Is this Money Money Money or is it Money For Nothing?

[Happy Jack]

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/12/22/money-money-money-abba-spat-goes-to-disputes-tribunal/?fbclid=IwAR2DyZEOtxKjrLv9wDyR0_SAjYhm8P2k4z_-FdPQVtwMzxrGmJ3XzMpcYLY

[Happy Jack]

Mind you, given the age range of the guests perhaps it should be

 

Gimme Gimme Gimme A Nan After Midnight.

 

[Happy Jack]

Where's the loo? Couldn't hold on if I wanted to.

 

[nilorius]

Money, money, money must be funny in a reach man's world !!!

[gjones]

Oooops!

 

Reminds me of a gig my band did where the night before the gig (which was a Xmas party for checkout ladies from Asda and Tesco) our female singer advised us she had flu and couldn't perform.

 

The guitarist said he could do the singing himself, so me and the drummer said we were ok to do the gig, with him as the frontman.

 

Unfortunately the only songs he knew were Clash and Iggy pop stuff, along with some Johnny Cash numbers done in a punk like style.

 

It did not go down well with the checkout ladies, and they asked for their money back from the agency that had booked us.

 

The guitarist managed to plead our case with the agency (he said if we'd have cancelled they wouldn't have had time to book another band - so we'd done them a favour) and we got our money.

[MacDaddy]

$3,000.00 for a 2 hour set?

Wonder what that is after tax...

[Happy Jack]

13 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

$3,000.00 for a 2 hour set?

Wonder what that is after tax...

 

A lot less than you think ... NZ$ is worth 52p.

 

[Guest]

53 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

$3,000.00 for a 2 hour set?

Wonder what that is after tax...

We typically charge private gigs £2000 for 2 x one hour sets, dependent kn the nature of the gig. Seems if we chuck in some ABBA we could maybe charge a bit more, eh ?

[Happy Jack]

9 minutes ago, Bassfinger said:

We typically charge private gigs £2000 for 2 x one hour sets

 

£2k for two sets?

 

Huh. Kids today, eh, they don't know they're Bjorn.

 

 

[Guest]

Yep, we've got in with the horsey set and they are out biggest customers. They absolutely sheet money, and are happy to pay - last gig I TWOC'd Mrs D's polestar and it was the cheapest car in the car park by about 90 grand, surrounded as it was by Overfinch Range Rooney's, Aston DBX's and Bentaygas. 

 

Luckily, as yet none of them have asked us to do any ABBA...

[yorks5stringer]

Helpfully the original news article shows us what Abba looked like in 1975 ( in case no one remembers was she the blond or red-headed one)?

Edited December 22, 2022 by yorks5stringer

[itu]

These things Björn again!

[Downunderwonder]

4 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

$3,000.00 for a 2 hour set?

Wonder what that is after tax...

Depends on what tax bracket you fall in with your last $ earned. Struggling musician would be 17.5% taxed. Lawyer weekend warrior 39% if he's a really good lawyer. 30 or 33% for most working people.

[Franticsmurf]

We played a venue and afterwards, as we were being paid, the entertainment sec told us about the band that had payed a couple of weeks before. "All they did were ABBA songs," he said. "The members hated it and we had to stop them halfway through the night." 

 

We were trying to leave but politely showed interest. "What were they called?"

 

"Abbamania". 😂

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Sounds like the woman who booked the band really wanted a Juke Box rather than a band.