Session hunting

The list is growing ... which is good.

The Quiet Man might be an idea and the other day Declan (Kitty's cook) suggested a new pub opened near Catalunya Radio (Francesc Macià) which according to him must have a license since they own a night club next door.

So summarizing and in no particular order of preference:

Michael Collins

El Monasterio

George Payne

Quiet Man

Flann O'Brien's

Harlem

Dublin Sports Bar ?? (I think it's called)

This next week we should start the inquiries:

Patricia will try to contact Michel Collins, The George Payne and the new place
Bernard is waiting for his neighbour, who's a friend of El Monasterio's owner
Brendan can try The Quiet Man.

Harlem and Flann O'Brien's start on the bench.

It is important to knew if they'd agree to host a weekly session (preferably same time, i.e Sunday between 8-10:30) but don't commit to anyone. If by chance there's more than one possible place we could choose. It'd be important to know if they have the damned license.

Conversation with Dominic

Last night we went down to talk to Dominic. He showed us the famous 'document', which ended up being just an inspection form. According to Dominic (and it's worth saying that he wasn't there) a couple of 'guardia jurados' on behalf of the Ayuntamiento showed up and started bullying the waiter saying "we know you have live music on Sundays" and other crappy stuff.
In the end the report says that the pub has acoustic live music but they don't have a license, and that they have to install a volume regulator for the music system.

The famous 100.000 euro apparently include the sound proofing, which is done by a company certified that provides the document needed for the license. Clearly a case of 'contubernio' between the company and the City Hall.

Anyway, there's no much we can do really. I told D I'd do some research on the internet and told him to ask his lawyer (or Dubliner's Steven, for that matter) about the possibility of getting a Centro Cultural license. I also mentioned that we were doing the paperwork for setting up the organization and that I would try to find out if the pub could be our 'sede social', in a desperate try to find a gap in the regulation. Anyone knows a lawyer we could ask to?

D confirmed our suspicions that the Michael Collins DO have a music license.

In a totally different matter, we agreed with the D to start a forthnightly pub quiz next Monday (the 30th) at 10PM. Anyone interested?? The Prize: all beers consumed over the night free.

New e-mail function

Hi there,

I thought it'd be difficult to know when someone posts anything here, so I added an e-mail function, so each of us will get an e-mail warning whenever there's a new post / comment.

Hope is not too annoying. If you don't want to get these e-mails, just tell me and I'll take you off the list.

Toni