[Blacklabcollective] silent era show

[mick mccann]

Aw Tara that was a lovely email! You did a great job last night. And def reminded me why I love punk so much. Yeah let's def work on ideas for the beer. Has anyone ever heard of any folks who could help getting discounts from breweries they work at maybe? I'm going to ask around. 

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> On Jun 25, 2016, at 12:35 AM, tara myketiak <taramyketiak at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> First of all, all I have to say about this show is that it fucking ruled!!! It was so much fun, the bands were killer, it was the fullest I've seen the black lab in a long time, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Set times ran 15 minutes late but all things considered that's great. Music ended before 11:15pm.
> 
> We did really well for money! Door was 200 and bar was 330, numbers have been enetered in the May spreadsheet. We definitely made more than we've been making lately, and are pretty close to hitting rent, which is great. That being said, it still seems like we're barely cutting our losses at bar. We had an empty fridge and Lindsay and I did a huge beer run for 320$. We grossed 330$ at bar tonight, but after everything was squared away (I think lindsay might have grabbed a 6 pack but maybe not, and we had about 20$ in the tip jar for beers sold after i started doing count at the end of the night) we are left with 7 beers and 18 ciders. So after paying out bands and volunteers and taking into account the alcohol we have left we made peanuts on bar. I do agree that we should give bands free beers as a token of appreciation, but for whatever reason we are really making no money at bar, whatsoever. I have nothing insightful to say except that it seems like we are just barely making money off of our biggest source of revenue, and unless we figure out some kind of revenue alternative we're gonna keep hitting the red zone. This show was well attended and we made a bunch of money but we really didn't make much off bar at all. Any ideas?? 
> That said, super fun show, and one of the biggest shows we've seen in awhile. I had a blast and it reminded me why i give a shit about being involved in punk venues in the first place. Thanks everyone who was involved, you all rule and I can't imagine working on shit like this without you. <3 <3 Oh yeah P.S. I jumped last min  on co-bottomlining this show tmrw with eris  at the meeting cause Lindsay  is gonna be out of town but I don't get off of work until 6pm tomorrow so I don't have a lot of time to set shit up. . I've secured a bunch of volunteers  but someone needs to do a beer run and I don;t have the time to do it before the show. I'm really sorry, but so it goes! 
> tara 
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