Soundtracked 47: John Goes Guelph
Like Defne and Ashley one year earlier we knew months in advance that Jon and John would be leaving Oshawa come September and we resigned ourselves to those facts. With John having been a team member for one full year and a patron of Broken Arts for two years we knew we had to give him a proper send-off.
Soundtracked 47: John Goes Guelph August 23, 2013 @ Wasted Space live: Bruce McKenna I, The Mountain Mountain Calling Broken Arts lineup: Harley, John, Kathleen, Kat, Vanessa, Sierra
Tradition called for John to headline his show. It was the second Mountain Calling appearance at Soundtracked but the first as a four-piece band. Peterborough musician I, The Mountain had come to our attention on Canada Day at the lake and Cane Toad Bruce McKenna, who had moved to Ottawa for university but was back in town for a few weeks, rounded out the lineup.
There were 11 people totaling the performers and Broken Arts members; 12 people paid at the door. We had realized by this point that attendance dropped significantly for shows held between April and August but even by summer standards the number was dismal. We had got three times as many people out for our August 2012 show. We had been losing patrons steadily throughout 2013 and now we were losing John too, one of our biggest supporters for years. We still advertised and promoted every show. We handed out flyers and our Facebook likes were upward of 600. Yet of those 600 individuals less than 25 came out to say goodbye to a year-long team member. The fear that nobody really cares about us or what we do began to fester.