to be honest i wasn’t paying all that much attention to what you were playing initially, because what you played seemed to fit well with the mood of the room. it wasn’t until you started hunting, shifting styles trying to ‘get the crowd back’, that i started to take notice.

thing is, that venue is tiny – only room for a half-dozen or so groups of people. think of it statistically. only a few groups of people need to decide to move on to whatever else they might’ve had planned (or just go home, or whatever) to give you the impression that they left because of you, when perhaps it had nothing at all to do with you (esp. given your reception a fortnight earlier, which unlike a large club venue, was probably an entirely different set of people).

but then, when you go shifting styles in an attempt to stop what you think is an exodus, those who were happy there become restless, & move on.

as you say, a venue like that is entirely different to a larger gig where people will go away for a breather or a drink if they don’t like what you play & give you a chance to adjust. but that doesn’t necessarily mean that in a small venue like little peninsula that if they leave it’s because they don’t like what you’re playing. maybe they were just leaving. sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

anyways, i’m lookin forward to another gig some time