[Blacklabcollective] Money from shows

[Anju Singh]

Ya for sure it wouldn't be agreed on until the meeting, but food for
thought in the meantime. I'll be proposing this for sure.

And no we need an april meeting date!

On Sunday, March 29, 2015, Lindsay Kasting <l.kasting86 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','aanjusingh at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> something I forgot to add to the agenda is how we take money from shows.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
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>> --
>> Anju Singh
>>
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Anju Singh
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