Minutes: 2000-2001/2000-10-09

 

 

 

 

 

 

MINUTES MICHAELMAS 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MINUTES

09/10/00

 

Present: Andy, Liz, Roz, Oli, Jimmer, Baz. The

meeting commenced promptly at 2033. Ish. Gina had sent her apologies for

non-attendance due to having other commitments, but promised to start coming

more regularly as of next week.

1/ MANDATE

Oli had obtained yet another mandate from the

bank this week so that Liz and the other members of the committee could

sign it. This was therefore done; two members of the committee are required

to sign a cheque, and Liz is to obtain the chequebook from Mr. Hudson forthwith.

The Secretary expressed his pleasure at the fact that he may be soon reimbursed

for the money owed to him. Once again, I am required to include some of

the wording from the mandate for the records, as I was reminded by El Presidente,

and it appears thusly:

(i) That a bank account or accounts be continued

with Midland Bank plc (the 'Bank') and the Bank is authorised to:

a) pay all cheques and other instructions

for payment signed on behalf of the Society by any two of those listed

overleaf (the 'signatory') whether any account of the Society is in debit

or credit;

b) deliver any item held on behalf of the Society

by the Bank in safe custody against the written receipt of the signatory;

and

c) accept the signatory as fully empowered to

act on behalf of the Society in any other transactions with the Bank.

 

(ii) That any debt incurred to the Bank under

this mandate shall, in the absence of written agreement by the Bank to

the contrary, be repayable on demand.

(iii) That the Secretary is authorised to supply

the Bank as and when necessary with lists of persons to sign, give receipts

and act on behalf of the Society, and that the Bank may rely upon such

lists.

(iv) That these resolutions remain in force until

cancelled by notice in writing to the Bank signed by the Chairman or Secretary

acting or claiming to act on behalf of the Society, and the Bank shall

be entitled to act on such notice whether the resolutions have been validly

carried out of not.

At this point (2037) Baz said 'hello' to Dave

who had just walked in and waved. Someone asked Andy whether he was embezzling

Rocksoc funds but he claimed that this would not significantly increase

his income and therefore, no.

 

2/ SPONSORSHIP

The Secretary was handed yet another bloody form

to fill in by El Presidente. This particular bloody form concerns an agency

called Oxbridge Advertising who are set up to provide help with gaining

sponsorship for clubs and societies. In return for filling in their form,

they will send us a free 1000 copy 24 hour access photocopy card from Mail

Boxes Etc. (MBE) and a societies card entitling us to subsidies on all

'services' (though what these services are remains somewhat mysterious).

However, the Secretary was instructed to fill in the form and get the cards.

 

3/ ROCK SHOW

We have been contacted by Neil Jones, the marketing

manager at the Corn Exchange who also runs a rock radio show (Sundays,

2100-0000, 107.9fm, The Eagle). In return for plugging us on his show and

having us on to help him interview people and generally promote Rocksoc,

as well as lending us advance promo CDs for WUS, he would like us to promote

his show at WUS / with posters / on the mailing lists, and have free entry

to WUS. Everyone agreed that this sounded like an extremely reasonable

deal and Baz was instructed to get back to him to get things going. It

was agreed to plug him over the microphone at WUS once, or maybe, twice

a night at about 11pm, and to put up posters for him.

At this point (2122) Gina turned up and tried

to escape getting involved in the meeting, but she ultimately, like the

rest of us, had to cower beneath the burning glare of El Presidente.

 

4/ THIS IS SPINAL TAP

This is being shown at the Arts Theatre starting

from Friday. We have been contacted by the Theatre who are interested in

doing a joint promotion with us - if we advertise around Rocksoc (posters,

mailing lists etc.) then they will give us reduced entry to the Monday

night showing (hopefully 10pm, though it may be only possible at 6pm).

This was generally agreed upon and Baz was told to get back to them - I

will send the full times to Rocksoc-Chat.

 

5/ BRUMFEST

This is being held at the end of November and

will have the same format as last year. There was a lot of enthusiasm amongst

the assembled throng and it was agreed that it would be good to go to this

again. Last year the coach cost us £325 return, and it was agreed

that Jimmer was going to look into coaches / ask Jinx about last year,

particularly about ones with drivers who will know where we're going. There

was some discussion as to whether Rocksoc should pay for the whole lot,

and it was generally agreed that if we could get about 40 people to go

then it would probably be quite a reasonable thing to do. Oli is going

to mail Official to see what the reaction is.

 

6/ MORBID ANGEL IN ANTWERP

This is going to be on 22nd December and including

travelling is going to take about 2-3 days, so people might only get back

Christmas Eve. The full line-up when anyone last looked is Morbid Angel,

Hypocrisy, Behemoth, Children Of Bodom and The Crown. When the Secretary

stopped dribbling, he managed to write down that Oli was going to look

into borrowing a cheap minibus from either the Student Union or one of

the Colleges. It was agreed to look into the possibilities of Rocksoc getting

involved and contributing to either transport or accommodation.

 

7/ WEBSITE

No, no, don't run away, this isn't the usual weekly

website bitch! Andy suggested we came up with a list of things to go on

the website this week, and it was agreed that this week's nominations,

sorry, priorities should be the Pub-Crawl, WUS, Brumfest and the Thursday

Rock Night at the Alma.

 

8/ POSTERS FOR WUS

Andy didn't end up sending these to Oli and so

our plan for putting them up in Colleges didn't happen. It was agreed to

do this for the next WUS, but we'd discuss it next week. Baz agreed to

mail the Freshers' List to let them know that we would be meeting them

at 8.30pm outside King's Main Gate prior to the WUS on Tuesday. Baz, Roz,

Oli and Jimmer all agreed to turn up to this. Andy commented, in what is

becoming a regular point of conversation, that perhaps Baz didn't look

'heavy metal' enough to meet the Freshers and that they might mistake him

for a 'girly indie kid'. Or something along those lines. Baz agreed to

wear a heavy metal T-shirt and was somehow persuaded that it would be a

really good idea to wear corpse-paint (Postscript: this didn't happen due

to lack of being arsed; maybe next WUS).

 

9/ IMAGE

Oh dear, and it was going so well as well. at

this point Liz made a very valid point about the image which Rocksoc is

presenting. She commented that we are supposed to be 'Rocksoc' and not

'Metalsoc', and that we should be "apolitical, areligious and amoral".

She also noted that Jimmer getting pissed and shouting Slayer at people

at the Freshers' Fair was going to put off some potential members and was

maybe not a very good idea. Which is all fine. But from this point everyone

within earshot degenerated into a hour long discussion, the contents of

which I am not going to bore you with, particularly if you've been signed

up to that over the holidays. To try and pull out what was basically the

'consensus', the following points were reiterated (time after time after

time): Liz's point is sound in that Rocksoc should not be judgmental -

not politically correct, just that the society is about music and beyond

that people are entitled to their opinions but none of them should be presented

as part of The Rocksoc Mentality. WUS is a 'rock / metal / alternative'

night, according to the flyers, and as such if music is a) rock of some

description (and no, we're not going there) and b) not already played all

over Cambridge it should be admitted. Simply by democracy and the

fact that the DJs are pulled from the membership means certain styles will

get played more than others, but Andy's ultimate put-down to critics is,

"If you don't like the music, come and play a set", and no-one to

my knowledge has ever been refused.

The meeting never really finished, as everyone

is long sick of this argument and wandered off from the bickering, so that

means we're probably still in session.

I went home at about 2240 though.