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pandaemonaeum) wrote2009-12-21 03:21 pm
pandaemonaeum) wrote2009-12-21 03:21 pm
And Another Thing
This 'free gig' RAtM are promising to play, how's that going to work then?
Here are just some of the things a promoter has to pay for:
venue, equipment hire, staff (sound engineer(s), lighting engineers, bouncers, ticketing staff) catering - feeding and watering the band and crew, accommodation, advertising, any visas/ licenses required, travel for band and crew.
If the venue is a field, you can add stage hire, rig hire, transport costs, toilet facilities, licensing, even MORE staff, parking facilities, camping facilities, temporary fencing, policing costs.
Who's footing that bill then? Don't see it being the record company - they can't wring out even more publicity from this, can they? Unless the band are footing the bill and covering the cost with paying dates (HA! who's going to pay to see a band when they can see them for free?) and/ or a new album, it's going to be CORPORATE sponsorship, I would guess.
Unless they do a free festival, and every band on before them pays on to cover costs...
But hey, let's not let the realities of the modern music industry spoil this magnanimous gesture :/
Here are just some of the things a promoter has to pay for:
venue, equipment hire, staff (sound engineer(s), lighting engineers, bouncers, ticketing staff) catering - feeding and watering the band and crew, accommodation, advertising, any visas/ licenses required, travel for band and crew.
If the venue is a field, you can add stage hire, rig hire, transport costs, toilet facilities, licensing, even MORE staff, parking facilities, camping facilities, temporary fencing, policing costs.
Who's footing that bill then? Don't see it being the record company - they can't wring out even more publicity from this, can they? Unless the band are footing the bill and covering the cost with paying dates (HA! who's going to pay to see a band when they can see them for free?) and/ or a new album, it's going to be CORPORATE sponsorship, I would guess.
Unless they do a free festival, and every band on before them pays on to cover costs...
But hey, let's not let the realities of the modern music industry spoil this magnanimous gesture :/
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I didn't say RAtM would take corporate sponsorship - I said a promoter would. It's splitting hairs, but if they get a promoter, they'll get sponsorship to help cover costs, and that will be corporate, as it's virtually the only kind available.
A band WILL NOT spend its own money to play a free gig in a different country. When you get into these leagues, you are talking tens of thousands of pounds. What makes you think I have no experience of this level of the music industry? I have festival experience, I know the sums (and the logistics) involved.
I find it hilarious that everyone goes on about RAtM being anti-corporate when they're on a major label.
I re-iterate, bands don't spend their own money to do these gigs, however much they have. The money has to come from somewhere - and as Kev has pointed out, a promoter is already involved. They'll ask supports to buy on, they'll get corporate sponsorship, and the music industry machine will go on.
BTW I never use wikipedia as a source, it's entirely unreliable as anyone can alter a wiki page :)