[Blacklabcollective] Money from shows

[Lindsay Kasting]

I think these are good ideas but its also important and has to do with how
we generate money to keep ourselves running. I think we need to talk about
this in person, at a meeting.

Speaking of, did the April meeting date get set?
On Mar 29, 2015 2:25 PM, "Anju Singh" <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> something I forgot to add to the agenda is how we take money from shows.
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> I've brought this up before but a lot of the really good shows with draw
> that we would want to host are difficult for promoters to do at our space
> with the money being 50% of the door.
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> I highly recommend we reduce this to 25%-30% rather than 50% or have a
> flat fee. Since we take 100% of the bar, we can make our shows no byob
> (especially as we get more legit we will do this, I'll be doing this for
> noise fest as a test run).
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> If we do this I suggest we post online and let people know about the
> change. We have people hesitant to book with us because it's a large cut.
> If a band with a bigger draw comes through, the promoter wants to pay them
> well. 50% is a lot for a struggling travelling band to give up.
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> I know we need money but I think this model discourages bigger shows from
> happening at our space. This might work out financially better for us...
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> Thoughts?
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