Minutes: 2000-2001/2000-11-13

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MINUTES

13/11/00

 

Present: Andy, Gina, Liz, Baz, Jimmer. The meeting

almost started at 2105, but the Committee were distracted by Andy enquired

whether Baz was short for Barrington. Baz looked at him in utter disbelief,

before Liz commented that she once had a teddy bear called Barrington.

Baz assured everyone that neither was his name Barrington, nor was he a

teddy bear. Liz went on to comment that she once had a brown bear which

she innocently called Boddington. Someone thought that this would have

been a witty pun on the words 'beer' and 'bear', but this was not generally

agreed on. Baz received a cheque from Liz, for which he was very grateful.

1/ BRUMFEST

Money received so far was noted and Jimmer confirmed

that he had a receipt and confirmation from the coach company. The coach

was to leave Victoria Avenue at 6pm, and it was hoped that we would get

a driver who actually knew his way around Birmingham a bit. It was suggested

that just in case we obtained an A-Z of Birmingham and Jimmer agreed to

sort this out. Oli had not arrived at this point and so little else could

be said. except that at this point (2116) Oli walked into the Alma. When

questioned about numbers of people who were confirmed so far, he told everyone

that 11 people had paid so far, that 40 tickets were coming from the organisers,

and that Oli would be sending them a cheque on Friday for the sold and

unsold tickets. Oli agreed to spam official and Baz said he'd get in touch

with the Freshers.

2/ MARILLION AND GIGS

Thus far there has been a disturbing silence from

Marillion. Andy said that he would get back in touch with them this week.

Early in the week Baz had visited the Portland Arms and the Boat Race.

The Portland Arms have told us that they can't take us at the end of this

term, and so we are going to have to look into a gig there at the beginning

of next term. Bands mentioned were the usual suspects - Mine, Interstate,

The Enchanted, Vae Solis, some psych bands (Jon who was passing mentioned

the Woronzow bands and Bedouin, though we'd have to speak to the Boat Race

about that). The Boat Race had actually been quite helpful when approached

about Marillion, and it was agreed that although this would be a useful

'foot in the door', we should build relations with the pub putting greater

emphasis on the web site and plugging the rock groups they have playing

there on the mailing lists (the Boat Race often have rock covers and originals

bands playing there, such as Pink Fraud next week). Baz is to get back

in touch with the Boat Race and see about getting Rocksoc

discounts if we can get a significant number

of people down there. Baz is also to speak to the Portland Arms again about

next term. At this point (2121), Deano put some Tom Jones on the jukebox.

Baz approved.

3/ MR SULLIVAN

John told us that he had spoken to the Damerell,

and now has the passwords and other necessary paraphernalia. He is going

to wait a couple of days, and if everything looks OK, is going to go ahead

with taking over the position of Systems Administrator. Baz is to sort

out some of the members' e-mails which are currently piling up (either

new ones or old, irrelevant ones) and send the appropriate corrections

to 'rocksoc-official-owner@chiark.greenend.org.uk'.

At this point, Baz went to the bar and got roped

into buying a drink for Andy. He was told off for thinking that Andy drank

pineapple and soda, when everyone knows that he drinks orange and soda.

4/ QUIZ

Jimmer and Baz talk over the weekend and write

a quiz. This will probably be held on the last Thursday of term, in the

Alma instead of / in addition to the regular Thursday shenanigans. Various

other games and activities were discussed, including Jenga, pass the parcel

(to rock music, natch) and Twister. Liz commented that she would be unwilling

to unwrap anything wrapped by anyone else in Rocksoc, and thus volunteered

to do our wrapping for us. Oli commented that he was actually quite good

at wrapping. Roz questioned his masculinity. Everyone else politely looked

elsewhere.

5/ LIZ'S AOB

i) Allegedly there are pictures of Oli naked with

two half melons, and with melted and unmelted candles, floating around.

It was generally felt that these should be within the public domain, and

thus Roz is to procure these items and put them on the website.

ii) The accounts - all of the incomings and outgoings

appear to be in order. Oli presented Liz with the stubs from the T-shirt

sales. Liz

mentioned that the 92nd bank sheet was missing,

and that Andy is to look for it. If it cannot be found, we can order another

one, but the bank will charge us. We could also ask Baz Bazaz if he knows

where it might be. Liz is to write up the accounts this week, give this

to Roz, who is then going to put them on the website.

6/ THURSDAY AT THE Q CLUB

We have been offered a monthly Thursday night

at the Q Club. Roger has suggested a rock night, with a more commercial

slant than WUS. This would narrow our options over what to play, but is

still not that restrictive given the wide spectrum that the term 'rock'

covers. We would need regular DJs for this kind of night, rather than volunteers.

At the moment, Roger is offering us this evening basically for free to

see if we can make it work. Obviously this would cause a clash with our

Thursday nights at the Alma and Tight Laced. It was suggested that we liase

with the people who run Tight Laced to see if it would be possible to alternate

the nights to avoid clashes, and clashes with The Alma would only be one

in four anyway. It was suggested that a feeler be put out on the mailing

lists to see what people think, and go from there. It was agreed that Andy

was to talk to Roger, Max and Ryan and see what they all think, Baz is

to mail announce; this is to be thought about in the near future, not over

the holidays, but early next term.

The meeting was closed at 2158.