Hi, the following may look like a sob story, but it's not meant to be, I'm just interested in opinions. I'm in an amateur band and one of the other guys in the band has lung cancer in one lung, the kind that's related to asbestos exposure. If we're lucky he'll be ok for this year, but his general state is very up and down. He's just started chemo, so he's currently feeling pretty grotty indeed. Anyway his biggest wish is to carry on playing for as long as possible. He's an excellent musician and a lovely chap and we all love him to bits and want to support him in that wish. The slight problem is that we can book up gigs, but we don't know that on any given night, he'll be fit enough to play. So we're faced with the possibility of having to cancel gigs at short notice, although this hasn't happened yet. My own opinion is to just see how we go for now. Most of our paid gigs are in pubs and I don't have any qualms about cancelling at the last minute 'due to a sudden illness'. I've had plenty of pub gigs cancelled because they messed up their bookings. Obviously it's not something we can do time and time time again though. It's a bit of an open ended question, but does anyone else have any opinions on how to deal with this? Ta.
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If a deep isn't an option this is a good idea-if you could get a few bands on board it should work, I'm sure there would be plenty of bands sympathetic to the situation and be up for short notice gigs. Where you based, might be some on here?
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It's a good suggestion though, I have a good working relationship with two other local bands who I trust to do a good job - we all recommend each other when we're offered bookings we can't do.