by Guest on Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:17 pm
[s]Director of Services wrote on 22:37, 27th Nov 2004:
Rennie,
A few points.
You're wrong, school discos did not perform well.
Live music nights have proven popular and worthwhile and way overdue.
Three discos a week is stale, boring, and not what the market wants.
And, if you are so keen to do market research, you can do so. But you've already proven that you can't handle it.
1) School Discos performed exceedingly well. I remember going to most of them in first year (2001), and they were packed out far more often than the Bop. Perhaps St Andrews is changing?
2) Rennie makes a good point. Music night is not a huge sell-out or selling point. Seen it myself. Why? Because the beer bar in Venue 1 and about an additional 90 sq. ft. on the dance floor is open, not to mention that it's stacked with tables and chairs. Max Cap: 100, 150? This wouldn't have anything to do with personal relationships with certain officers, would it...
3) 1000 people do not go bopping every friday, Kinky Monkey. On Hallowe'en, I have it on good authority that the bop sold 400/500... even Coolio didn't sell out, and Venue 1 has max cap of about 1100 (someone, correct me if I'm wrong, though I'm fairly sure I'm not.)
4) Speaking of good market research, the SRC and SSC permit, nay encourage, Beaton's and the OUD to operate at a loss, a kind of micro-management on the Sab level that is both unnecessary and counterproductive.
Their argument for keeping the Saint wrapped up in bureaucratic red tape is that they're trying to protect the saint from themselves and their mythical "equal opps violations..." heck, it's a student paper. It's bad press to restrain them. And they can't even make up their minds as to whether or not they'll let the paper keep using the building.
Market research, my foot.