Subject: RE: Does musician travel drive up cost?
From: Maryrrf - PM
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 11:34 AM

< I think if a musician insisted upon reviewing a venues' books before being hired he wouldn't get many gigs.... >

Quite right Mary. I can't think why the guest performer would want to see them. But even if he had I wouldn't have done so. I just don't see any organiser would be willing to do so.

In my case I really didn't have any books in the sense of proper business acceptable accounts.

I just kept a tally of how much money I had in the pot for spending on the evenings I planned to run.

I didn't make any money. I had not planned to. I spent what we made on giving the audiences what I thought they wanted. Of course I made mistakes. I spent too much for acts that didn't warrant it and on other occasions I got great turnouts for very reasonable expenditure.
part of a learning process.

Swings and roundabouts.....that's how it worked.

regards

MikeL2