Terry Jennings

Over the past two years we have been regular, indeed frequent, patrons of this music venue. The ambiance of JaoTim provides the ideal conditions to create the perfect atmosphere to really enjoy the musical performances and we have had many memorable nights enjoying the performances of various, highly talented, local performers and we have always found the JaoTim staff to be very friendly. Having said that, JaoTim is not perfect, there are many negatives. The really uncomfortable seats, the very limited and never changing food menu, the expensive drinks and only one choice of beer. Ladies, you will hate the fact that there is only one female toilet and there isn't even a changing room for the performers, so they are forced to sit near the bar putting on their makeup. However we have happily put up with and tended to look past all of these. That was until 30th May 2024 when we attended a Jazz show by 'Boys That Swing'. The performance put on by these five young local musicians was great, but the evening was utterly ruined by a table of middle aged men and women that talked incessantly. We asked them to be quiet, but this request was ignored. At the interval we even moved forward to a then empty table to get away from them, but a few minutes later another couple arrived, joined this group and the talking started over again. We asked them a second time to be quiet or if they must talk to relocate to the far end of the venue, their reply was to tell us to move closer to the band!
This is a 'pay to enter' music venue and so the ability to be able to enjoy the performance should be a given and the venue management should ensure such bad behaviour is dealt with immediately, for no other reason than respect to paying customers and also the performers. We saw nothing to indicate that the JaoTim management even care.