To say I was shocked was an understatement but I did feel honoured too that they thought enough about me that they were confident enough to trust me to take it forward.

Since then things at the pub have been up and down with rumours of what was going to happen, changes in the temporary management every few weeks and other stuff so it has been a challenge keeping it together whilst at the same time working on an inclusive strategy to move it forward.

I can now say that the work is beginning to pay off in that the 'branding' of the night as opposed to the venue has meant that we have now secured a new place to play and with some simple changes to the web site and Faceberk group we can move straight to the new place and all the promotional stuff can stay as it is.

Although all of that is good my next challenge is to check through the gear at the new place, find out how it's wired and get it all up and running so wish me luck with that. There's a lot more stuff there than I've been used to before so it's going to be fun learning how it all works and hopefully making it sound good. That's also before I take a look at the lighting rig too!

Anyhow, I'm still grateful for the support of the chaps and chapesses at the jam. Here's a picture of just a few of them from the last night at the old place.