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 among, 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 Venues and artists.

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 locating anything in Oliva, Ontinyent or roundabouts and you’d be lucky to find the odd publican playing a banjo.

So where’s all the talent? It does exist and there are some incredibly wonderful musicians around, with wonderful repertoire and wonderful individual ities. Each has a varying musical style entertain the crowds varying ly – and all are crowd pleasers. So the problem isn’t lack of talent – the problem is where to play.

Up until decidedly recently it has been c venue enging to find anywhere to host live music, in part because of the Regional council attitude who frown upon live music yet are happy to allow loud fireworks at 2AM. Nonetheless it is likewise due to the apathy of the listening public. When a Club organizes live music the owner has to pay the musicians. If only ten people turn up then he has lost resources. 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 am sure I would. They can be wonderful people but they’re likewise business people who make a living.

In some Clubs the owners put on live music and the turnout is in divergent. The 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 Assuming that the re is a crowd to performance to – and that means you need to do something.

So how do you find out about what’s going on. Well there are a number of sources. The Inland Trader for one, has a what’s on  guide to keep you informed. There’s furthermore a wonderful website www.spanishbrolly.com where you can find information about who’s playing where, and www.spanishproperty-direct.co.uk has a lot of articles about live music and reviews of musicians.

But these sources additionally need the input from both the Clubs and artists.

So we have a responsibility for stimulate ing to make a success of live music. If you know a Venue organizing live music go and visit – you might enjoy yourself. Invite your companions, tell their companions, word of mouth is excellent advertising. The artists need Venues to play and crowds to play to, the Venues need our support to keep providing us with live music, so we need to get behind the Venues that put on live music – not next week, next month – but NOW – it’s for our benefit after all and what better than sitting outdoors with a good cold drink, listening to a excellent band playing your favorite music. . Where else might you get free live music?

The listening public need to get behind our Clubs and support them – they do a thankless task of providing music, dealing with artists ego’s and getting paid little for it, so the least all of us can do is support them. Go do something diverse now and visit a live performance. See you there!!