I am pushed for chives

We were on Radio Merseyside on Sunday night; Dave Monk played Dull Boy on his show, which was nice. There was a debate at the beginning of the show about the Liverpool music scene. I’m not really sure what conclusion they came to. I imagine they didn’t come to one.

I don’t know much about what is going on, beyond the fact that there is usually something of some sort going on somewhere. Sometimes someone is watching, sometimes someone is doing it by themselves. With regards to the music scene I would say this:

1. There are a lot of bands
2. There are a lot of venues

Not all of the bands are good at what they do. Some are ok. Some are poor. The same can be said about the venues. If we hypothesise that the distribution of band quality and venue quality is random then we can predict that the probability of seeing any of the following is equal:

1. A good band in a good venue
2. A good band in an ok venue
3. A good band in a poor venue
4. An ok band in a good venue
5. An ok band in an ok venue
6. An ok band in a poor venue
7. A poor band in a good venue
8. A poor band in an ok venue
9. A poor band in a poor venue

If we do randomly distribute these possibilities 1000 times we would get something like this:

However, when I used real figures, we get something a little more shocking:

That’s right people, using the figures I obtained from TIPISS last Tuesday lunchtime we can see that you are more likely to see a poor band in an ok venue than anything else.

People this is big. I urge you to do nothing about it.