Dutty Moonshine Band post

[Chrisp1986]

Don't think they will be there this year. What does everyone think to the honesty? 

[stuie]

I’ve replied to him as I think it’s a bit snide. Everyone knows glasto runs like this and people work for tickets all over the place. Thing is, they’ve done it multiple years on these terms and now changed their mind. Either do it for what they offer or don’t. Don’t do it and cry about it after. 

My reply:

you’ll probably delete this but as I’ve pointed out before you also got signed when you were spotted at Glasto. It’s not like other music festivals, it’s almost like a music conference with labels searching for talent… crawling with A&R everywhere. That’s before you even consider all the new fans you’ll collect along the way, like us.. who have since come to your tour and bought your vinyl.  

It’s also a charity focused event - I give my time to it for free (in exchange for a 1 week ticket to the farm of course) and it raises millions for charity. 

You done it more than once under those conditions and now you’re signed you’ve got a problem with it?

 

 

Edited March 7, 2024 by stuie

[stuie]

Discussion closed!!

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

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[Neil]

each stage get allocated a fixed number of tickets, which have to cover everything that stage wants to do, requests for extras is not looked on kindly, the leftfield stage manager was sacked after he asked for extra tickets so he could book a particular band, then booked the band without having tickets for them, - hoping that would pressure Glastonbury to give him the extra tickets

[CharlotteB]

10 hours ago, stuie said:

I’ve replied to him as I think it’s a bit snide. Everyone knows glasto runs like this and people work for tickets all over the place. Thing is, they’ve done it multiple years on these terms and now changed their mind. Either do it for what they offer or don’t. Don’t do it and cry about it after. 

My reply:

you’ll probably delete this but as I’ve pointed out before you also got signed when you were spotted at Glasto. It’s not like other music festivals, it’s almost like a music conference with labels searching for talent… crawling with A&R everywhere. That’s before you even consider all the new fans you’ll collect along the way, like us.. who have since come to your tour and bought your vinyl.  

It’s also a charity focused event - I give my time to it for free (in exchange for a 1 week ticket to the farm of course) and it raises millions for charity. 

You done it more than once under those conditions and now you’re signed you’ve got a problem with it?

 

 

Well said 👍🏻

[gigpusher]

Yes it's sad that it is so difficult for Glastonbury to pay more to artists but it is because they give proceeds to charity. I wish some of the bigger artists would play for less money to enable smaller artists to get a bit more of the pie but that's an industry wide issue.

There are plenty of bands that have been discovered at Glastonbury that make a living touring throughout the UK all year off the back of fans made at the festival.

[shuttlep]

we Altern8 if he was playing one year , he said he had been offered a spot, but it wasn't paid, and it was just after lock down so he said he had paying gigs that weekend that he must do. 

 

he wasn't annoyed by it , it was matter of fact. he wanted to do Glastonbury as he does most years, but couldn't afford it that year.

[-TLR-]

not really sure what he (?) was hoping to achieve with this?

was he expecting a pat on the back and a collective "there there, poor dear, its ok, have some more tickets and a nice little cuddle while we're at it".

 

anyways, they can f**k right off.

[mouserat]

While I'd agree that nobody should ever be expected to work for little-no pay on the promise of "exposure", I lose the thread of his post a bit. 

He starts by saying that you often need to have got a ticket already in order to be able to play at Glastonbury but then says they had to take two shows in order to get enough tickets for everyone. If they have been given tickets, then I'd argue free admission to the rest of the festival surely counts as some of the payment on top of whatever cash amount they received?

Would he be happier if they were paid more but escorted on and off site so that they were just their for their alotted performance? Imagine the reason some of the band are a bit miffed not to be going back is because it's also ruined an easy, guaranteed way of getting a festival ticket.

[tomf3]

They're also at a point in terms of popularity where they're playing on smaller stages, who probably struggle to justify giving out 13 tickets for a 1 hour slot at 4am. I think it would be different if they were having to scrape together tickets to play on, say, the Other Stage (and essentially marketing the event via BBC highlights). The whole thing screams of him/them thinking they're a lot bigger than they are, and makes it embarrassing in future if they do want to play but have taken this stance. Play or don't play, but I don't think them not being there is going to significantly impact anyone's weekend (aside from their own). 

[gigpusher]

I've made the point before but fully trained doctors work at the festival for the price of a ticket.

It's absolutely fair enough to decide you don't want to do that but at a festival as sought after as Glastonbury the ticket cost is part of the payment and given that the tickets are quite expensive I'd imagine 6 tickets per set puts up the amount they are paid considerably.