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Two years ago it was a different story and was getting offers of £100 for a 5 piece band. With the premise of a live video being done for the band. I said I didn't want a shitty lit video with average sound quality as a demo video? Take it or leave it he said .... can you guess the answer I gave him yet ?
£750 for the original gig I mentioned seems good going then!
A fuction often means going earlier to set up, playing later, playing songs the person hiring you wants etc etc If your amp does in a pub and you need a break to sort it's annoying but not the end of the world - slightly different st someone's wedding.
The extra is for the extra hassle but also there is an element of paying more for a more professional act.
For charity gigs - I've heard people suggest asking for full payment, which members will then donate back to the cause. To weed out the fake charities. Anyone done this?
Also pub bands will tend to stay within their area, within reason - maybe you'll travel 20 miles or something across town - whereas long-distance travel is a given for function bands. We played in Woolacombe a couple of weeks back, nearly an 8 hour round trip. That is 8 hours x 3 men, plus fuel, before you even include the time loading in, setting up, playing and, most importantly, the time and effort we have to concentrate on utterly destroying the buffet and wedding cake.
On the plus side, we have had many very nice buffets and even a good few occasions where we have had the exact same sit-down meal as the guests. Now THAT is above and beyond...but never refused.
We get £250-£300 for a pub usually. There's the odd one that pays a bit more. We do 1x45 and 1x75 usually in a pub - we don't get out much so sometimes we'll do more than we should. We did a mini festival last year for "exposure" and got offered a slot on another festival where the fee was 2x free tickets per band member to the festival!
Many a good meal at Languish house and Tithe Barn and other upper class Hampshire venues
Best score though was Wickam vineyard ... they said help yourselves to leftovers and we came away with 4 cases of wine
A polypin of Harveys Best, two cases of Laurent Perrier and 3 cases of rather tasty red.
I do however attend open Jam sessions with other musicians on a regular basis in ad hoc venues. We are not 'working' we are socialising and having fun, the collections and donations are always to the local cancer charity because we have lost too many of our number to the disease in the last few years.
Other than that I consider myself a professional musician and I wouldn't ask a mechanic to change a gearbox for charity so why would I work for nothing ?