{"id":62746,"date":"2017-04-13T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62746"},"modified":"2017-04-12T22:23:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T03:23:53","slug":"early-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62746","title":{"rendered":"Early Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A regular reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/916563523622\">it&#8217;s not just older working people who want earlier music shows<\/a>. Though I do think it is ok to have late bar hours, but the bands can start and end earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It links to a CBC bit suggesting that maybe, just maybe, starting music earlier in the evening will help buck up the attendance at live music shows:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.cbc.ca\/i\/caffeine\/syndicate\/?mediaId=916563523622\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not the same market, perhaps, but I&#8217;ve noticed that one of my bands (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elephantintheroomband.com\">website here<\/a>, for your band-booking pleasure) draws acceptable enough audiences when we start playing at 7 or 9 &#8211; but starting at 9:30 is pure death.<\/p>\n<p>That might have something to do with the fact that the only young people at our show are the children of some of our audience members.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; more on the subject to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A regular reader writes: Turns out it&#8217;s not just older working people who want earlier music shows. Though I do think it is ok to have late bar hours, but the bands can start and end earlier. It links to a CBC bit suggesting that maybe, just maybe, starting music earlier in the evening will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62748,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62746\/revisions\/62748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}