Most people have to pay for their hobbies, though. If you break even and enjoy it, then you're doing well.
I'm not knocking it, just seems a lot of bloody effort. The logistics of just getting it all together would piss me off. I'm not even sure the gig money would pay for the kit they have, unless gigging a lot of weekends. My mate gigs but he's professional and teaches music as well, so his costs are absorbed into his lessons.
I doubt that many people do it for the money. If you're looking at it from a purely financial position, then I'm sure you're right.
We charge between £800-£1000 for a gig and don’t make any money personally out of it. We pay our soundman and singer £100 each and the rest goes in the pot for rent on the studio, fuel expenses to and from gigs and to help maintain the equipment, buy new mics and cables etc.
She is, but she came in on board after the band were formed and we took the collective decision to pay her. For the rest of us it’s just a hobby.
I think it takes balls for him to get up there, I'll give him that, so he must enjoy it. He looked liked he was flapping around a bit at times, but i'm sure he is better than first impressions give, most those punters wouldn't even know if he was having a bad evening playing, so he needs to relax more, quoting Beethoven, playing a wrong note is insignificant, to play without passion is inexcusable. I know nothing about drums but it looked like the drummer was holding it all together and the singer is just attempting stuff not suited to his voice, jeez i've heard better karoke, and the band is tone-deaf if they think he is going to get better. They need to decide on what works best and stick with it, keep the other stuff for playing around with.
The issue you need to address with him, is that he’s absolutely ****e mate. You need to sack him off.
It just wouldn’t work for us at £300. By the time we’ve paid the singer and soundman and taken out expenses, we’d be out of pocket. That said, we have played gigs for free / beer etc when it’s been for mates or parties / festivals that we want to be a part of. But we have to play some paid gigs just to balance the books.
The vocal was abysmal. I haven’t heard the guy sing anything else, so difficult to comment on his overall vocal ability, but his Ozzy impersonation leaves much to be desired. Hiag, mate. You need to drive that number. You can’t pussy foot around with a song like Paranoid - It’s the original hard rock song, and Iommi’s guitar drives it with that riff. You need to do the same, there should be a hard, menacing sound to it. But if that’s the best the vocalist can do, maybe you should drop it from the set?
Do you have a hobby that you love? Do you get paid every time you indulge in it? By the way, our average fee is around £450. Most gigs are local, so petrol is a small cost. The setting up and breaking down is all part of the fun with the boys. Playing live in front of an audience is always a rush for me. If it ever stops being fun, I'll go back to being a bedroom guitarist, like the hundreds of thousands out there.
Mixture of funk, latin, soul, afrobeat. Covers and original material. We’re an 8 piece with two sax players, keys, guitar, drums, bass, conga/timbale, vox
