Goodby OHAM, Hello Notes & Letters

Subject: Goodby OHAM, Hello Notes & Letters
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 11:51 AM

Thursday 21st July will be the last night of Old House Acoustic Music Club.

After two years and five months we are leaving our current venue to move to a larger, and better, home at the Post Office Social Club, Sandling Road, Maidstone, Kent.

After lengthy negotiation we have accepted their offer to operate on Monday nights, except for the second Monday of each month, when another organisation has the room.

A growing number of regulars have been adding poetry to the mix of late, and it seemed an appropriate time for a change of name. After whittling down a long list of suggestions, we have settled on the name "Notes & Letters". (Comments on the name would be appreciated, purely to gauge likely response).

The opening night of the new club will be Monday 15th August, and for that one admission is free. We are starting with a club night and will be inviting a number of performers who have been associated with the club during its past lives. All are welcome, and we will fit in as many spots around the invitees as time allows.

We hope to see some catters there.

For more info, please feel free to PM me.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Goodby OHAM, Hello Notes & Letters
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 03:24 PM

To tell you the truth, I thought "Notes and Letters" referred to the musicians who use mudsical notation (sticks and dots) versus musicians who use ABC. So for me, poetry didn't come into it at all.

How about Music and the Muse?

Subject: RE: Goodby OHAM, Hello Notes & Letters
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 03:33 PM

Oops, not mudsical notation, musical notation.

Subject: RE: Goodby OHAM, Hello Notes & Letters
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 03:47 PM

I am inclined to think there are seeds of some problems here.   I hope you overcome them, and i wish you the best of luck, but my concerns are as follows.

First and third Mondays will be a head-on clash with the Greyhound, about half a mile away, and it was the once-a-month clash between the Oast and Derek Moore's club (about the same distance apart in Rainham) that really started the decline of the Oast. |As a sidewind (without going to extremes), I never really liked Mondays anyway.

Second I think the name is poor, conjuring a much too smug "we are the literati" image that is far less inclusory than the names of at least two of the three precursor clubs that merged into OHAM.

However, I will come and check the beer on the opening night - which does not clash.

Subject: RE: Goodby OHAM, Hello Notes & Letters
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 03:50 PM

Perhaps "mudsical notation" refers to the system of notation used here at the mudcat!

If you want to be whimsical with the name, I would be amused by "MIAOW", on the basis that it is nearly a FLA (as distinct from a TLA) for Music And/Or Words.

Subject: RE: Goodby OHAM, Hello Notes & Letters
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 03:56 PM

Good luck on your move, I too think the name is pretentious [sorry] and think that something like Words & Music, or Songs and Lyrics would convey the same sentiments in a pithier fashion. Still it's easy to criticise especially from afar, so do what you think will work, and as I said before good luck.
Giok {Who has run several folk clubs}


PS You could consider Verse and Worse ;~)

Subject: RE: Goodby OHAM, Hello Notes & Letters
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 03:33 AM

Richard,

The Greyhound meets 2nd and 4th Mondays, and we plan to encourage our people to translate to it on second Mondays, on a regular basis.

Peter is aware of this, and is not unhappy about the competition on fourth Mondays, as we both feel that there will be little crossover, if any, and what there is could be in either direction.

For the most part the venues should complement each other.

I can't comment on the name, except to say that it was not my personal choice

Don T.

Subject: RE: Goodby OHAM, Hello Notes & Letters
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 05:42 AM

I can now say a little more on the subject of the name.

Public opinion is so important that we need to be sure of our choices.

The short list (from about 25 suggestions) was

1. Notes and Letters (venue is the Post Office Social Club)
2. Hazlitt Acoustic Music Club (back to the original roots of the club).
3. Open House Acoustic Music. (non venue specific)

Of these three, which would make you most likely to attend?

All feedback gratefully accepted, and a change of name may well result from it.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Goodby OHAM, Hello Notes & Letters
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 12:18 PM

Conflict of date on fourth monday only (apologies for my mistake) is better than first and third - but still not ideal

Personally, I prefer 2, but 3 is OK although hard to rationalise as the Old House is no longer the venue. Hazlitt of course, the man of letters, is strongly associated with Maidstone. If non-musicians (and non-singers) are feeling discriminated about, why not "the Hazlitt Club"