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If you're not being paid then I don't think you should be putting yourself out of pocket. Ask the promoter if they can arrange it - they should already have PL insurance anyway that you'll be covered under.

These should be alright for a tenner - [url="http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/19517754/Sony-MDR-EX10-LPB-In-ear-Headphones-in-Fashion-Colours-Black/Product.html?searchstring=in+ear+headphones&searchtype=allproducts&searchsource=0&searchfilters=s%7bin+ear+headphones%7d%2b&cpage=6&ob=4&urlrefer=search"]http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronic...urlrefer=search[/url] I've never had a pair of sony headphone that sounded terrible.

When I was 15 my mates wanted to start a band and needed a bass player and I knew someone with a bass...

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1327296' date='Aug 4 2011, 04:21 PM'].....yet [/quote] ...too true.

1 head and 1 cab for 18 months, not even thought about changing

Used to get mine with Endsleigh when I was a student - pretty comprehensive insurance up to about £5k worth of stuff for about £40 a year IIRC. Amazingly, mines now covered on our contents insurance - specifically listed and didn't cost much extra - think we're with More Than, have to check.

[quote name='markstuk' post='1323889' date='Aug 2 2011, 09:47 AM']Does it get worse as the full moon approaches ? [/quote]

[quote name='Blademan_98' post='1321104' date='Jul 30 2011, 09:38 AM']I have to disagree on the car thing. I bought a car from a dealer. I paid cash (£3,500) and he put it through his books as £1000 less and we split the difference. All very dodgy but I did get a three year old car with low mileage for well under book value. It does sometimes work.[/quote] Ha, I didn't think this sort of thing still happened, what with the FSA tightly regulating dealerships at the moment. Fair play though - if you don't ask, you don't get...

Looking good mate. Very impressed.

Welcome to the internet...

Looks terrible with, looks great without.

Not bad when you consider that Maplin sell those jack plugs for £1.79 each - [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/side-entry-1-4-mono-jackplug-1249"]http://www.maplin.co.uk/side-entry-1-4-mono-jackplug-1249[/url]

So you're going with the Vespa then...?

Sell it all and buy a Vespa. You'll fit right in.

Unless you're trying to wake the dead, you won't need to take the 500 past the 4th volume notch...

"For investors only". Forgive my ignorance, but where the f*** is the investment opportunity in this?

[quote name='YouMa' post='1308096' date='Jul 18 2011, 05:04 PM']Im skint till next month.[/quote] Wait till next month?

IME, it's much easier to get a good fee from someone who isn't trying to make money out of you. We generally don't bother with pubs, and we've got to the point where we won't go out for any less than £100 a piece after expenses (4 piece) with weddings paying at least double based on location. We're getting about 1 well paid booking a month and that's just through word of mouth - we don't do any of our own promotion. It's an ideal workload for all of us and it also gives us plenty of time to play the originals gigs that we prefer to play. It's a great cash boost mid-month as well. Play the right set, and play it well, and word of mouth will keep you in gigs for as long as you want.

[quote name='dc2009' post='1300864' date='Jul 12 2011, 12:18 PM']Perhaps, though I play music for enjoyment, not for work, and whilst many guys play in covers bands to supplement their income, I'd argue it's a bonus to play for pay, but you should just be happy to be playing music to people who are enjoying it. Being in a covers band has the ease of the fact that if you're good, you should get decent turnouts - good and gig turnout are distinctly not related in the originals world. Surely a big reason a cover band will frequently get a good audience is because they're playing songs they haven't written, it's covers which are hopefully familiar to the audience, if anything I'd argue they deserve less for a gig on that basis![/quote] Yeah totally, I fully see the arguement for originals bands to get paid more. Sadly that's not what makes money on this scale/platform.

[quote name='dc2009' post='1300837' date='Jul 12 2011, 12:01 PM']I was wandering off topic, surprised that any bands are offered this kind of money! Not got a comment on the deal really, other than I'd be happy to take it.[/quote] I can see what you mean - as an originals band it'd be great and a lot more than I'd be expecting - we usually play for free!! As a good covers band it seems like a pretty raw deal - covers sets, whilst fun, do feel like work, and when you're putting on a good show and everyone in the place is loving it, you should be paid properly for it... IMO.

eBay is usually good for this sort of thing.

[quote name='dc2009' post='1300772' date='Jul 12 2011, 11:19 AM']This all seems reasonable and understandable. Never been a massive fan of most music most covers bands play if I'm honest (or at least the ones I've seen). Nothing bad about it, just too far before my time for me ever to have been a fan, and consequently only having a vague knowledge of the songs means I'm rarely interested. Perhaps cover bands in 20 years time will be playing Foo Fighters and Muse. That'll be good :-) (not massive fans of either but it's music I know).[/quote] Sounds like your problem is with the bands and not the deal? As has been said above, a decent band will get a good fee and won't need to consider a deal like this.