Gerry,

You make some interesting points.

At KFFC we charge £5....... I believe that charging more would put people off coming. We are in the middle of nowhere...... when we started in the village pub (before it closed down) we did the first few nights with no door charge (and the Landlord picked up the artists fees). We had 65 in for the first night. We then slowly increased the price....and numbers went down. Remember, this IS Yorkshire (tee hee!)

The turnout since we moved to the Village Hall has taken another knock. We do have good atttendances for the weekends we run. Money from the weekwnds is used to subsidise any poorly attended club nights. We are averaging only about 30 (over the 4 nights we've run) since we moved to the village hall.

None of this is driven by wanting entertainment on the cheap.....it's about finding a price (and business model) that the market will stand. If we could make more money, I would gladly pay the acts more.

Fot the next weekend we are running in February we will run the bar and provide the food ourselves (previously outsourced) to maximise profits....allowing us to keep going.

Gerry, I think you also tend to book bigger names than we do.... making it easier to charge more, we book a real mix but not usually any of the megastars that grace your stage...... I'm tempted to try one though and see what difference it makes to attendance. BTW this is purely an observation, noy any kind of criticism, I think you have an excellent model!

Cheers

Paul