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Diary of a Rock Band
It seems only a minute since the year
started, but we are now half way through
and already nearer to next Christmas than
the one just gone! So with six months
of the year gone I thought bit would be
good to review Black Thursday’s year so
far, as after a quiet start 2015 has turned
into one of our busiest.
We misfired into the year with a couple
of false starts, having had a couple of
early gigs cancelled through venues being
doubled booked. At one of those we
actually turned up to find another band
already setting up their equipment and
a very apologetic landlady who hadn’t
realised she had been using two separate
diaries for her bookings. At least the other
venue had the decency to phone with the
news that they’d made a mistake with
their bookings, so fortunately we didn’t
have to make the journey on the night.
From then on things improved
dramatically, as they needed to, since we
had a new PA to pay for. We had taken
the decision late last year that we needed
to replace our old PA with something
more up to date, of better quality and
smaller in size. After much deliberation
we chose to spend around £3500 on
our new equipment and sold off the
old gear to help pay for it. Garry said he
was happy to fork out the money for the
balance and for us to repay him from
the money we earned through th \