Wow, thanks for the info everyone!
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Yeah there's plenty of work if you're happy to play pub standards (60s,70s,80s pop and rock). Sounds like you're looking at Berkshire. Slough, Reading, Maidenhead etc all have lots of pubs that have live music. Slightly further afield there's Luton, St. Albans, West London, Woking, Guildford etc all within an hours drive and busy!
There'll be as much work as you want. If you want to work with two or three bands and you're happy to travel then you can work two or three nights a week. Pubs pay on average £200-£300 in the South East.
Wedding bands sound great and pay well but hard to get off the ground in every respect.
Best of luck
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Pub standards are exactly what I'm looking to do, so that sounds great. Thanks for the info.
[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1426584002' post='2719443']
Quite... this is why people move to Aus from the UK not the other way round...
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Haha. Good point! From what I've seen so far, rent in Sydney seems quite comparable to London. Both are reasonable expensive places to live.