Minutes: 1999-2000/1999-05-31

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31/05/99

The meeting was called to order at 2044 BST.

An apology was extracted from Baz for being absent at the last meeting.

Jinx was still away honeymooning.

1. APU Freshers’ Fair.

Iain is to talk to Paul and try to find out more

about it. At present there does not seem to be any great urgency to finalise

arrangements.

2. Website.

Although it has been much improved, it was noted

that there are still a number of things that need fixing: some of the links

between the pages are messed up, there are many spelling and grammatical

errors, and the minutes from 2 weeks ago are missing. In addition, there

had been some heated discussion on the newsgroup regarding the prominence

and timing of details of the May Brawl.

Alex told us that the messed up links are not

his fault, but occur when DD transfers the pages onto chiark. The other

committee members agreed to email him details of the errors, since it was

impractical to try and describe them all there and then. Alex apologised

for being rather late in putting up details of the May Brawl, when it was

pointed out that he had known since last Tuesday. A prominent banner is

to be erected on the front page, linking to the ‘events’ section where

it is currently hidden away.

For most of the above discussion, the Treasurer

was hitting buttons on a calculator (staring at it with a rather confused

look on his face), while resting his head in his hand.

3. FTOTM.

The place is booked, the membership have been

informed and Kit will be using the kit.

4. May Brawl (publicity/cost/security/bands).

As (2), details will be available on the website.

The WUS Officer is to announce it on the new rocksoc-official email list

and also produce some flyers for the Secretary to post to the 50 or so

non-email members. There was some discussion as to whether this was worth

it, but the Treasurer assured us that we could afford it and it was generally

agreed that it should be done.

It was agreed that it should cost £2.00

for members and £3.00 for non-members. People will be allowed to

join on the door. It was suggested that members of other rocksocs should

be offered discounted entry (Alex said a while ago that he would try and

spread the word around the rocksoc webring), say £2.50 but that was

decided against. The venue will not cost us anything and since one of the

bands (Zerotonin) will be bringing an 800W PA, we will only have to hire

some drum microphones. It was agreed that we should attempt to break even

and the major bands should be offered some sort of payment to help with

transport costs.

At this point (2054) Alex went to get a drink.

It was suggested that there may be need for some

sort of security due to the reputation of The Locomotive. After some discussion

it was decided that there was not much of a problem and that we would take

care of this ourselves – there will be a large number of us (including

so called "scary" people like Shaun, Keir, Paul & Steve). It was noted

that a group of bikers should not be a problem and would in fact be quite

welcome.

The shortlist of bands were: Zerotonin, Bleachface

(formerly Vae Solis), Rome Burns, Lady Cadaver, Through The Red and Keeping

Iris. Iain told us that we should try for three or four bands, preferably

three for an evening event starting at around 7 or 8, depending on when

we could start sound checking. The committee had had several requests not

to get Rome Burns and since the two goth bands would be playing in Cambridge

soon anyway it was decided not to ask either, despite suggestions from

the Secretary that we should try to get something for the gothic proportion

of the membership. Keeping Iris were dismissed as not being heavy enough

and so it was agreed that we should have Through The Red headlining, supported

by Zerotonin and Bleachface with an appropriate division of the time available.

There will be a DJ in between the bands.

Iain is to confirm the booking with the landlady

and sort out a start time.

5. Ozzfest II.

There has been practically no response to the

suggestion of tickets and/or transport for this event and so the idea has

been discarded as uneconomical. The committee apologises to those that

did want to purchase tickets and such people may find the following links

helpful:

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The meeting was closed at 2104 BST.

ADDENDUM:

There will be no charge for the May Brawl, since

the licence of The Locomotive does not allow any to be made. However if

anyone wants to make a voluntary donation of a quid or two towards covering

the cost of the evening then it would be much appreciated.

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