Nooooooo!!!!!!!! I'm say exactly the opposite. I'm saying the people who want to charge £1,200 for a five piece nobody has heard of are the materialistic ones. I'm saying that performers mostly are performing because they love doing it and that's great, and if the most the market can bear is £400 for said gig not £1,200 then they're mostly prepared to do it, which is their choice. And if they're not prepared to do it for that then that's also their choice, but probably means not many will afford to book them.

And if that is the most the market can bear and said performer also has another career as well which allows them to have a mortgage and all those other things people like to have then what is wrong with that? Does that make that performer (or me for talking about it?) more materialistic for having more than one means of earning their living? Or for not necessarily treating music & performing as the thing they rely on to pay the bills?