[Blacklabcollective] totals for tonight plus rant

[tara myketiak]

Sorry for ranting everyone I was very drunk last night!

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 3:20 PM, mick mccann <nomoreroads at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm super sorry about all that Tara. I assumed your role was what you
> thought your role was and not the one to have to do the whole show. That's
> not cool. I sincerely am sorry I couldn't help with this gig.
>
> It sounds like you handled it as great as any of us did and song beat
> yourself up as you did amazing. They should've been more supportive to you.
> The promoter should've showed up at 7 like usual and made sure to keep in
> contact with you. That's not nice at all.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 22, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Lindsay Kasting <l.kasting86 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Yeah I'm super sorry to hear it turned out that way, and yeah let's do our
> best to make sure that kind of thing doesn't happen again. You two are
> champs!
>
> Xo L
>
>
>
> On May 22, 2016, at 12:29 AM, tara myketiak <taramyketiak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks anju! I definitely don't need any kind of compensation. I just felt
> flustered and needed to vent. Thank you all for listening!
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That is super shitty Tara, I'm really sorry about the situation, it's not
>> fair to you or Quinn at all. Obviously, I wouldn't approve her to do
>> another gig at Black Lab and I feel like maybe we should say something to
>> her but also it might be worth it to cut our losses.
>>
>> I would like to help share the brunt of the shiftiness, obviously I can't
>> go back and help or tell everyone to go fuck themselves but what if I sent
>> you some cash to contribute to a nice dinner for you and Quinn?
>>
>> Anju
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, 22 May 2016, tara myketiak <taramyketiak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> the total $$ we made tonight: 78 from door and 212.50 from bar, but that
>>> included some late night 6 pack sales that I think we maybe made a rule
>>> about not selling so cheaply but i couldn't remember? the bar did okay,
>>> although not for the weekend, and the show did pretty poorly, it was
>>> decently attended but I almost considered giving the two touring bands a
>>> bigger cut, but in the end decided to stick with our 50/50 policy.
>>> I'm sorry to those of you that I've already complained to, but I'm
>>> pretty peeved about this show. I signed up at the last second because
>>> Heather forgot she was doing the show and I guess some miscommunication
>>> happened and I thought I was just going to be the collective member body to
>>> fill the space/bylaw requirements. That is very much what I thought the
>>> email exchange implied. In the end Heather was an hour late and the
>>> promotor didn't have  a phone so i was letting bands in/moving gear after 8
>>> when the show should have already started, and heather and the promoter
>>> were not responding to texts or messages. I guess none of us noticed that
>>> the Facebook event was set for doors at 9, so when i told heather we really
>>> needed to start at 9, and be over by 11, they said they were receptive but
>>> really all the bands laughed at the timeline. I said beforehand earlier
>>> today that the show needed volunteers and then heather after 8pm was like
>>> "oh, there are no volunteers." So quinn did bar and i did security and I'm
>>> going to do clean up tomorrow and the show promoter did door and had a
>>> friend do sound. I emphasized to heather several times today that one can't
>>> just put on a show with no volunteers and then she just showed up with no
>>> communication, no volunteers, and didn't communicate to the bands that we
>>> actually don't start shows at 10 and end at midnight. During the first
>>> singer/songerwriters set i was worried about how late it was going and
>>> about to text heather that we needed to cut the set short and some random
>>> person told me that heather had actually left to go to another show and
>>> said "bye." I did my best with quinn helping as solo volunteers for the
>>> whole show but I am super super peeved. I think it that kind of
>>> circumstance its almost like "maybe i need to shut the fucking show down"
>>> because its not even safe to run an entire show with TWO people doing all
>>> of the volunteer roles. Especially when we said the back door needed to be
>>> locked and it was found open and people weren't even smoking outside but
>>> had left. Im very much like this make sense why only bottom liners need to
>>> have 100% been trained and no one but people versed in the details can put
>>> on a show Tonight was such a nightmare, I feel pretty shitty about the
>>> whole thing. Sorry to complain but I just do not feel good.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anju Singh
>>
>>
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