Travis22
Senior Member
Hey everyone, had a situation I was hoping perhaps to get some feedback on. I'm not 100% sure I'm posting this in the correct area, so if I'm not I apologize ahead of time.
The situation I'm dealing with is kind of trivial. The promoter for a particular venue (whom we have been playing for ocassionly the past 2 years) has been refusing to give us anything other than an opening spot. Now, when we were fresh out of the gates, I totally understand that. He is out to make money, and put on a good show, and most times newbies can't pull off as good of a show as a band that's been gigging for a couple years or more, so I get that. But here we are almost 3 years in and put in a simple request (upon another offer to open) to have at least a number 2 spot. I believe we deserve it since the last 10 shows we have played (and headlined) the bar/club/venue has made bank, as well as the turnouts have been fantastic and we have made bank.
Promoter dude hit us up again last night after telling us we were too arrogant and cocky for us to be booked at his venues right now and asked us to come and play a 2nd spot tonight for $100. The set we are playing is only supose to last an hour, so 25 per person for an hours worth of playing isn't bad...and that's not including merch we may, or may not, sell. My bandmates all want to do this gig, so we have accepted, but I honestly don't feel like we should. He has slandered our name just because we have asked for a little bone to be tossed our way from time to time, and then turns around and runs to us to bail him out when a band cancels on him. My bandmates all say that he is giving us what we asked for, so we should do it and be happy.
The total kicker for me is that he has a band he books ALL the time. The singer I swear is his family or something, because their music and set has never changed in the 2 years they have been together, but they get all the hype and shows they want with this dude. We played a show a couple of weeks ago and Golden Boy shows up to "hear us." He had nothing but great things to say about us, and then wouldn't you know it, we are asked to play less than 2 weeks later at the same venue we are too cocky to play in. My morals tell me that I shouldn't do it...it's one local venue and if we don't play there so what? There's hundreds of other places around here to play and that want us, so losing out on this deal doesn't phase me one bit. However, like I said, my band sees it differently, so being a team player I am going to go and play the best I can, but I'm very unhappy about it.
Any words of advice on what you would do? What should we do after tonight?
The situation I'm dealing with is kind of trivial. The promoter for a particular venue (whom we have been playing for ocassionly the past 2 years) has been refusing to give us anything other than an opening spot. Now, when we were fresh out of the gates, I totally understand that. He is out to make money, and put on a good show, and most times newbies can't pull off as good of a show as a band that's been gigging for a couple years or more, so I get that. But here we are almost 3 years in and put in a simple request (upon another offer to open) to have at least a number 2 spot. I believe we deserve it since the last 10 shows we have played (and headlined) the bar/club/venue has made bank, as well as the turnouts have been fantastic and we have made bank.
Promoter dude hit us up again last night after telling us we were too arrogant and cocky for us to be booked at his venues right now and asked us to come and play a 2nd spot tonight for $100. The set we are playing is only supose to last an hour, so 25 per person for an hours worth of playing isn't bad...and that's not including merch we may, or may not, sell. My bandmates all want to do this gig, so we have accepted, but I honestly don't feel like we should. He has slandered our name just because we have asked for a little bone to be tossed our way from time to time, and then turns around and runs to us to bail him out when a band cancels on him. My bandmates all say that he is giving us what we asked for, so we should do it and be happy.
The total kicker for me is that he has a band he books ALL the time. The singer I swear is his family or something, because their music and set has never changed in the 2 years they have been together, but they get all the hype and shows they want with this dude. We played a show a couple of weeks ago and Golden Boy shows up to "hear us." He had nothing but great things to say about us, and then wouldn't you know it, we are asked to play less than 2 weeks later at the same venue we are too cocky to play in. My morals tell me that I shouldn't do it...it's one local venue and if we don't play there so what? There's hundreds of other places around here to play and that want us, so losing out on this deal doesn't phase me one bit. However, like I said, my band sees it differently, so being a team player I am going to go and play the best I can, but I'm very unhappy about it.
Any words of advice on what you would do? What should we do after tonight?
