The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #106217   Message #2192655
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
13-Nov-07 - 09:19 AM
Thread Name: Stealing gigs from the pro's
Subject: RE: Stealing gigs from the pro's
It's an entirely reasonable viewpoint, AFPR. But at least some organisers are broad-minded enough to take it on board. I can remember one or two of them (who may well be reading this thread) saying to me that they were going to book So-&-So even though they personally didn't care much for what that artist did. But, they said, our club members do/would like them.

The organisers I am thinking of told me that their booking policies were not so much a matter of their own personal taste as what would go down in their clubs. Of course this carries a financial consideration, because "good for the club" has to also mean either profit or (more realistically) not too great a financial drain. But maybe these enlightened leaders are in the minority - my recollections are from a long time ago when everything in the scene was much healthier. And less expensive (thinking particularly of fuel).

It would be interesting to have further input from them -