The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56565   Message #913645
Posted By: Bernard
19-Mar-03 - 01:48 PM
Thread Name: Manchester Extravaganza 4
Subject: RE: Manchester Extravaganza 4
I'm aiming to be there around noon to start shifting furniture, changing lightbulbs and so on, though we hope to get underway with the first singaround at about 1:30pm - earlier if enough turn up! We expect to finish around 11:30pm each day, so there's value for money - a pound an hour on a weekend ticket!

The way the singarounds work is each person gets one song, and can either stay seated where they are, stand up, or go to the 'front'.
We write floor singers' names on a list as they arrive, which becomes the running order for the singaround. It's much fairer that way.

When it's time for a guest to do their first set, the singaround stops, to continue where we left off after a short break when the set is over. After the guest's second set we have a longer break to allow guests to sort out their gear... then we carry on singing until the next guest is ready to start.

If you intend to sing, make sure either myself or Pauline has you listed! I will be running the singarounds, as Pauline has enough to do selling raffle tickets and looking after the guests! John will have enough to do keeping Pauline's beer coming!