Re fees and door prices... Yes I hate to see my and my other performing friends' abilities pre-judged by someone's idea of a fair door price, but I do understand why it's done and I guess it's only reasonable.

But the question you ask the Captain misses a point.

The higher-feed artists will bring in more people, thus earning his higher fee, while the lower-feed artist pulls in fewer, so expects to get less, that's reasonable. And if they're all on a percentage against a low guarantee - which is fine IF the club is doing everything right, then that's fair too. The maths only works your way if you have a completely full room for both acts, which would be unlikely.

No-one would surely suggest that all artists should get the same fee - execept the few marxist moles left in the MU (we know who you are!)