whoops - slipped a buuton there - Next week we book the Battlefield Band. 4 performers have to come all the way from Scotland for £25 each. Doesn't seem right to me.

OK the above examples may be a bit exteme but, as an artist, Dick, tell me how I can charge the same door fee for artists who charge diferent prices when I know the most I can get in our room is 40 people. As it happens we do charge the same on the door every Monday apart from the free or very cheap singers nights. It does sort of pan out becaue we know that the better the artist the bigger than pull and the more people turm up. Apart from when we got 6 people in to see Johnny Silvo :-( But that is the contrary folk audience for you!

It is not a rhetorical question btw - I really DO want to know how other people address this issue!

Cheers

Dave