I am not a smoker. Never have been, never will be - thank god for the smoking ban in pubs! Finally I can go out and have a nice time, enjoy live music, and not come home smelling like a ashtray. Surely this is attracting a whole new breed of music lover down to their local establishment to hear some great live music - people who once avoided the pubs for the same reasons I did.
Yeah, so it’s Friday night (or Saturday, or Tuesday, whatever - insert night of week here), and the band is pumping and the music is great and the air is clean and…wait, where is everyone? What? Outside in the courtyard having a butt?? Standing in front of the venue sucking down a ciggy? Come guys, surely you don’t need a nic fit that bad that you can’t get your arses in here and watch a decent band? Or is the fact you are outside exercising your right to inhale pollutants mean what’s happening on the stage really sucks??
Hmmmm, what I am to think? Has the smoking ban helped or hurt bands? Are new people coming to the pubs, or is it the same old folks who now just stand outside and make it obvious to you they don’t really care about watching you perform?
First post response gets a lollie!
November 4th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I’m going to say hurt — at our recent performances, which of course, never run to the minute of time — always have people out the back having a smoke and missing the intro.
Also — in a long, at times, hot, set — plenty of people are itching with a cigarette with no idea how long it might be till the end.
November 5th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
LOLLIE TO JYE! Thanks!
Maybe Nicoretter needs to be available at the merch stand!