The Brudenell Social Club

Thanks VERY much to Neil from Napoleon IIIrd and Sean from Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames for wearing Brudenell t-shirts onstage at the Leeds festival. (The BBC site shows Napoleon IIIrd on stage, with Neil on the right of the pic).

T-shirts are available from the club for £6, or from this site for £8 (the extra £2 covers postage, packaging and PayPal fees). All the profits go towards the purchase of a new PA for the Club. To buy one, see the Brudenell fundraising shop.
Thanks also to the Leeds Guide for publicising our t-shirts, and our fundraising, in the current issue.

You’ll see a little fundraising progress bar around the site now - on this page, it’s sitting on the right below the links. As you’ll see, we’ve now broken the £1000 mark and have cash to buy a Mackie desk and a new amp. Once these are installed, the PA will be more robust. We’ll be able to broaden the range of sound engineers that can use it, and start training those who wish to use the PA system in the future.

Finally, we decided to apply to Awards for All for a £10,000 grant towards our target and have almost finished the application, so we will keep you up to date with our progress. Many thanks to Jamie at Oblong for his help, and to James Monaghan, Lib Dem councillor for Headingley, for agreeing to assist us with the application.

The next meeting regarding PA fundraising is on Wednesday 30th August at 6pm in the lounge bar at the Brudenell.

Jonny has been handing out Brudenell t-shirts backstage at the Leeds Festival, with the hope of getting some to appear on stage and on TV. Watch out for Napoleon IIIrd (today) and Sean from Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames (tomorrow) wearing them.

All profit from sales of Brudenell t-shirts will go towards buying the venue a new £15,000 PA.

Incidentally, Franz Ferdinand are selling t-shirts which list all the gigs they have done to date - including their secret Brudenell gig in March 2004.

in the lounge bar, brudenell-everyones welcome!

As Jonny has mentioned on the gojonnygogogogo website, last Saturday’s Jeff Lewis gig raised more than £550 for the Brudenell PA fund. We’re now in a position to buy the first piece of the PA, a mixing desk, and we hope to have this installed by mid-September.

We’ve sent the minutes from the Entertainments Committee meeting to the Yahoo group, but they don’t seem to have been posted yet - perhaps Yahoo is catching up! In the meantime, you can read them on this thread on the Cops and Robbers forum.

The Ents Committee will be meeting up at 6pm tonight in the members’ bar at the Brudenell.

The next two benefit gigs are…

Saturday August 19th, 2006: Gojonnygogogogo presents Jeffrey Lewis, D.Millard, Ian Cockburn + PartyParty DJs. At the Commonplace, Wharfe Street (near the Corn Exchange). £5, 9pm-2am. Cans £1.25.
Saturday September 2nd, 2006: Room237 presents Foals, Great Eskimo Hoax, Ruby Tombs, Sierpinski. At the Brudenell. £4.

All door profits from these gigs will go towards buying the Brudenell a new PA system.

…are selling well.

Thanks to everyone who has bought one so far.

Here’s the black version, modelled by Jonny (and Roly).

The Brudenell features at number 149 in the Leeds Guide’s ‘Top 150 things we love about Leeds’ feature. Jimmy Saville came in at number 5.

for raising £100 for the PA fund at their gig on tuesday, thats REALLY appreciated !!

lounge bar, 6.30pm.
everyone is welcome.

claire and i will have finished/posted the lottery application by then, and we need to discuss a new desk and sound person crew.

The minutes from last night’s Entertainments Committee meeting are available to read on our Yahoo group.

The Entertainments Committee will be meeting up tomorrow evening (Wednesday 2nd August) at around 6pm in the Lounge bar. If you’re interested in helping out with the fundraising, please come along.

Here are a couple of fundraisers in August, the proceeds from which will be given to the Brudenell PA fund. Please support these events - our first target is to raise £4,000 by January 1st, and our overall target is £15,000.

August 8th, 2006: Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames, Redcarsgofaster, Ever Since The Lake Caught Fire, The Vellocet. At the Brudenell. £4.

August 19th, 2006: Gojonnygogogogo presents Jeffrey Lewis, D.Millard, Ian Cockburn + PartyParty DJs. At the Commonplace, Wharfe Street (near the Corn Exchange). £5, 9pm-2am. Cans £1.25 - bar profits to Commonplace PA fund, door profits to Brudenell PA fund.

The new Brudenell website is now up, and functioning pretty well, I hope.

The pages are in two sections: the links at the top left hold the main site content, and the links under ‘Updates’ will give you the most recent blog-style posts, like this one. (Nerd note: blog posts are also available via RSS.)
In the coming weeks, we will be re-writing the site content, putting a few pictures up, and letting you know exactly what is happening with our drive to buy a new PA for the venue.