It's a good job I do this for fun and not money!

[crez5150]

[quote name='david_l_perry' post='484688' date='May 10 2009, 10:42 PM']And at this point I feel you are perhaps in a [i]slightly [/i]different sort of venue......

Out of interest (and this is genuine interest) what sort of venuess/gigs are you taking this sort of money from ?

Dave[/quote]

No your right..... not in a pub or club..... the band I play in only do Weddings and corporate gigs... you'd never get this sorta money from a venue.... I think the most I ever earned from a venue was about £500 for the whole band....

Interesting conversation I was having the the drummer from the band... he's fully pro... he was telling me how much the going rate for some tour work was.... I mean big tours such as Kylie... It's not much for the muso's... I'm happy with the weddings thankyou very much!!

[Adrenochrome]

[quote name='Jamesemt' post='485978' date='May 12 2009, 02:45 PM']I find some of this a bit odd - we played our first proper gig on Saturday night, two 45 minute sets and got paid £200...and thought we should have pushed for a bit more?[/quote]

£200 is quite decent in current times in Yorkshire for a pub, MANY are paying less. If it was a club or function you should expect more depending on the circumstances and size of venue.

Our biggest club gigs pay 5 times as much as our smallest pub gigs (which we possibly make a small loss on, but do for fun)

[teej]

We're 3 professional musicians in Red Jackson and we do a bit of everything really. Aim for £600 for the trio, and no that's not from pubs/bars. It could be in a hotel, or a marquee, or even someone's living room or back garden. We do weddings, parties, corporate and festival work, but also accept less for little country boozers, smart restaurants, arts centres. It's all the same material, but often handled differently - no compromises, we just play our mix of traditional blues styles from 20s-40s with a little rockabilly thrown in. We travel very light, small pa (yamaha stagepas-500), guitar combo, upright bass goes into the pa and the kit is just kick and snare. The whole set-up and 3 guys fits in a sierra - just!

We also busk regularly all year round (which is how we get nearly all of our gigs, from people picking up our business card in the street). We'll make more on a day busking than in 4/5 pub gigs. BUT - we're good at it, over 15 years of experience.

I enjoy playing in bars, but I don't go out of my way to get that work, and don't always accept it when it comes calling. A lot depends on what the bar is like and how it fits in with our private clients and/or our diehard blues fans. And, of course, no one gets married on a Tuesday

[Kongo]

[quote name='molan' post='482645' date='May 8 2009, 02:51 AM']Played a fun gig this evening for which we were paid the princely sum of £250.

This was shared between 8 of us (7 in the band plus the ever attentive sound man) and we held some back towards the rehearsal kitty.

I bought a, small, round for a couple of the band plus an after gig beer for myself & worked out I had the net figure of about a fiver for the night.

I have to say that this doesn't really bother me a bit, it really was a fun evening and I can't imagine a better way to spend a dull Thursday than with some really good friends playing music for an appreciative audience [/quote]

That's great man.
I hope you continue with this. Some wedding bands get paid silly money!
I saw a decent one called the "Funtime Frankies"...LOL!!!

Get to play Elvis tunes and what-not plus all the wedding cake and booze you could want...Ah ok not so glam but still, must be fun for those who can do it.

[OldGit]

[quote name='Kongo' post='486546' date='May 13 2009, 01:07 AM']Get to play Elvis tunes and what-not plus [b][color="#8B0000"]all the wedding cake and booze you could want[/color][/b]...Ah ok not so glam but still, must be fun for those who can do it.[/quote]

Er hardly
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5436&st=0&p=56924&#entry56924"]Thread about what it's really like playing weddings and why wedding bands get paid so much more than pub bands paying the same material[/url]

[teej]

[quote name='OldGit' post='486609' date='May 13 2009, 08:38 AM']Er hardly
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5436&st=0&p=56924&#entry56924"]Thread about what it's really like playing weddings and why wedding bands get paid so much more than pub bands paying the same material[/url][/quote]

+1 OG

We are able to charge more precisely because we [i]don't[/i] approach the gig in that way.

[OldGit]

[quote name='teej' post='486665' date='May 13 2009, 09:51 AM']+1 OG

We are able to charge more precisely because we [i]don't[/i] approach the gig in that way.[/quote]


Sure, but you are not a run of the mill interchangeable wedding band playing the same ol' wedding setlist.
Your's is a rather different specialism

[teej]

[quote name='OldGit' post='486669' date='May 13 2009, 09:55 AM']Sure, but you are not a run of the mill interchangeable wedding band playing the same ol' wedding setlist.
Your's is a rather different specialism[/quote]

True enough, but I think the point still stands: professionalism is more about attitude to the job than playing ability.

[OldGit]

[quote name='teej' post='486774' date='May 13 2009, 11:41 AM']True enough, but I think the point still stands: professionalism is more about attitude to the job than playing ability.[/quote]

Oh yes!

[allighatt0r]

We get on average between 200 and 250 pounds for a gig, and if our gig booker really uses his car salesman techniques he can organise us a free bar too! The only thing is, when i wake up in the morning with the £40 in my pocket from the night before, it always end up slipping through my fingers.

Lately we're starting to work at getting into the forces gigs (we did one a couple of weeks back for £300 plus free bar plus fish and chips dinner) and apparently they fork out a grand for big does like the summer balls and Christmas does... Which would be pretty good for a pub covers band!