Good thread. As a bad musician who will never make any money out of music anyway I have no problem playing for nothing. Anyone paying to see me should demand their money back :-) As a festival organiser I resent the implication that we are exploiting anyone. We have paid people market rates, we have given people an agreed lower fee and we have had favours of free performances from all sorts of people. What we have never done is made any money. All the money from ticket sales have gone on advertising, paying for venues and artists fees. I know there are dozens if not hundreds of organisers in exactly the same position.

Cheers

DtG