Do you keep doing the same Manchester rooms once you know them well?
I’m starting to get the opposite problem from being brand new: there are a few rooms where I know the journey, the setup and roughly how the night works, so they’re easy to keep booking. That’s useful, but I’m wondering when familiarity stops helping and starts making the gig diary too comfortable. Do you deliberately keep some regular rooms while rotating new ones in, or just go wherever you can get useful stage time?