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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:20 pm
by rbnc
I just wanna say something.
This scene and any other scene (well maybe not in Cuba or North Korea), is a free-market economy where the market decides the value of something.
If they charge 2.5k and aren't getting any shows then they will need to charge less: the market has decided their value.
If a DJ wants to charge £2.5k and they are getting it regularly, that obviously is right: the market has decided their value.
If they are constantly getting 2.5k and filling out clubs and they start charging more and people are happy to pay: the market has decided their value.
If you don't think they are worth it, don't book them, if lots of people stop booking them they will lower their price. If they're not maybe you've missed a trick
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:23 pm
by Wolverine
id dj for free, just get me to the venue, and get me drinks, sorted
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:08 pm
by promo
RBNC wrote:This scene and any other scene (well maybe not in Cuba or North Korea), is a free-market economy where the market decides the value of something.
Yes, that is true. The problem started way back when promoters started to run nights not to make a profit but rather to put on a show. All honourable except that results in largely loss making nights.
All the small to medium nights I know of make no money and struggle to cover their costs especially if they're putting on names which I'm just not convinced add all that except more cost. And with the big nights the margins are tight as fuck with ridiculous risk/cost.
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:01 pm
by promo
Okay, just been to a night recently where for example 1 of the artists playing cost a few hundred quid as I discovered from the promoter. The other artists may have cost a few hundred together too. There were barely 50 people thru the door. On top of that you've got venue hire fee. The artist, who is fn talented, certainly did not pull 40 people which would have been necessary to cover his few hundred fee so in short paying name djs doesn't work.
As I've already spelt out a million times, its the promoters who bring the people to a night. I suspect I was prolly the only one who came for him.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:39 am
by deamonds
The size of signatures on forums has definately increased
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:49 pm
by surface_tension
RBNC wrote:I just wanna say something.
This scene and any other scene (well maybe not in Cuba or North Korea), is a free-market economy where the market decides the value of something.
If they charge 2.5k and aren't getting any shows then they will need to charge less: the market has decided their value.
If a DJ wants to charge £2.5k and they are getting it regularly, that obviously is right: the market has decided their value.
If they are constantly getting 2.5k and filling out clubs and they start charging more and people are happy to pay: the market has decided their value.
If you don't think they are worth it, don't book them, if lots of people stop booking them they will lower their price. If they're not maybe you've missed a trick
Get out of my head/economical theory.