Satyricon CANCELLED![views:21167][posts:63]_________________________________ [Dec 17,2004 12:41pm - tobin ""] SacreligionNlI said:obviously...but all we're doing is promoting a show people seem to forget that all the bands we listen to started out as local bands. if you don't take a chance on something you've never heard before once in a while and support the local scene, eventually there will be nothing good out there at all. |
| ___________________________________ [Dec 17,2004 12:45pm - succubus ""] actually, if you know this site you know that there are a lot of local bands on it i think people have an issue with pay to play shows |
| ________________________________ [Dec 17,2004 1:32pm - tobin ""] i do know this site and i do know there are a lot of local bands on it. the problem is that if a new band shows up that's not part of the clique, they get all but blacklisted. remember, not every band you've never heard of is some nu-metal garbage that doesn't deserve a chance. for all you know, the coolest band you'll ever hear is playing in a basement somewhere, and sadly enough probably won't be able to get anyone out to see them play when they start doing shows. |
| ___________________________________ [Dec 17,2004 1:38pm - ShadowSD ""] succubus said:i think people have an issue with pay to play shows So do I, but I don't think that's a fair characterization here, I've booked Sacreligion at Club Marque several times and they've NEVER had to pay to play, in fact they always made money. I only book bands on shows like this if they tell me they can sell more than enough tickets not to pay anything out of pocket. (And if it were up to me, ALL the ticket money would go to the bands. Unfortunately, it costs money to rent venues, make tickets, hire roadies/dooruys, and bring a huge PA from Connecticut, and I can't afford to pay it all myself.) Try and find another venue where a local band can make $100 for selling twenty tickets. The Webster pays you nothing until you sell forty tickets and after that pays you $1 per ticket. Jarrod's doesn't pay you a penny until twenty-five tickets. Even most dinky hall shows will only give you a couple dollars per ticket if you sell twenty, so that's not even half what you'd make with this system. And as far as shows with no tickets, where everyone comes to the door? A friend of mine's band recently played Club Liquid and drew around fifty people, only to be told by the end of the night, well you guys drew ten people so here's fifty bucks. The club was the one with all the money in their hands, so what was the band going to do? Fuck that shit. The shows I put on are the ONLY ones around where all the money exhanges hands between myself and the bands before the clubs can even touch it, so there's no chance of a club owner suddenly deciding they want a bigger cut, or saying a band brought less people than they did. If my friend's band had played one of my shows instead the one they did, they would have made $400. I designed this whole pay system so bands could MAKE money. If that stops happening, I'll stop doing this. |
| _________________________________________ [Dec 17,2004 1:43pm - SacreligionNlI ""] he's right you know |
| __________________________________ [Dec 17,2004 2:54pm - succubus ""] tobin said:i do know this site and i do know there are a lot of local bands on it. the problem is that if a new band shows up that's not part of the clique, they get all but blacklisted. remember, not every band you've never heard of is some nu-metal garbage that doesn't deserve a chance. for all you know, the coolest band you'll ever hear is playing in a basement somewhere, and sadly enough probably won't be able to get anyone out to see them play when they start doing shows. yer preaching to the choir if you are saying this to me... i have been saying there is way to much shit talking on here for a while and it's gotten worse |
| __________________________________________ [Dec 17,2004 3:23pm - BestialOnslaught ""] ShadowSD said:No, I just meant that people who had already planned their Saturday night around going to Worcester didn't have to cancel their whole night. And didn't Sacreligion just offer to sell tickets for $5 a few posts ago? I was just fucking around... But really, there may be a few Worc. people here, but I really don't see everyone else still sticking with their Worcester plans. |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 17,2004 3:43pm - KeithMutiny ""] I dont talk shit... i know for a fact everyone fucking sucks.... hehehe, just KIDDIN |
| _________________________________________ [Dec 18,2004 2:49am - SacreligionNLI ""] I just wish we had the opportunity to show everyone on here what we're really about...i have so much "faith" in this band it's ridiculous |
| ____________________________________________ [Dec 18,2004 2:52am - Todd(bombshelter) ""] SacreligionNLI said:I just wish we had the opportunity to show everyone on here what we're really about...i have so much "faith" in this band it's ridiculous :doublehorns: I'm a fan and I don't impress easily ,as most people know ,my 2 favorite words are "you suck!" |
| _______________________________________ [Dec 18,2004 10:49am - suckreligion ""] cannot wait to play tonight. metalllllllllllllllllll. |
| _______________________________ [Dec 11,2006 12:53pm - Yeti ""] suckreligion? i dont remember that. nice. |
| ________________________________________ [Dec 11,2006 2:07pm - Granny_Monster ""] Ugh, I remember this... what a bummer |