Lemon Tree No More???

[daveofficer]

Originally Posted by blackisler

That is just one example of the completely inaacurate reporting by the press and sly and underhand way in which the council have handled this.

Two very important points have been missed. The council's ONLY offer was a short term loan of £250k on the basis that each of the 10 board members personally put up a guarantee of £25k from their own pockets. The council simply did not make the reported second offer and the one that they did make was untennable

ok, so obviously there's more going on here than was first supposed. can anyone explain the exact figures and process that occurred in the run up to the decision to go into voluntary liquidation? how much money did the council cut and when? how did that affect the amount of profit the lemon tree was making? would it have made a difference?

obivously there's a lot of strong feelings about this and the majority of relatively negative comments are based on disappointment rather than anything else i'm sure.

[delboy]

like most things in life the lemon tree was taken for granted and it is natural such a reaction is going to spark when its taken away. i was as guilty as the next person for not going there much (due to work committments i hardly go out at all anyway these days).

its just a damn shame that the venue is gone, we could go into the ins and outs and whys all day but i feel aberdeen won't be the same without it.

[Andy Mulhern]

Originally Posted by delboy

like most things in life the lemon tree was taken for granted and it is natural such a reaction is going to spark when its taken away. i was as guilty as the next person for not going there much (due to work committments i hardly go out at all anyway these days).

its just a damn shame that the venue is gone, we could go into the ins and outs and whys all day but i feel aberdeen won't be the same without it.

aye agreed. So embrace change, it won't be the same so make it a little different.
Its gone, goodbye, onwards.....

(ahem.... more Vocoustics dates announced very soon.... )

[lowball]

Originally Posted by delboy

like most things in life the lemon tree was taken for granted and it is natural such a reaction is going to spark when its taken away. i was as guilty as the next person for not going there much (due to work committments i hardly go out at all anyway these days).

its just a damn shame that the venue is gone, we could go into the ins and outs and whys all day but i feel aberdeen won't be the same without it.

13days till its officially gone!!!!!!!!!!

[delboy]

true still might be saved as yet!!!

[nesta6245]

Originally Posted by Mordred

Taken from the Press & Journal story:-

Councillors agreed unanimously that the venue should be offered the chance to take out a loan from the city council administered Aberdeen Business Enterprise Scheme, or the Lemon Tree could have had its overdraft facility underwritten up to a new limit by the local authority.

Neither option was taken up by the board.

Full story can be found Here

This is what I can't understand. Call me a sceptic but I wonder if anyone on the board has other interests ie property developing.

Hi, btw, I'm new here. If it wasn't for the Lemon Tree closure, I place I love and will sorely miss, I wouldn't have found this place. It's quite good, depending on how friendly you all are I might stay.

[daveofficer]

Originally Posted by nesta6245

This is what I can't understand. Call me a sceptic but I wonder if anyone on the board has other interests ie property developing.

Hi, btw, I'm new here. If it wasn't for the Lemon Tree closure, I place I love and will sorely miss, I wouldn't have found this place. It's quite good, depending on how friendly you all are I might stay.

welcome, as with most forums there are a few bad seeds but stick with it and you'll be fine. take most of what you read with a pinch of salt.

[nesta6245]

Originally Posted by daveofficer

welcome, as with most forums there are a few bad seeds but stick with it and you'll be fine. take most of what you read with a pinch of salt.

Cheers
Now back to the Lemon Tree. In the paper it's saying the staff are trying to raise a large amount of cash and have 2 weeks to do so. No mention of where I send my money though and how I can help. Madness gig tonight, I would be willing to stand outside the exhibition centre with a bucket before the gig collecting, same for Kaisers on Saturday. This is where they will get the donations, most people going to AECC for a gig will want to help save the place, sure a fair number of them will be LT regulars. To get the biggest benefit there would need to be a lot of us collecting.

Does anyone know how to go about contacting them?

[Flash@TMB]

My thoughts:

It's a real shame that the Lemon Tree has closed.

It's location didn't help. If it was located on Belmont Street then it would probably still be here.

Those that claim there are are shortage of venues in this city need a reality check... if there genuinely was a shortage then the LT would have been packed every night and making money. That's basic economics. If anything there is clearly a shortage of gig go-ers otherwise venues wouldn't keep going bust (that's umm 3 in the past 3 years). We'd do much better to promote our local music scene as a whole.

Drakes was a bigger loss IMO, and if we are to have a venue that is provided with financial assistance then something along those lines would be enormously beneficial to the local musicians... and would be deserving of financial assistance.

Musa caters for some of the performing arts type stuff that you used to find in the Lemon Tree, has a more appropriate capacity, and is more centrally accessible.

[Ollie]

Originally Posted by Flash@TMB

My thoughts:

It's a real shame that the Lemon Tree has closed.

It's location didn't help. If it was located on Belmont Street then it would probably still be here.

Those that claim there are are shortage of venues in this city need a reality check... if there genuinely was a shortage then the LT would have been packed every night and making money. That's basic economics. If anything there is clearly a shortage of gig go-ers otherwise venues wouldn't keep going bust (that's umm 3 in the past 3 years). We'd do much better to promote our local music scene as a whole.

Drakes was a bigger loss IMO, and if we are to have a venue that is provided with financial assistance then something along those lines would be enormously beneficial to the local musicians... and would be deserving of financial assistance.

Musa caters for some of the performing arts type stuff that you used to find in the Lemon Tree, has a more appropriate capacity, and is more centrally accessible.

wise comment. Drakes was a massive loss. There are a lot of talented musicians in this city. Drakes was a focal point for many years. Although I think that the Moorings is becoming central.