Trying to compete with an established night on a weeknight

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Posted by EddieZilker on Jul-30-2010 01:32:

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Originally posted by Mad for Brad
not doing so well with the ladies huh.

I suspect not but they never caught the guy. Prior to that, they did catch some guy with a gun. It was completely by accident. The guy was kind of getting in the bouncer's face and the bouncer was talking him down. The guy was just getting ready to turn around when the bouncer gestured, brushing his hand against the gun, trapped in the guy's waist.

The bouncer immediately reaches under the guy's shirt and snatches the gun before the idiot could reach for it. The guy was crying by the time the cops got there. He'd taken his father's gun from his dresser "just in case".

Posted by jdat on Jul-30-2010 16:53:

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Originally posted by Mad for Brad
easiest way to kill a club night or club for that matter is to fire a gun in the establishment. Of course I don't know how bad you want to compete but this will work. More effective if you shoot someone but then you have the whole murder thing to deal with.

it could also mean the death of all club nights if the cops start being around a lot and people get annoyed/paranoid ... this obviously depends on the area, some places have cops around all the time and that doesn't prevent stabbings/shooting on a regular basis during club nights

Posted by Dojomaster26 on Jul-30-2010 21:37:

Posted by Omega_Blue on Aug-02-2010 11:58:

i have experienced a remarkably similar situation- i booked a wednesday night weekly at a small bar that was a regular venue for house and techno on the weekends, albeit a regularly unsuccessful and typically 3/4 empty venue (on a good night) for shitty house and dated techno. i begged for a monthly friday or saturday thing instead but it wasn't happening. inevitably, the night failed- the bar ended up closing.

i didn't have competition from other wednesday night parties though; it was basically due to location (being south of downtown and slightly near the ghetto), the day (wednesday night in a city that's generally unreceptive to electronic music), and the regularity of the gig (trying to pull a successful wednesday gig week after week after week, with the only people attending being your close friends for the most part, was impossible; you can't expect your friends to make it there and spend their money every week). a half full venue on a wednesday night with competing parties sounds like a minor success to me. so basically, i don't really have anything to add other than i feel for the OP, and i've been there before, lol.

however, it's a kick in the balls that you guys are doing all this legwork and not getting paid. tbh, i wouldn't flyer the event either if they didn't give me any cash to work with for promotion. they can't expect you to pay for all of the expenses of creating, printing, distributing flyers, booking deejays, advertising online on different social networks, and then playing for nothing more than a few free drinks. if and when the night gets a bit more successful, i would definitely renegotiate terms of compensation.

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