Happy Jack Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/12/22/money-money-money-abba-spat-goes-to-disputes-tribunal/?fbclid=IwAR2DyZEOtxKjrLv9wDyR0_SAjYhm8P2k4z_-FdPQVtwMzxrGmJ3XzMpcYLY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 Mind you, given the age range of the guests perhaps it should be Gimme Gimme Gimme A Nan After Midnight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 Where's the loo? Couldn't hold on if I wanted to. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilorius Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Money, money, money must be funny in a reach man's world !!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Oooops! Reminds me of a gig my band did where the night before the gig (which was a Xmas party for checkout ladies from Asda and Tesco) our female singer advised us she had flu and couldn't perform. The guitarist said he could do the singing himself, so me and the drummer said we were ok to do the gig, with him as the frontman. Unfortunately the only songs he knew were Clash and Iggy pop stuff, along with some Johnny Cash numbers done in a punk like style. It did not go down well with the checkout ladies, and they asked for their money back from the agency that had booked us. The guitarist managed to plead our case with the agency (he said if we'd have cancelled they wouldn't have had time to book another band - so we'd done them a favour) and we got our money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 $3,000.00 for a 2 hour set? Wonder what that is after tax... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 13 minutes ago, MacDaddy said: $3,000.00 for a 2 hour set? Wonder what that is after tax... A lot less than you think ... NZ$ is worth 52p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassfinger Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 53 minutes ago, MacDaddy said: $3,000.00 for a 2 hour set? Wonder what that is after tax... We typically charge private gigs £2000 for 2 x one hour sets, dependent kn the nature of the gig. Seems if we chuck in some ABBA we could maybe charge a bit more, eh ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 9 minutes ago, Bassfinger said: We typically charge private gigs £2000 for 2 x one hour sets £2k for two sets? Huh. Kids today, eh, they don't know they're Bjorn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassfinger Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Yep, we've got in with the horsey set and they are out biggest customers. They absolutely sheet money, and are happy to pay - last gig I TWOC'd Mrs D's polestar and it was the cheapest car in the car park by about 90 grand, surrounded as it was by Overfinch Range Rooney's, Aston DBX's and Bentaygas. Luckily, as yet none of them have asked us to do any ABBA... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) Helpfully the original news article shows us what Abba looked like in 1975 ( in case no one remembers was she the blond or red-headed one)? Edited December 22, 2022 by yorks5stringer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itu Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 These things Björn again! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunderwonder Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 4 hours ago, MacDaddy said: $3,000.00 for a 2 hour set? Wonder what that is after tax... Depends on what tax bracket you fall in with your last $ earned. Struggling musician would be 17.5% taxed. Lawyer weekend warrior 39% if he's a really good lawyer. 30 or 33% for most working people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franticsmurf Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 We played a venue and afterwards, as we were being paid, the entertainment sec told us about the band that had payed a couple of weeks before. "All they did were ABBA songs," he said. "The members hated it and we had to stop them halfway through the night." We were trying to leave but politely showed interest. "What were they called?" "Abbamania". 😂 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Sounds like the woman who booked the band really wanted a Juke Box rather than a band. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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