Have you been laid off in the current economic climate?
Do you play a session instrument??
Do you find yourself with more time on your hands to practise your music???
Would you like to meet other people in the same situation as you are????
Why not start up a recession session with your fellow musicians. Its cheap, entertaining and now you can spend the time you always wanted to make music!!!!!
Get into orbit, Spudnik.
I wish I found it so funny.
I'm fighting redundancy just now. There's a *vague* chance I might actually even win as I have good union representation, and the employer doesn't seem to have taken into account such things as redundancy payout and more importantly actuarial strain of my pension obligation. I'm angling for redeployment, and if HR has any sense they should go along with that. However, pride comes before a fall so maybe I ought not speak too soon.
The habitually limp-wristed and toothless Guardian carried an article on just this recently and they dead-on on this one. They reported redundancy, for people who had been in previously steady responsible jobs, can endow feelings akin to bereavement, and they are right. It's very strange how it works. When I worked as a carpenter I couldn't give a shining sh!te if I got sacked any day of the week. Now I'm all over the place. Gone too soft maybe, in this lower/middle management penpusher status.
Anyway, I'm sure recession sessions will start springing up all over the place. They used to have Wednesday aftenoon sessions in a pub in Dublin - the name escapes me now - could be Hughs'es - near Huston station. BTW they are now starting to call it "The 2nd Great Depression"...like the *2nd* World War ...pretty scary eh? Since the 2nd one was worse than the first?oh and not forgetting that the roots of the actual WW2 can be traced back to 1929 .......Just thought I'd cheer you all up at the launch of the so called Festive Season.....
Some of us dear, delicate souls perused the archives before daring to sign up. Either that or we may have been reading on and off for many a year. And neither initial, I'm afraid, assuming you're referring to my forename?
Good to see you back, Mr H. The process of the sifting through of the dross, flotsam and jetsam of sarcasm, poor wit and outright hostility, bad speling and evan worst grammer becomes all worthwhile when suddenly a friend reappears, like a lotus amidst the detritus....
It is quite serious, but we must make the most out of our given situation, got laid off last friday, looking foreward to some time to do stuff i want to do.
Does anyone know of any weekday sessions in dublin?
I got laid off, sorry, sacked, six years ago. I wouldn't mind earning more money than I do currently, but it completely revitalised my music-making, and my social life, and that of 'Er Indoors too. There are more important things than making lots of money, although making enough money is always nice.
but this so called recession session-crunch hasn't affected our neck of S E London as Frank has started one up two months ago at The Gypsy Hill Tavern SE19 on a Sunday from 5pm and it's grand
The Recession Session
The Recession Session
Have you been laid off in the current economic climate?
Do you play a session instrument??
Do you find yourself with more time on your hands to practise your music???
Would you like to meet other people in the same situation as you are????
Why not start up a recession session with your fellow musicians. Its cheap, entertaining and now you can spend the time you always wanted to make music!!!!!
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by iluvpints
Re: The Recession Session
But I just sold my fiddle to feed my kids.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Pomme de Terre
Re: The Recession Session
Get into orbit, Spudnik.
I wish I found it so funny.
I'm fighting redundancy just now. There's a *vague* chance I might actually even win as I have good union representation, and the employer doesn't seem to have taken into account such things as redundancy payout and more importantly actuarial strain of my pension obligation. I'm angling for redeployment, and if HR has any sense they should go along with that. However, pride comes before a fall so maybe I ought not speak too soon.
The habitually limp-wristed and toothless Guardian carried an article on just this recently and they dead-on on this one. They reported redundancy, for people who had been in previously steady responsible jobs, can endow feelings akin to bereavement, and they are right. It's very strange how it works. When I worked as a carpenter I couldn't give a shining sh!te if I got sacked any day of the week. Now I'm all over the place. Gone too soft maybe, in this lower/middle management penpusher status.
Anyway, I'm sure recession sessions will start springing up all over the place. They used to have Wednesday aftenoon sessions in a pub in Dublin - the name escapes me now - could be Hughs'es - near Huston station. BTW they are now starting to call it "The 2nd Great Depression"...like the *2nd* World War ...pretty scary eh? Since the 2nd one was worse than the first?oh and not forgetting that the roots of the actual WW2 can be traced back to 1929 .......Just thought I'd cheer you all up at the launch of the so called Festive Season.....
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Rudall the time
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Danny, you should start a blog.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Pomme de Terre
Re: The Recession Session
Tell me how, O great vegetable vigilante. BTW, for a member of number 51680 how came yo know my name?
Does your real name begin with B? or A?
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Rudall the time
Re: The Recession Session
Some of us dear, delicate souls perused the archives before daring to sign up. Either that or we may have been reading on and off for many a year. And neither initial, I'm afraid, assuming you're referring to my forename?
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Pomme de Terre
Re: The Recession Session
Actually, "vegetable vigilante" is very good. But I think this is finally a well-behaved persona. After all, it's been posting tunes...
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Pomme de Terre
Re: The Recession Session
Good to see you back, Mr H. The process of the sifting through of the dross, flotsam and jetsam of sarcasm, poor wit and outright hostility, bad speling and evan worst grammer becomes all worthwhile when suddenly a friend reappears, like a lotus amidst the detritus....
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Rudall the time
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Hang on.... I'm confused.... bad spelling? bad grammar? are you referring to me, or the OP?
Just so you know, I have no animosity towards you. Seriously.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Pomme de Terre
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Mr H?
No, that's not me either. Sorry, I think I misconstrued your last.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Pomme de Terre
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Sorry - all meant in good spirit.
Alf
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Rudall the time
Re: The Recession Session
It is quite serious, but we must make the most out of our given situation, got laid off last friday, looking foreward to some time to do stuff i want to do.
Does anyone know of any weekday sessions in dublin?
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by iluvpints
Re: The Recession Session
If we had a Pomme de Terre famine that would mean real hard times were back.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by RichardB
Re: The Recession Session
I got laid off, sorry, sacked, six years ago. I wouldn't mind earning more money than I do currently, but it completely revitalised my music-making, and my social life, and that of 'Er Indoors too. There are more important things than making lots of money, although making enough money is always nice.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Guernsey Pete
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i've been found lilting " the sun'll come out tomorrow"
# Posted on December 5th 2008 by Lint - upon - Tweed
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I went busking in Yrok during the miners' strike and earned more money than working underground.
# Posted on December 7th 2008 by geoffwright
Re: The Recession Session
now that's something
but this so called recession session-crunch hasn't affected our neck of S E London as Frank has started one up two months ago at The Gypsy Hill Tavern SE19 on a Sunday from 5pm and it's grand
# Posted on December 31st 2008 by hungry grass