[Blacklabcollective] Money from shows

[Leggo Sirens]

Yeah lets have a meeting! I like the doodle, can we make one for April
meeting? As far as that stuff goes, I think making no BYOB will discourage
folks from coming/ lead to folks sneaking in beer anyway/ more conflict/
more bottlenecking at the door while bag checking, etc.

If it WAS no byob I think reducing the price of beer sales would be a good
idea (like if they are 1.37/can for us, then make em 3 bux so we are making
100% profit instead of 175% or whatever it is now) and maybe that would be
an incentive for folks to abide

As far as the door cut goes, I think on bigger nights with touring acts or
local only shows, taking 50% of door would work, but perhaps less attended
shows with touring bands we could try and afford to give the touring bands
as much as we can, and give the locals gas money, or nothing if they are
down.

Most people are understanding that it is a DIY space, and we can't have
raves like Red Gate (who take a lot more than we do) to pay our rent. Folks
will understand and if promoters are crafty, chill, DIY enough they can
work around costs and still put on a great gig.

But yeah, these are all just suggestions and ideas and I am obviously open
to discussion and whatever works for everyone.

 doodle me!!

Maybe at a meeting we could come up with a template for this that works for
everyone. Those are my thoughts.

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Megan Speers <speers.megan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm off mon-fri all month so pretty much whenever works for me. I think
> I've made my thoughts known as far as the money stuff goes. As it stands we
> are just scraping by and able to pay rent and I think until we have
> alternative sources of income we need the money from door. I don't like the
> idea of no BYOB, i get it in the context of noise fest liquor license but
> in general I feel like it'd make it feel like more of a bar and less of a
> diy space.... Anyways we can talk in person at the meeting! I have opinions
> tho
> On Mar 29, 2015 2:34 PM, "Lindsay Kasting" <l.kasting86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> HOW ABOUT TUESDAY APRIL 21!!!!~
>> 7PM!!!
>>
>> that's my pitch, anyways. :)
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Anju Singh
>>>
>>>
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