Help Us Find A Missing Step

So, once again, a stellar night was had by a couple hundred people last Saturday at the Melody Reunion in New Brunswick. Honestly, really, it was great.

But it's Monday now, and we're staring at a cold, hard reality:

That scene's gone, and there isn't one to replace it.

We've been trying, too. Drew Ruiz, IronMike and myself, all Melody stalwarts, have been spinning tracks at Running W/Scissors nights at The Court Tavern on a monthly basis since November.

The first one did okay. The second tanked (an ice storm), the third drew a small, but spirited crew, and the last crowd, while spirited, was even smaller; not enough to justify keeping it up. Everybody that came loved the music; they even managed to stay all night - there's just not enough of them coming.

Have we been talking it up? Sure!

But apparently not to people that are actually likely to go out on a Thursday night. There are people that are, in fact, out, too. We see 'em. They just don't know we exist.

And that's gonna be the nail in our coffin unless we figure out how to clue them in.

Your input is very welcome. We're talking about finding Rutgers students and people who live in New Brunswick, NJ, who would leave their warm homes and venture into the cold to go to the Court Tavern, and dance to the challenging sort of thing we used to play at The Melody Bar, here and now, on a Thursday night, in 2008.

We're missing the step between "Play music in a nightclub" and "have people show up".

Can you help us find it?