Anniversary Reunion Update

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Thanks for all your suggestions on the above mentioned topic. Here's what we've decided:
Ok, after a lot of research we've come to the conclusion that there is no other suitable venue for the Grove 40th Anniversary Reunion than where we're having them at the moment - The Shieling. There is nowhere with a bigger capacity. Most places e.g. The Clontarf Castle can only fit 400 standing. The Shieling can stretch to 450 and a few more... There's also nowhere that's not an official night club that can serve alcohol past 12:30am/1am. The alternative is to hold it in town, let's say for example The Isaac Butt/Radio City/The Cavern (the venue formerly collectively known as the Isaac Butt) where you have a collective capacity (between the 3 venues) of approx 1000, with a late licence til 2:30am. But I think a) holding it in a nightclub style venue where the crowd are divided between 3 rooms will detract (in a huge way) from the atmosphere. So that's not an option. And b) keeping it in the vicinity of the Clontarf/Raheny area is important.
St. Paul's is not an option - no bar - no reunion. It just won't work. As much as we'd like it to.
So, because at the past reunions it's been a case of fitting 30 years of music into the space of 5 and a half hours, and there's been a lot of complaints about choice of music on the occassions in question, we've decided to run two reunions: 
'67-'81 on the first night and '82-'97 on the second night. 
The first night will feature music that Cecil would've played at The Grove up until 1981. The second night will feature music that Cecil would've played at The Grove between 1982 and 1997 - obviously still including music from 1967 era right through to 1997. This way the Anniversary Reunions will be truer to the era of the Grove that the individuals went to.  
The events will happen back to back, most likely the Saturday & Sunday of the bank holiday weekend. We've not quite decided whether it will be at Easter or the June bank holiday. We'll let you know just as soon as it's confirmed. There will be no additional cost of tickets apart from a handling fee if we decide to go with Ticketmaster (for convenience sake). Both evenings will be charity events with profits from one going to The Cambodian Landmine Museum Relief Fund and the other to an irish charity (yet to be nominated). The www.thegrovesocialclub.com will be paying a professional P.R. agency to advertise and promote the events as well as using our own resources to ensure that as many ex-Grovers as possible are aware of the Anniversary reunions. These advertising costs will be recouped from the revenue generated from the events with all net profit going to the above charities. 
Merchandise and any additional issues will be addressed as soon as everything else has been confirmed.
Thanks,
Crusty.