Minutes: 2000-2001/2000-05-08

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MINUTES

08/05/00

 

Present: Oli, Baz, Kit, Andy, Iain, Jinx,

Jimmer, and Roz. The meeting finally started at 2100 when Oli and

Roz turned up. Unfortunately, the Alma's kitchen was being refurbished

and so there was no possibility of a cheeseburger tonight. Andy was

also displeased at the lack of orange juice.

1/ T-SHIRTS

We have had various different suggestions for

T-shirts, most of which have come from the committee. So far these

include: devil sign / spiky wrist band with 'Today is a Good Day to Rock'

(Kit); Scream mask with long hair and 'Are You Ready To Wake Up Screaming?'

(Oliver-Michael); lots of swearing on one side with 'Swearing is Big and

it is Clever' (Iain); simply the Rocksoc logo (Roz); 'Rocksbury' (Jimmer).

It was generally agreed that Jinx's suggestion of a rotting bunny and anything

from Ranting Rich were simply too silly to contemplate. It was also

agreed to leave entries open for another week to see if anyone other than

the committee has any ideas, although it was decided that T-shirts have

to be sorted out "or else" (I include the quotation marks in a vain attempt

to convey just how scary Oli was when he made this announcement). Oli is

to look into prices this week, in order to give us a better idea of how

many we want to order and in what sizes. Andy mentioned that

Talking T's on Bridge Street would probably be a good bet, and it was vaguely

agreed that 20 small and 30 large T-shirts would probably be about right.

2/ THE MAY BRAWL

The Portland Arms has now been booked for the

17th June 2000 (make a note in your diaries, people!). The discussion largely

revolved around which bands to get to play and went on for some time.

Briefly, the decision came down to a decision between Zone (suggested by

Jinx) and Akercocke (suggested by Baz). Akercocke have said that

they will bring some other London bands with them as support / headliners

(As She Screams, Throne Of Nails and Infestation were mentioned) and there

was some argument between whether the sound would be too narrow, though

some coherence was agreed to be a good thing. Concern was also raised

about whether we'd have too many / too few people turning up, although

it was pointed out that people would probably travel to see a line-up like

Akercocke / Infestation and we could sell tickets to Rocksoc members in

advance to ensure a turn-out. It was eventually decided to go with Akercocke

(Baz to speak to them tomorrow), and to ask about As She Screams for some

variety.

At this point (2120), Gina turned up and so.

3/ MAPS

Gina produced an exciting array of maps for us

to choose from, and it was decided to go along with Dave Tyler's map if

it is blown up a bit to fit on the back of a flyer and laser printed.

On a related note (i.e. stuff we're supposed to have done since last week),

Oli told us that he'd handed in the CUSU stuff about the Freshers' Fair

and the Societies' Directory and Baz claimed to sent off the membership

cards to everyone who'd e-mailed him. IF ANY MEMBERS WHO DON'T HAVE

ONE STILL NEED A CARD, E-MAIL ME ON abj21@cam.ac.uk AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Kit also claimed to have kicked Tom's arse, although he still wasn't there

so perhaps he enjoyed it.

4/ MAIDEN PLAY-BACK NIGHT

This is now booked and is definitely on - 29th

May 2000 at the Fresher and Firkin. There will playing the new Iron

Maiden album followed by Kit playing two hours of classic Maiden.

There is also talk of videos, and radio coverage by Cambridge Red on the

day before - Iain is to speak to them this week about it, and Kit promised

she'd get some posters up at WUS on Tuesday. This will be the last

Rocksoc event at the Fresher and Firkin as next term it is to turn into

a 'trendy bar', so a good turn-out would be good (by the way, thanks to

everyone who turned up at the Alma on Monday - it was the best turn-out

I've seen in ages, helped perhaps by the fact that they actually have rock

music on the juke box.).

5/ FTOTM

After the ridiculous amount of spam about this

this week, it was decided to cancel FTOTM for June as everyone will be

in exams (and before Dave says anything, the last few have had about 12

people turning up, ¾ of whom are students, and there's no point

running it for 4 or 5 people). As stated previously, the F &

F is turning into a trendy bar in September, so it was agreed that a new

venue would be required for next term, but it was agreed to leave sorting

this out until next term.

6/ ROCKSOC PICNIC

This was (perhaps surprisingly) decided to be

a very good idea - after exams, sit down on the grass outside the Anchor,

wearing black, drinking beer, playing Slayer, eating tuna and cucumber

sandwiches and generally scaring passers-by. 18th June was suggested

as a good date ("the day after the night before") and it was agreed that

someone, whose identity, for the sake of maintaining the suspense of the

narrative, will be withheld, was to provide a ghettoblaster. Oli's

next suggestion of a

Rocksoc flower-arranging party resulted in a

cuff round the back of the head.

7/ KING'S METAL NIGHT

Is apparently definitely on. Friday 12th

May, entry should be free, and they'll be handing out flyers at WUS tomorrow

(to get past the Porters).

8/ COMMITTEE CURRY

Last night the outgoing and incoming committees

went out for a curry in Easter Term. This was agreed to be a good

idea, but people's interest was failing and nothing was decided upon.

9/ MAILING LISTS

This was kept VERY brief since most of the discussion

appears to have been carried VIA the mailing lists. It was agreed

to keep rocksoc-announce as it is, and people are encouraged to be "be

sensible" (again the use of quotation marks is merely an illustrative to

tool to try and convey the thinly veiled threat present in Oli's tone of

voice and body language). ROCKSOC-ANNOUNCE IS NOT FOR THE POSTING

OF RANTS NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WANT PEOPLE TO PAY ATTENTION, NOR IS IT

TO BE USED FOR THE DISCUSSION OF SUCH RANTS AND THEIR ELIGIBILITY. STOP

FUCKING SPAMMING ME! Sorry, did that count as a rant?

At this point (2137) the meeting degenerated into

utter chaos. I believe rubber stamps were thrown, Andy commented

that Ash were always crap, even before they disappeared up their collective

arse. A brief census revealed that Jinx, Iain, Gina, Roz, Oli and

Andy hadn't yet bought the new Iron Maiden single, which then provoked

much discussion as to its relative merits. Someone made a film of

Rocksoc members talking about metal. Everyone went home.