Live Music Archive

Live Music -  all of us  all love it in one form or another – whether a classical orchestral concert or a Rock n Roll concert in a football stadium or somewhere in betwixt, little quite gets the juices flowing than hearing your favorite song played live. If you live in South Costa Blanca or the Costa Del Sol, there is an abundance of Clubs and musician s.
But where is it in North Costa Blanca?
Go to Javea or Benidorm on any night of the week you will find a bar playing live music, but try finding anything in Oliva, Ontinyent or roundabouts and you’d be lucky to find the odd publican playing a banjo.
So where is all the skill? It does exist and there are some truly wonderful musicians around, with amazing repertoire and amazing personal ities. Each has a diverse musical style entertain the crowds diverse ly – and all are crowd pleasers. So the problem is not lack of skill – the problem is where to play.
Up until truly recently it was c hall enging to find anywhere to host live music, in part because of the local/regional council attitude who frown upon live music yet are happy to allow loud fireworks at 2AM. However it’s furthermore due to the apathy of the listening public. When a Club organizes live music the owner has to pay the musician s. If only ten people turn up then he has lost money. Most of these Clubs do not charge a cover or add to the drinks prices, they hope enough people turn up to make it value their while.
But imagine going for four weeks and managing to get 10 people in. Wouldn’t you be disheartened? I’m sure I would. They may be wonderful people but they’re furthermore business people who make a living.
In some Clubs the owners put on live music and the turnout is in diverse. These places need a regular following to keep going and only by doing so will  all of us  get to see more acts, because the acts will only come If the re is a crowd to play to – and that means you need to do something.
So how do you find out about what is going on. Well there are a number of sources. The Inland Trader for one, has a what is on  guide to keep you informed. There’s furthermore a amazing web site www.spanishbrolly.com where you could find information about who’s playing where, and www.spanishproperty-direct.co.uk has a lot of articles about live music and reviews of musician s.
But these sources furthermore need the input from both the Clubs and musician s.
So  all of us  have a responsibility for endorse ing to make a success of live music. If you know a Club organizing live music go and visit – you could enjoy yourself. Invite your companions, tell their companions, word of mouth is amazing advertising. The musicians need Clubs to play and crowds to play to, the Clubs need our aid to keep providing us with live music, so  all of us  need to get behind the Clubs that put on live music – not next week, next month – but NOW – it’s for our value following all and what better than sitting outdoors with a wonderful cold drink, listening to a amazing performer playing your favorite music. . Where else could you get free live music?
The listening public need to get behind our Clubs and aid them – they do a thankless task of providing music, dealing with musicians ego’s and getting paid little for it, so the least  all of us  can do is aid them. Go do something diverse today and visit a live concert. See you there!!