What would musicians do without alcohol? I'm not talking about the booze that many of them consume, but about the fact that without clubs, pubs and the profits they make from selling drink, many bands would have nowhere to play.
This was brought home yesterday when we played an early-evening gig at a pub in Sussex. The Sunday-lunchtime drinkers seemed to have no problem carrying on into the late afternoon. And when we took to the stand at 6pm, they carried on drinking, their ranks now swelled by the start of the night shift. By 9pm the place was completely packed and the bar sales showed no sign of levelling off.
We took our money and headed into the night, all of us stone-cold sober. Alcohol pays my wages. But the booze doesn't get its money straight back that easily...
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