Hille, I've taken the liberty of re-running your guidelines with some line breaks added.

~Susan

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DRAFT Performers' Guidelines

The team of people involved in organising the club work extremely hard and are committed to providing a worthwhile, sustainable, venue for performers and audience alike. These notes are intended to clarify any misunderstandings and misconceptions.

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General Information

1) PA – The Sound Engineer volunteers for and does a commendably good and dedicated job in addition to supplying the PA equipment. He is a reasonable person, albeit pressurised during performances.

So - if you have sound-problem issues:
· Arrive promptly before the Club starts (8pm) to speak to SE to sort them out before you perform. (See notes on PA technical specs).
· You always have the option of performing without PA.

2) Entry fees on non-guest nights:
· #2 to pre-booked performers
· #2 to audience including performers' supporters and fan club, etc.

3) The club aims to make a profit: with profits to be ploughed back into the club - to provide a quality venue and good reputation for performance – and to put on festival events together with the town arts group – which includes your act.

4) Entry fees go towards running costs of the club, including advertising, photocopying, office materials, etc. Donated for free to the club are huge amounts of telephone costs, time arranging free publicity, petrol, and hard work trudging around putting up posters; visiting, supporting and co-operating with other local clubs.

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The Club believes in cross-Club co-operation and collaboration in order to promote live music, in particular, and performing arts in general - including your act.

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Do you want to support a healthy venue for live performances - with a sympathetic, music- loving and loyal audience and the support of other musicians? Then please respect these:

Performers' Guidelines:

1) Pre-book a spot
· Whenever possible
· Not pre-booking means a spot cannot be guaranteed. Pre-booking facilitates the smooth running of floor spots including yours.

2) Not pre-booked?
· Arrive by 7.45pm and you can be put on the Reserve List. (First come basis)

3) Late arrival can mean losing a spot

4) Advance notice of late arrival
· Can be accommodated.
· But not to performers who consistently contrive to turn up late to perform late. Strong opening acts have as much impact as strong closing acts.

5) Prioritising
· Pre-booked Performers will be prioritised.
· Prompt arrival performers - will be prioritised. (Prompt means by 8pm)

6) Amateur status does not mean amateur standards:
· A floor spot comprises 15 minutes of rehearsed material.
· Instruments should be tuned and, by and large, ready ' to go'
· Liase before performing with S.E. (Sound) to agree your sound.
· If time allows, encores may be solicited - performers will need other rehearsed material available.
· Stunning, shocking or deafening audiences into silence with an act – does not always equal a good act or one that they might return to see.

7) Respect other performances:
· Performers and audience travel considerable distances to the Club – performers/ audience will not come or return to a club where loud, drunken, talking disrupts acts that they have paid, to hear, or perform.
· First-time audience/performers - may not come back
· Regular audience/performers - may stop coming
· With no performers and no audience – there is no club.
· If you positively want the club – then support the club positively.

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Performers' Guidelines are intended to make the Club enjoyable and run smoothly for all. Performers, their friends and audience members, who consistently and selfishly flout them, to the detriment of everyone's wellbeing – WILL BE EXPECTED TO LEAVE.