Looking forward to normal gigs again !!!

[CGR]

Good to see a number of local pubs around here announcing the restart of live music after 19th July.

I need to start flexing my fingers again and get some time in the woodshed ahead of the first gig.

I'm looking forward to it. Are you?

[Serial_Apologist]

Quite a few seem to be taking place in London already: the Vortex and Café Oto seem to be up and running. Not sure if I feel ready to make the journeys yet, however. Sadly my old mate, who would go to gigs together with me since he lives in the neighbourhood, feels he is too far gone with Alzheimers to attend any more live jazz.

[Ian Thumwood]

There has been a lot of chatter about the opening up of society on the football forum I also visit. I have to say that I think that the Govt's relaxation of measures proposed for 19th July 2021 seem like a disaster waiting to happen. I cannot see this working at all as daily infections reach 30,000 /day and the increased risk of future mutations of the virus. Picking up on the jazz websites, the opening up of venues is also apace in the US and whilst the limited appeal of jazz is unlikely to make gigs super-spreader events, I feel that the proposal to open football stadia to full capacity is risky. I am uneasy about this even though I miss live football. The T20 cricket is currently being managed carefully at Hampshire and I am sure concert venues will be similarly cautious. My concerns would be that other "hospitality" venues will not necessarily be so scrupulous and the woman representing the hospitality industry by Evan Davies on "PM" on Monday evening had no answer as to how she would protect her staff in the instances that, say, none of the customers chose to wear face masks. Not withstanding the fact that the audience for jazz probably correlates to the more intelligent and sensible members of society, I remain unconvinced that society is ready to open up and feel that the restrictions really need to remain in place until the spring of 2022 at the earliest.

[Dave2002]

There has been a lot of chatter about the opening up of society on the football forum I also visit. I have to say that I think that the Govt's relaxation of measures proposed for 19th July 2021 seem like a disaster waiting to happen. I cannot see this working at all as daily infections reach 30,000 /day and the increased risk of future mutations of the virus.

Interesting to read your views on this. I'm neither unduly pessimistic, nor over optimistic either. We have, after all, now been to a live opera, and been on a flight from Scotland to London - though we have been vaccinated fully.

I don't know how the number of 30,000 infections per day comes about. Is that fully certified cases by a test, or some form of extrapolation from other data? At least one study (Spector ...) was correlating other symptoms with Covid, so may be using other means to get proxy data in lieu of tests. So it may be that the number of "real" infections per day is somewhat lower - though we have no way of knowing.

There are still clearly people who get ill, and people who are hospitalised, and some who die, and those numbers are showing a rising trend.

On another website musicians were expressing views that they would like to meet up and perform with their mates/friends/other musicians again. This has prompted me to think that perhaps we could reconvene our "recorder" group in our garden - and just hope we don't get into too much difficulty with the neighbours. That would be weather dependent though, and I'd hate to see our cellist (bass recorder) spoil his cello if rain comes on rapidly.

I am assuming that there may well be yet another wave of CV, though it might be less devastating that the earlier ones. Having said that though, in Sweden in the 1918-20 "Spanish" flu pandemic, some of the later waves were considerably worse than the first one.

In the meantime, if you notice I'm still posting here in a few weeks you can assume, unless I mention otherwise, that we have survived the rigours of opera attendance and travel.

[Bryn]

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?18133-Contemporary-Electric-Guitarists-playing-Jazz&p=853434#post853434

Unfortunately, I have to miss https://iklectikartlab.com/overtones-and-undertones/ due to getting that date for a day operation on my right ankle, immediately after which I do not expect to be fully ambulatory, even if the procedure gets finished in time to get to the gig.

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...434#post853434

Unfortunately, I have to miss https://iklectikartlab.com/overtones-and-undertones/ due to getting that date for a day operation on my right ankle, immediately after which I do not expect to be fully ambulatory, even if the procedure gets finished in time to get to the gig.

Remind us nearer the time about the op, Bryn. These things tend to get lost in today's flotsam. At least something is going to be done for you.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

New York Times last week...
"The Blue Note, which reopened in mid-June at roughly two-thirds capacity, has since made all of its 250 seats available. Proof of vaccination against the coronavirus is not required at either club, though masks are recommended for the unvaccinated at Birdland..."

Well, probably "One night at Birdland" is all it takes! Seems nuts to me, but then this world has been off any rational axis for a considerable period/decades.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Meanwhile, in Copenhagen (Montmartre)...
COVID-19 pass

Due to the requirements and rules from the authorities, guests must be able to present a valid COVID-19 pass when attending concerts.



Please have your COVID-19 pass ready upon arrival.



You can get a COVID-19 pass when you documentation for one of the following criterium:

• That you have been vaccinated.

• That you have received a negative test within 72 hours (either PCR or rapid test).

• That you have previously been infected with corona.

[Bryn]

Remind us nearer the time about the op, Bryn. These things tend to get lost in today's flotsam. At least something is going to be done for you.

It's to abrade an arthritic spur which has developed, possibly due to a combination of misalignment following previous breaks of the fib and tib above the ankle and a multiple compound break of the femur, immediately above the knee. Not helped by the RSI associated with driving large vehicles.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's to abrade an arthritic spur which has developed, possibly due to a combination of misalignment following previous breaks of the fib and tib above the ankle and a multiple compound break of the femur, immediately above the knee. Not helped by the RSI associated with driving large vehicles.

That fracture in the lower leg sounds similar to one suffered by my computer adviser. He had to have a metal screw inserted, causing swelling and considerable pain whhich would not be relieved until it was eventually removed, he was told. That was seven years ago, and the screw has still not been removed. Eddie now suffers a whole lot of additional contingent problems, and has to spend much of his time in a wheelchair. He's only 61.