Sorry Captain but in the real world (as opposed to the one we may like to see) you can get more people to pay more money to see Vin Garbutt than to see (say) Pete Coe. That may change but in the here and now it's a fact and Vin's rate is higher and so is the door fee. The fact that I'd rather see Pete is irrelevant to the economics of keeping a club afloat.

I also don't see why (as implied) an organiser should use their own earned money to keep a club afloat. The folk business is a "business" if you don't like it get out of the kitchen but you can't change the reality by wishing it were different.

Steve