Jonesthebass

I've worked for agents that purposefully don't put hot girls up front as it intimidates and upstages brides!!! Also worked with guys that have green eyed wives who would get funny about a hot 20 something in the band. Me.... No.1 everytime. If she sings well. Has a great stage presence then she's in. The 20 something can go and find a pub band to learn her craft. Functions and weddings pay better cos you're supposed to be polished and professional....

We have a well known venue that will not pay more than £200 because 'youre just a covers band!' Bearing in mind we'll fill the place. Yet they booked one of the guys from the scorpions a few years back paid him many hundreds, charged £13 for tickets and sold 9! Incidentally he spent most of his set playing Hendrix numbers which in my book constitutes a covers band set?!? 2x45 with us no less than £280. There are a lot of venues that will pay £300. Parties are up to you what you charge but be consistent. Weddings are no less than a grand. We used to think we weren't greedy and were happy with £150 each making our fee £600 and regularly didn't get the gig. We now quote between £1200-1500 aiming to settle above the £1000 mark and get more work. It's the old if you don't charge much you can't be very good. We have bands on our circuit who are playing the 250-300 venues and are 10 piece. I admire those guys to an extent because they really do it for the love.

Always avoided lady is a tramp in the jazz set and young hearts and I will survive always seemed weird to me....

Got heckled last night.... Not unusual, we often state we'll take requests. The request last night was the normal moronic play something good and when the guitarist asked him to define good the guy named some obscure killers track and proceeded to finish the sentence with you cnuts. Now that is a first. I've not been called that on stage before. We obliged the gent by launching into a 20min set of disco tracks.