For the love of money

Funny thing.. at the last gig, several of the crowd suggested that we must have been getting paid well for that night due to the fact that they enjoyed it so much. I see some logic in how that should be the case but of course this isn't how the music industry works. The way it works is that you'd probably get paid ten times more as a musician going out and finding suitable places to play 'Lady In Red' and 'Hi-Ho Silver Lining'. Subsource followers should rest easy knowing that we'd never sell out and you're not going to start hearing electro-frenetic versions of 'The Locomotion'. Performing original music live doesn't pay well... and my Mum keeps hassling me about it. Being in Subsource has some frills but a good health insurance and pension plan aren't included. Company car... kinda dubious...

So when an organiser says he'll let me know the day after a blisteringly good gig like at the Surrey Uni to tell us how much he can pay us and then you don't hear from him, you know that he must have not quite gotten round to checking his email over the past 2 weeks. So whilst we're waiting a bit longer, here's how much we ought to invoice him:

[30 (rehearsal cost) x 15 (number of rehearsals needed to get something like subsource working)] + [25 (approx. hours spent each writing a track) x 10 (tracks in the set) + 3 x 15 (number of our hours spent in the rehearsal) + 6 (hours spent travelling/soundchecking/waiting to go on/performing)] x 4 (how many of us in the band) x 5 (minimum wage for 'unskilled' labour) = £6470.

So Owen, if you're reading this, please make your cheque payable to 'Subsource' for £6470. But cash would be better.

Actually I found this photo below amongst the photos taken from the last gig. I could possibly concede that this photo is worth somewhere in the region of £6270. So that leaves a cash remainder plus 3 beers, an orange juice (no ice, no lemon) and a pack of nuts if there's any change. I know I've already posted photos of this crowd, but I love the looks on everyone's faces... just look at them. Anyhow, I'm not giving you trying to force feed you all some cheesy crap about how we do it for the love of music, I'm just demonstrating perks of the job, but you can't trade in perks for a working clutch.