[matilda] members only events (was Re: c90/ ticketing and fixed event prices)

[gavin at cyber-rights.net]

I'm not going to do it, but if someone interested in this wants to 
contact the common place in Leeds and ask them about it, they do 
this members thing for all their gigs and so on.

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:33:10 -0700 dougald hine 
<writetodougald at gmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks for the information, Steve.
>
>I imagine there will be two concerns:
>
>1. The idea of having 'members' makes Matilda seem exclusive
>
>2. The idea that people have to give name and address on arriving,
>writing it somewhere that might even be shown to the police, is 
>likely
>to alarm people
>
>That said, we do need to think seriously about using this as a way 

>to
>organise events.
>
>If we go on the way we have done, it'll be the parties that get us
>closed down a lot sooner than we would otherwise have been.
>
>Should we put this on the agenda for Monday? (Not as applying to 
>the
>C90 event, which has already been messed about more than enough, 
>but
>for events beyond that.)
>
>On 9/28/05, atw <againstthewar at totalserve.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Dougald,
>>
>> To make it members only event you need a list of names and 
>possibly
>> addresses of members. Membership can be free and at the Ceildih
>> society people join when they arrive.
>>
>> If the police do come then one can say in honesty that this is a
>> private members event and look - here is our list of members. 
>This
>> gets you round problematic laws like the need for an 
>entertainments
>> licence etc and also I think means you can rightfully turn the 
>police
>> away too (unless they have a search warrant - which is 
>unlikely).
>>
>> steve
>>
>
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