Minutes: 2000-2001/2000-10-02

 

 

 

 

 

 

MINUTES MICHAELMAS 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MINUTES

02/10/00

 

1/ ROCK NIGHT IN THE ALMA

Over the Summer Andy has been liasing with the

management at the Alma with the intention of trying to set up a regular

rock night at the pub. This seems to be an idea which they are reasonably

keen on, and have agreed to host a trial night next week. This is going

to be on THURSDAY next week (12/10/00). Rocksoc will be providing and manning

the decks and the intention is to make the night solely requests in a manner

similar to the FTOTM evening s of the previous year. There was some discussion

over the details of this arrangement - it was decided that the evening

should run from 7.30pm onwards, and that it should be heavily publicised

in the preceding week in order to make it successful. There is the possibility

that this Thursday slot could become a regular weekly event for us should

the management of the Alma be suitably impressed by the turn out next week.

Andy agreed to DJ at first with the intention of passing this over to other

people later on, and to come up with a name for the event ('Rock Night

At The Alma' was suggested).

Further discussion was entered into concerning

the aims and possibilities of such an event. Following some discontent

concerning the material played at WUS over the Summer, this kind of requests-based

event has the potential to cater for a wider range of music in an environment

perhaps more conducive to the hearing of obscure / leftfield artists which

would be unlikely to be played much at WUS. The emphasis on publicity is

going to be on PEOPLE BRINGING THEIR OWN CDS. Another possibility for such

a night would be to dedicate half-an-hour or an hour to one person playing

more obscure music from a particular genre in an effort to introduce people

to new music and cater to those with more esoteric tastes. Album playbacks

(cf. the Maiden playback last term) were also mentioned.

Some concern was raised over the fact that the

first Rock Night will clash with Tight Laced, although this would not be

every week. Baz agreed to mail official after the Freshers' Fair about

it.

 

2/ FRESHERS' FAIR

Jimmer enquired whether the Fair would be selling

cheap beer again this year, which was suspected to be the case. It was

decided that the stall would need flyers, a large Rocksoc logo, the website

address, some boards and a piece of black cloth to cover the table. Baz

claimed to have many flyers, and was provided with more by Andy (along

with the return of the beloved laminating machine). Baz also agreed to

go and buy some material in the morning; Liz helpfully drew him a map to

find a fabric shop. Jimmer agreed to bring some cardboard boxes as boards,

and Roz said she'd print out a logo and website address. Oli said he would

cycle over to Andy's to pick up the T-shirts as well to see if we can flog

some more of those (despite Jimmer offering him a lift). It was decided

that there would be no free deal on WUS this year, as it is very cheap

anyway, and because it would be bad if we had to turn people away once

we've made them an offer of free / reduced entry. Andy noted that WUS has

been quite busy over Summer and that we'd made a profit, although he denies

embezzling the money. It was decided that two hour stints were reasonable

for staffing the stall at the Freshers' Fair and various people volunteered

to help (a tentative rota was drawn up). Baz informed the committee that

permission had been granted for the sale of T-shirts and membership at

the Fair.

 

3/ PUB CRAWL

It was decided to reinstate the Rocksoc Pub Crawl

next week. Deano and Rob Izzard are going to organise this, and a discussion

was entered into concerning the possible date. Friday week was mentioned,

but this was felt to perhaps be a bit busy for Rocksoc, and so Wednesday

was suggested as an alternative. It is thought that the Crawl will end

up in the Alma to show the Freshers where it is, although it was mentioned

that it maybe isn't a good idea to show them at the end of the Crawl. It

was agreed that some of us should meet the Freshers outside the main entrance

of King's College or in the Market Square before the first WUS in order

to show them the way there as well. To publicise these it was decided to

take big WUS posters to each College, preferably before Friday.

At this point it was mentioned that Rocksoc may

be organising /subsidising trips to Brumfest and the Morbid Angel gig in

Belgium later in the term but it was agreed that we would discuss these

after we've got Freshers' Week out of the way.

 

4/ WEBSITE

Andy voiced his disapproval at the current state

of the website, although Roz said that the site had been updated only a

few days ago. It was generally felt that the website should be updated

once a week, and various other things were suggested as improvements /

additions - Baz is to send Roz copies of the minutes she doesn't have to

update that, the CD library is to be catalogued again to assess what we

have 'lost' and it was suggested that Baz pester record companies for promo

CDs (as he is, in Andy's words 'the most anal record collector on the Committee').

It was noted that the CD library is currently underused and this should

be rectified.

The meeting sort of finished at 2205 (!) when

people started to drift off and / or become incoherent. Jimmer wittily

commented 'Bollocks'.