Ethnography Results - Week 4

This week, I went to Schotzi's again on Thursday night to watch two bands: Shane Smith and The Secret of Boris. The website said that it would start at 9:00, but when I arrived at 9:30 they were still in the process of sound testing. In fact, they continued sound testing until about 10:10, at which point some of the band actually did some karaoke inside. Despite the large genre difference between the artists, they actually seemed to have a rapport with one another.




As far as attendance went, by 10:00 there were only 20 people in the bar, not including the artists. By 11:00, there was only somewhere between 30 and 35. At about 11:30 however, that number nearly doubled. I do believe that this increase is due more to the time than the bands, because most of these people didn't go outside or upstairs to watch them.







By the time I left at slightly past midnight, nearly 100 people were in the bar as a whole, but only about 20 were outside with Shane Smigh and 5 were upstairs with the rock band. I am curious if this is due more to the day or the bands.

Next week, I am going to delay heading to the bar until 10:30 or 11, since it appears that the artists rarely get started until then.