Random Music Talk CX: Obscured By Cobbler

[iron yuppie]

Barely anyone makes a solid living off music and touring alone anymore. A band like Wilco sure as hell isn't living off the one-thousandth of a cent they get from each Spotify play.

 

[cobl04]

For fans of Beach House, or just super chill, low-fi dreamy pop/soft rock, I would absolutely recommend you listen to Mac Demarco's new EP. All over in less than 25 minutes, really nice.

 

[martha]

And while they will sell pretty much anything with a Kiss logo on it, they actually have always kept their ticket prices reasonable, their die hard fans don't feel like they get ripped off.

A co-worker is a massive fan, and from what she tells me, every penny is up on the stage. It sounds like a hell of a show.

 

[IWasBored]

That was the one thing I noticed about the Dropkick Murphys--speaking of bands who will slap their logo on anything and sell it. I don't think they've upped their ticket prices more than 5 bucks in the last decade.

 

[liamcool]

Didn't Fugazi do a similar thing, where they actively struggled to keep ticket prices as low as possible? They started with a ticket price of $5 in the early 90s, as that meant they could still maintain a profit, and only raised it to $10 or $15 as the cost of touring (fuel etc) rose.

 

[IWasBored]

That sounds like something they would have done.

996 posts and cobbler is online. Tread carefully, folks.

 

[liamcool]

For anyone interested, here's an article detailing Pomplamoose's touring profits/losses in 2014. https://medium.com/@jackconte/pomplamoose-2014-tour-profits-67435851ba37

It shows that they made an $11,819 loss for four weeks of touring; personally, I think that could have been avoided if they had cut from the production expenses, but maybe that stuff's essential to having a good show for them? Dunno.

 

[cobl04]

Nine hundred and ninety-eight.

 

[cobl04]

Nine hundred and ninety-nine...

 

[liamcool]

Just do it. Tear the band aid off.