Quoting David from 15:01, 4th Aug 2006
they should just get a good covers band instead of some band only 3 people in the uni have heard of
Quoting cain from 15:39, 4th Aug 2006Quoting David from 15:01, 4th Aug 2006
they should just get a good covers band instead of some band only 3 people in the uni have heard of
Nouvelle Vague are playing Fruitstock, and they are brilliant.
Everybody will love them.
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Quoting Phil Reid from 09:11, 4th Aug 2006
bands would normally be looking for around about 5000 (I think I paid that for Space, toploader were 7 I think, can't remember exactly but i think mull were cheaper). the VAT would be 17.5% (The VAT charities can reclaim is vat on sales, not on purchases i believe (I know i should know this as an auditor, but i do public sector at the moment, not charities, if you really care you can look it up on the acca website).
this gives it 6 grand.
sound hire will be about £1000+ (the technical rider for professional bands is beyond anything a medium size venue like the union could hope to have, and as we want them to play rather than them wanting to come to st andrews for exposure we have to meet their terms. The mojo safety barrier hire costs around about 500 i recall. catering and refreshment riders would come to about £500 (remember their are the bands, the techs and the management. Support acts could cost up to another 500, you would normally put on a contigency of around about 10% for extras, such as security last minute diva esque demands, tickets etc.
your £5000 quite big a couple of years ago or might be big this year band is then costing you somewhere near £10 000. meaning to break even you would look to charge at least 10. you'd normally budget for about 700 people, which would mean break even then moves to about 14-15 pounds.
you then also have to consider from a financial point of view you could have put on a 'vote for your own music because apparently st andrews djs are incapable of building a set' bop (oh union how you've gone backwards) and made 1-2 000 pounds, so really you should look to make that profit, and, even then ignoring that your letting al this student money which could have been spent in the union at a far higher net profit margin slide out of the town, you would need to charge £16-17 per ticket, and frankly whilst it would be a bargain in here in brighton, you won't find 700 in st andrews is going to pay that for someone like the coral or the automatic during freshers week when there's so much else on. the only sensible thing i'm aware of bonnie ever having done was having coolio a few weeks after when people still had money and things had cooled down a little.
Erik pryde or a lot of discos then.
Quoting rennie from 08:56, 15th Aug 2006
Sound hire at £1000? Again, seems about double what is normally paid for a venue the size of venue 1, which already has a lot of equipment in place.
Crash barriers, I assume you're right.can cost more if you get the company to set it up and take down for you.£500 for catering and refreshment - where are you shopping - Harrods? £200 would be perfectly suffice for catering for up to 8 people I would say.
Quoting Big X from 11:49, 24th Aug 2006
yeah so back to the original question: its 3 weeks to go now....surely someone knows thats going on??
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