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Thread #108144 Message #2251363
Posted By: Surreysinger
02-Feb-08 - 08:17 AM
Thread Name: Kitching and Bartley, Guildford 8/2/08
Subject: RE: Kitching and Bartley, Guildford 8/2/08
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Just a reminder that this is taking place next Friday (8th February). So far there are plenty of tickets available. It's interesting to note that sales have been slow - although I have seen very good reports of this duo in other places, I have personally not heard them yet. However, Lawrence Heath, who runs the club, has never yet (to my knowledge) booked a duff act for any of his concert or club gigs, so I'm sure they'll be worth seeing
It's noticeable that tickets for (say) Les Barker, Sid Kipper, Jez Lowe, Bill Caddick etc all sold considerably faster. Each and every time we have younger guests at the club it has proved more difficult to shift the tickets for the gig - although on every occasion those who do turn up have never failed to enjoy the evening !! Speculation at the moment is that punters are unwilling to try the acts unknown to them(and specifically the young unknown), that the current economic trends mean that everyone is being a bit more cautious about their cash etc. (For instance, it's noticeable that a number of the regular monthly ceilidh venues in the south are in trouble ... numbers of dancers are down etc ....is this related ?)
It would be interesting to know people's opinions on this .... or maybe this is tantamount to opening Pandora's Box and letting all the little evils of the world out to play???
Whatever the case, we'd love to see you at the Club on Friday next ... I'm sure that Tom and Gren will give us a good evening of entertainment!!