Blog: STATS! Month Gigs Played

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Back to the STATS then - here's the one that shows which month all the gigs were played, broken down into the YEARS in which the ROCK occurred:



The GRATE thing about getting all these old gigs into the system is that it DOES give us a clearer picture of what OCCURS. Last year everything was SKEWED somewhat by our Summer Tour, but this EXPANDED version does even it out a bit, and we can see that there's two particular months when THE ROCK occurs A LOT: March and October. It's easy to explain - October is when The Students Are Back, so everything kicks off again and there's LOADS of gigs. I know Students aren't SUCH a massive part of the DEAL to bands like us these days, as we're all a LITTLE BIT more "mature", but historically it's the time when venues put on more gigs as they try to FLEECE their beer money before it's all spent on... Well, beer. It's also when everybody's DEFINITELY back from their holidays and/or festivals, so PUB GIGS go LARGE.

For similar reasons March is always busy - despite Christmas Gigs things slow down MARKEDLY in December,and promoters are too busy DRINKING and (possibly simultaneously) doing Christmas Shopping/Christmas Visiting to organise much for early on in the New Year. Come January, however, everyone's fed up with the cold and the dark, so starts BOOKING events which all start to HAPPEN in March. And THUS does the age old CYCLE of GIGS move on!

posted 18/1/2008 by MJ Hibbett

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