leschirons

Congrats

Des bought a Jazz p/u cover from me. Great comms, prompt payment, nice and easy to deal with. Nice guy.

Maybe it's good for metal😉

Point of view from the other side. I'm on the committee for the Necton village charity music festival and have been for four years My job is to find and book the six acts. All the profit from the events is split between three charities. Noone working on the day is paid EXCEPT the bands. The committee chairman would like me to find at least five free bands to increase profits. I refused the first year and someone else did the bookings. The disaster that followed (on a par with a very bad open mic night) made them see sense. Since then, every act gets at least £150 expenses. I'll usually try to get the headliners to drop their fee down to maybe £500 but one, has actually refused payment and just taken the expenses. Our bar is run by the committee and village volunteers do the parking We pay for security, medics tent, the stage, sound system and engineers and the 50Kw gennie. None of the organisers and helpers get paid. Bands also get a free burger each and a drink. I would never expect a band to play for free AND be out of pocket.

All my basses have Labella white nylons. Plug in, turn on the Shuttle, low boost and top boost buttons in. All knobs at 11.00 o'clock (ish) If I can hear it, the band can hear it, the punters can hear it, that's my sound.

I'm about 25 mins from Wymondham. This is pub band heaven if that's what you're looking for. Depends on your prefered genre of course but if you want a blues band or classic rock covers, you've come to the right place. Pubs with music are alive and well here compared to other parts of the country. The Cross keys in the town centre has live music. You have at least another six venues in Dereham plus the Dereham blues festival. Jam nights in Norwich, the Apex in Bury St Eds, the Waterfront in Norwich, the Corn Exchange in King's Lynn and many other venues. You shouldn't have much trouble finding a band. Send me a PM when you've moved and I'll do you a list of places to check out and maybe a couple of contacts who may be up for playing. Good luck with the move.