In the toilet

Elton John is coming to Derby next year....well rock my crocodile and blow my candle out. At £80 + a ticket and no less than 16000 seats to be sold...I figure he wouldn't do for 'experience ' or oooh we haven't got a big budget. Fact is, most of the audience, will be so far away, that they will have to watch him on a screen.. so why not stay at home?? Have a take away? 80 smakeroons can buy a lot of kebabs? Well tonight...we are playing for free...as we have every Sunday for last 21 years. Using petrol and buying beer. It costs us to play...as it does most musicians in the real world. Tonight I dedicate my solo to Felix.. my sole reader of meanderings...which reminds me. I went to watch Miranda at Nottingham arena. £46...and yes spent the whole evening watching a screen, whilst this small dot on a stage miles away..told jokes. In fact it could have been anyone? Maybe she was at home with her feet up. The front rows were only for the partially sighted? And it was recorded?? Makes yer think...

Chess

The four photos below will make sense , i promise. Read on.
Through my life, I have played with many types of Bands. Orchestras, shows, oompah bands, pop , salvation army ( in a play) swing bands...and brass bands. Each have their own idiosyncratic ways.. But brass bands always win , when it comes to giving value for money and sheer determination to play on...even if no one listening. So the pictures below...show the organiser logic for most brass bands.
1. Wait until band has set up in the most loneliest of locations.. Wait until they have played a number...then move them.
2. Advertise two bands...which in reality is only one...but move them around.
3. Realise that actually an audience is important .

So study the photos and make your own mind up if i am right or wrong.