Jazz Services National Touring Support Scheme Data 1992 – 2011 Presented By: Steve French Computer Consultant Jazz Services 132 Southwark Street London SE1 0SW Telephone: 0207 928 9089 Email: [email protected] Website: www.jazzservices.org.uk Facebook: British Jazz Twitter:@jazzservices 15th March 2012 Table of Contents FOREWORD ......................................................................................................................... 3 1. GENERAL ACTIVITY: FINANCIAL YEARS 1992-2011.................................................... 4 1.1 TABLE 1: Data Relating to the Financial Years April to March 1992/2011 .............................. 4 1.2 TABLE 1: Notes to the figures .................................................................................................. 5 2. BAND ACTIVITY: FINANCIAL YEARS 1992-2011 ........................................................... 6 2.1 TABLE 2: Data Relating to Band Award for Financial Years April to March 1992/2011 .......... 6 2.2 TABLE 2: Notes to the figures .................................................................................................. 7 3. REGIONAL STATISTICS 1992-2011 ................................................................................ 8 3.1 TABLE 3: Number of gigs by Financial Year and Region ........................................................ 8 3.2 TABLE 4: Gigs by Financial Year and Region as a Percentage 1992-2011 ............................ 9 3.3 TABLE 5: Number of gigs by Financial Year and Region as a % 1992-2011 ........................ 10 4. MONTHLY STATISTICS 1992-2011 ............................................................................... 11 4.1 TABLE 6: Number of gigs by Month ....................................................................................... 11 4.2 TABLE 7: Number of gigs by Month as a Percentage 1992-2011 ......................................... 12 5. MUSICIAN QUESTIONNAIRES 1992-2011 .................................................................... 13 5.1 TABLE 8: General Questions (percentage agreed) ............................................................... 13 5.2 TABLE 9: Questions Relating to Quality of Access, PA and Piano ........................................ 14 6. VENUE DATA 1992-2011 ............................................................................................... 15 6.1 TABLE 10: Venue Popularity (with greater than 10 Gigs) 1996-2011 .................................... 15 6.2 TABLE 11: Venue Popularity (with greater than 5 Gigs) 2010/11 .......................................... 16 7. BANDS 1992-2011.......................................................................................................... 17 7.1 TABLE 12: Bands Awarded NTSS Grants 1992-2012 ........................................................... 17 Foreword Since 1992 Jazz Services has been operating a National Touring Support Scheme whose aim is to use the JSL Touring Scheme to promote musicians and bands of merit not readily promoted by the commercial sector and other agencies and to maximise attendance at these events and reflect Jazz Services equal opportunities policy. The policy is mainly geared to small groups and covers the full range of jazz music, idioms and styles. The purpose of the scheme is to To broaden touring opportunities for musicians and include the full range of styles of jazz and related music. To encourage musicians and musicians' representatives to seek national touring opportunities To support and vitalise small-scale touring which enables British musicians (primarily) to develop national audiences and profile. To gather data on venues to refresh JSL’s information data base To encourage promoters and musicians and help increase the audience for jazz To help the selected bands in their promotional efforts by organising and mailing press releases, advising on publicity and marketing and promoting the tours through Jazz UK magazine Awards are up to a maximum of £2,500 for a minimum of 6 dates. Applications to the scheme may be made by musicians/bandleaders who are resident in the UK. Please note that dates in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland taken together, can constitute a maximum of 15% of the total dates. The scheme is open to any genre of jazz. The scheme is not open to people in full-time education. The figures are divided into two groups: Activity in a given financial year i.e. all gigs that take place in a financial year and the accompanying data Bands that have been given funds in a financial year and the upshot of the activity from that, whether it happens in that financial year or another. Steve French has, over the years, assiduously grappled with collecting the data and the results have picked up year on year. Between 1992 and 2011 Jazz Services helped 893 bands to tour, playing 6,751 gigs to nearly half a million people, generating box office of £2.7 million and musicians’ fees of £2.8 million. Our grateful thanks go to all the promoters, bands and musicians who have accomplished so much for jazz in the UK and a final thank you to Steve French for diligently collecting and preparing the data in the following tables. Please note these are statistical tables. For the bigger picture, please see Jazz Services reports for 2009/10 and 2010/11. Chris Hodgkins Director 1st March 2012 1. General Activity: Financial Years 1992-2011 1.1 TABLE 1: Data Relating to the Financial Years April to March 1992/2011 These figures relate to activity in the actual financial year 1.2 TABLE 1: Notes to the figures 2. Band Activity: Financial Years 1992-2011 2.1 TABLE 2: Data Relating to Band Award for Financial Years April to March 1992/2011 Note that these figures relate to the financial activity of the bands chosen in that year 2.2 TABLE 2: Notes to the figures 3. Regional Statistics 1992-2011 3.1 TABLE 3: Number of gigs by Financial Year and Region These figures relate to activity in the actual financial year 3.2 TABLE 4: Gigs by Financial Year and Region as a Percentage 1992-2011 These figures relate to activity in the actual financial year 3.3 TABLE 5: Number of gigs by Financial Year and Region as a % 1992-2011 These figures relate to activity in the actual financial year 4. Monthly Statistics 1992-2011 4.1 TABLE 6: Number of gigs by Month These figures relate to activity in the actual financial year 4.2 TABLE 7: Number of gigs by Month as a Percentage 1992-2011 These figures relate to activity in the actual financial year 5. Musician Questionnaires 1992-2011 5.1 TABLE 8: General Questions (percentage agreed) These figures relate to activity in the actual financial year These are the results of the yes/no questionnaire aspects of the musician questionnaire (Word document of questionnaire available on request): 5.2 TABLE 9: Questions Relating to Quality of Access, PA and Piano These figures relate to activity in the actual financial year These are the questions relating to the quality of the Access to the venues, the quality of the PA (if applicable) and the quality of the piano (if applicable). These were given as marks out of 5. It’s important to note here that the current database accepts any value in this field, so needs to be addressed ASAP: RESPONSES AVERAGES PA PA Year Piano Piano Access Access Financial 1992-1993 88 79 65 2.8 2.7 2.6 1993-1994 128 119 74 3.7 3.2 3.2 1994-1995 105 96 57 3.6 3.5 3.2 1995-1996 125 115 104 3.3 2.8 2.2 1996-1997 235 235 234 3.0 2.4 1.6 1997-1998 292 292 292 3.4 2.9 2.0 1998-1999 216 216 216 3.4 2.8 1.7 1999-2000 222 222 219 3.4 2.6 2.3 2000-2001 240 203 151 3.5 3.3 3.0 2001-2002 266 215 150 3.3 3.1 2.8 2002-2003 371 305 208 3.5 3.4 3.2 2003-2004 310 275 147 3.6 3.5 3.0 2004-2005 396 329 226 3.7 3.5 2.9 2005-2006 364 358 323 3.8 3.0 1.3 2006-2007 398 398 393 3.7 3.2 2.3 2007-2008 334 335 334 3.4 2.7 1.5 2008-2009 391 389 388 3.8 3.0 2.1 2009-2010 400 399 398 3.7 3.2 1.6 2010-2011 393 393 393 3.7 3.3 1.8 6. Venue Data 1992-2011 6.1 TABLE 10: Venue Popularity (with greater than 10 Gigs) 1996-2011 These figures relate to activity in the actual financial year 6.2 TABLE 11: Venue Popularity (with greater than 5 Gigs) 2010/11 These figures relate to activity in the actual financial year Venue Gigs Vortex Jazz Club 13 Stoke by Nayland Hotel Golf & Spa 12 Dempseys 11 606 Club 11 Wakefield Sports Club 10 Bonington Theatre 10 Future Inn Cabot Circus Hotel 10 Komedia 9 Pizza Express Jazz Club 8 Jagz Club at the Station 7 Matt & Phred's Jazz Club 7 Millennium Hall 7 Hawth 6 Symphony Hall Foyer 6 Bridge Hotel 6 Campus West - Hawthorne Studio 6 The Chapel - No. 1 Shakespeare Street 6 Seven Artspace 5 St Giles Church - The Crypt 5 7. Bands 1992-2011 7.1 TABLE 12: Bands Awarded NTSS Grants 1992-2012 These figures relate to the NTSS Periods Gigs Band NTSSPeriod FinancialYear 1992-1993 01/07/1992 Charlie Hearnshaw Quartet 11 1992-1993 01/07/1992 Colville Collection 5 1992-1993 01/07/1992 Deirdre Cartwright Group 16 1992-1993 01/07/1992 Ed Jones Quintet 12 1992-1993 01/07/1992 Eddie Parker's Mister Vertigo 14 1992-1993 01/07/1992 Free in E 5 1992-1993 01/07/1992 Full Monte 4 1992-1993 01/10/1992 Hornweb 6 1992-1993 01/10/1992 Howard Riley - Elton Dean Quartet-Duo 7 1992-1993 01/10/1992 John Etheridge Quartet 17 1992-1993 01/10/1992 Kelvin Christiane Band 7 1992-1993 01/01/1993 Lammas (David Gordon) 11 1992-1993 01/01/1993 Perfect Houseplants 11 1992-1993 01/01/1993 Theo Travis Quartet 9 1992-1993 01/01/1993 Within the Word 3 1993-1994 01/04/1993 Billy Jenkins Voice of God Collective 5 1993-1994 01/04/1993 Christine