Where is The Live Music in The North Costa Blanca?

Where is The Live Music in The North Costa Blanca?-Live Music – we all love it in one form or another – whether a classical orchestral concert or a Rock concert in a football stadium or somewhere in between, nothing quite gets the juices flowing than hearing your favourite song played live. If you live in South Costa Blanca or the Costa Del Sol, there is an abundance of venues and musicians.

But where is it in North Costa Blanca?

Go to Javea or Benidorm on any night of the week you will find a bar playing live music, but try finding anything in Oliva, Ontinyent or roundabouts and you’d be lucky to find the odd publican playing a banjo.

So where is all the talent? It does exist and there are some very good musicians around, with excellent repertoire and great personalities. Each has a different musical style entertain the crowds differently – and all are crowd pleasers. So the problem is not lack of talent – the problem is where to play.

Up until very recently it was difficult to find anywhere to host live music, in part because of the local council attitude who frown upon live music yet are happy to allow loud fireworks at 2AM. However it’s also due to the apathy of the listening public. When a venue organises live music the owner has to pay the artists. If only ten people turn up then he has lost money. Most of these venues don’t charge a cover or add to the drinks prices, they hope enough people turn up to make it worth their while.

But imagine going for four weeks and managing to get 10 people in. Wouldn’t you be disheartened? I’m sure I would. They may be nice people but they’re also business people who make a living.

In some venues the owners put on live music and the turnout is indifferent. These places need a regular following to keep going and only by doing so will we get to see more acts, because the acts will only come if there is a crowd to play to – and that means you need to do something.

So how do you find out about what’s going on. Well there are a number of sources. The Inland Trader for one, has a what’s on guide to keep you informed. There is also a great website www.spanishbrolly.com where you can find information about who’s playing where, and www.spanishproperty-direct.co.uk has many articles about live music and reviews of artists.
But these sources also need the input from both the venues and artists.

So we have a responsibility for helping to make a success of live music. If you know a venue organising live music go and visit – you may enjoy yourself. Invite your friends, tell their friends, word of mouth is great advertising. The musicians need venues to play and crowds to play to, the venues need our support to keep providing us with live music, so we need to get behind the venues that put on live music – not next week, next month – but NOW – it’s for our benefit after all and what better than sitting outdoors with a nice cold drink, listening to a great band playing your favourite music. . Where else can you get free live music?

The listening public need to get behind our venues and support them – they do a thankless task of providing music, dealing with artists ego’s and getting paid nothing for it, so the least we can do is support them. Go do something different today and visit a live concert. See you there!!