I am sure the subject has been covered, but not sure if anyone thinks of this. Large venues, in this day and age cost £1000s to put on. You do the maths.
Hire of decent venue with good facilities and maybe more than one room averages about £2-3000 give or take ( you may be lucky and get it cheaper)
Legal, ticketed security roughly £10 per hour per man/woman
PA hire most large rooms £4-800 less on smaller rooms
Flyer's and advertising £200plus or minus a bit
Bill for DJ Varies massively depending who you hire( big names bigger money!)
Sometimes a cleaning bill
extras such as phone bills from ringing DJs promoting and other overlooked bits
The promoter, will then work his/her/their butt off to promote and push their event, so they at least break even profit is great debt is hell! With all that at risk they make sure they have a good sound system, DJs customers want etc.
Out of the blue, the date it's all booked, someone is offered a venue for nothing, as it's run down and past it's best and the manager will do owt for customers, bouncers are two guys that will do it for beers and £20.... you get the picture.
ALL EVENTS can be canceled and if a promoter is willing to lay so much out for soul fans (yes profit if possible) then you CAN move your date or cancel. If you stand to loose a few quid for the flyer's you've had printed, then it's not out of the question to ring the promoter and explain, he may prefer to help you out than loose 50 of his punters(no harm asking).
I have spoken to every promoter of know nighters, and not yet found one of them to be unaproachable.......yes all very different personalities and some way more helpful than others but none to be totally ignorant.(offend them and it may be different!!)
We ran a one off Nighter a while ago and I rang every promoter or spoke to them, to make sure of a clear date, so many were surprised and all were happy to help me avoid their dates, all so easy
I AM NOT ALONE IN SAYING, STOP SLICING UP AND DIVIDING OUR SCENE, NIGHTER FANS ARE DRIFTING AWAY DUE TO EVENTS CLASHING WHICH IS EMPTYING VENUES EVERYWHERE
If you want to DJ ask and keep asking, don't just put on and event to DJ at
I am sure I will get abuse from someone, for this but here goes!!!!
I am sure the subject has been covered, but not sure if anyone thinks of this. Large venues, in this day and age cost £1000s to put on. You do the maths.
The promoter, will then work his/her/their butt off to promote and push their event, so they at least break even profit is great debt is hell! With all that at risk they make sure they have a good sound system, DJs customers want etc.
Out of the blue, the date it's all booked, someone is offered a venue for nothing, as it's run down and past it's best and the manager will do owt for customers, bouncers are two guys that will do it for beers and £20.... you get the picture.
ALL EVENTS can be canceled and if a promoter is willing to lay so much out for soul fans (yes profit if possible) then you CAN move your date or cancel. If you stand to loose a few quid for the flyer's you've had printed, then it's not out of the question to ring the promoter and explain, he may prefer to help you out than loose 50 of his punters(no harm asking).
I have spoken to every promoter of know nighters, and not yet found one of them to be unaproachable.......yes all very different personalities and some way more helpful than others but none to be totally ignorant.(offend them and it may be different!!)
We ran a one off Nighter a while ago and I rang every promoter or spoke to them, to make sure of a clear date, so many were surprised and all were happy to help me avoid their dates, all so easy
I AM NOT ALONE IN SAYING, STOP SLICING UP AND DIVIDING OUR SCENE, NIGHTER FANS ARE DRIFTING AWAY DUE TO EVENTS CLASHING WHICH IS EMPTYING VENUES EVERYWHERE
If you want to DJ ask and keep asking, don't just put on and event to DJ at
I am sure I will get abuse from someone, for this but here goes!!!!