Thursday, August 7, 2008
Hot Goss Nashville is No Guarantee: Follow-Up
Posted by Matt Sullivan on Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:11 PM
So Many Dynamos took down their blog post about their recent Exit/In show and replaced it with this:
NOTE: At the request of the venue, promoter, and our friend Molly who set up our show in Nashville, we've removed our post about the troubles we had at the Exit/In last Wednesday. The same miscommunication that caused us to not get paid extended into us not knowing the entire story behind the show before our post. We try to be open and honest on this blog to give an insight in the highs and lows of being in a functioning band and are sorry that our post rubbed some folks wrong. -management
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NASHVILLE, TN
We've never had good luck here, tonight was no exception. We headlined at the Exit/In, and I think there may have been 4 people watching us that we didn't know personally or were friends of those friends. It was overall not horrible during the show. Afterwards, a different story.
The word "guarantee" must not mean the same thing in Nashville as it does in the rest of the universe. Everywhere else, "guarantee" means that you are GUARANTEED a certain amount of money to play a show. There were not a lot of people at the show, in fact there were not enough to cover the show's expenses as far as sound guy, door guy, bartender, security (why this is necessary, i'll never understand). Naturally, all of these people got paid, and of course, we did not.
We had a $200 guarantee at this show. The club has a wall of names of famous, successful bands that have played there over the years. $200 is nothing to that club, and it's a small fortune to a band like us. I will just never understand why, at a show, the bands who bring the people to the show are the lowest priority on payment. Anyway, it's not completely hopeless, our friend Molly that set up the show is going to try to get the money out of them somehow, but it's just such such bad form for a "legitimate" club and it's such a small amount of money that we can't take legal action or really do ANYTHING about it. It's almost lawless in this circumstance, unless we want to go Judge Judy on their ass.
NOTE: Exit/In is the same club that David Cross famously fought with on his "Let America Laugh" DVD. I guess we're not the first people to have issues.
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