It's "for charity"

[Dan Dare]

1 hour ago, fretmeister said:

on a few occasions I was asked a few massive companies for free shows and clearly those companies were just doing it for the advertising for them and not the charity. That included Tesco and Pizza Hut. Tesco tried to change my mind by offering me a sandwich Meal Deal and some free coffee.

 

Tell me about it. Those donation boxes in Tesco and others, where you are asked to deposit food you've paid for to be given to charity, always annoy me.

 

So Tesco et al get paid full price, including their mark-up, for stuff, which they then pass on to local charities. Do they offer you stuff at cost if you put it in the charity box? Do they say "Thank you to our generous customers" (or even name-check them) when passing on stuff they've sold at full price/a profit? Er, no. So they get extra sales, plus a pat on the back and publicity for their "generosity". Makes you sick.

[martthebass]

3 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

I can think of a couple of occasions where that has definitely been the case. On one, we played well, on a decently equipped stage, but the folk sitting around the tables were there for the 'turning to stone' little fellow for whom the event was planned. They had no interest in 'whooping it up' at all. A 'lead ballon' event; they needn't have booked a band at all. 

Maybe we’ve been lucky Doug, but we aren’t a typical covers band.

[SteveXFR]

My band mates used to have a grunge covers band but played the interesting, great songs rather than the popular classics. It didn't go well,  everyone just wanted Smells Like Teen Spirit, Alive, Black Hole Sun and Man In The Box while they were playing Sweet Young Thing by Mudhoney and Greasebox by Tad and Love Buzz by Nirvana. 

This is why I won't do covers. I don't want to play the standard classics.

[Dad3353]

22 minutes ago, martthebass said:

Maybe we’ve been lucky Doug, but we aren’t a typical covers band.

 

Not so sure that we're 'typical', either, or even if that term means much in the French venues we've played. 

[SimonK]

Bizarre to come across this thread this evening as I am weighing up whether to accept a charity gig in February where they are charging £25/head to come in. When I provisionally said yes I wasn't expecting to be asked to pay £25 myself as the email I got this evening has just requested.... hopefully it was a misunderstanding and they had just added me to the list of their attendees and bulk sent...

[Piers_Williamson]

3 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

 

Tell me about it. Those donation boxes in Tesco and others, where you are asked to deposit food you've paid for to be given to charity, always annoy me.

 

So Tesco et al get paid full price, including their mark-up, for stuff, which they then pass on to local charities. Do they offer you stuff at cost if you put it in the charity box? Do they say "Thank you to our generous customers" (or even name-check them) when passing on stuff they've sold at full price/a profit? Er, no. So they get extra sales, plus a pat on the back and publicity for their "generosity". Makes you sick.

Not sticking up for Tesco, or any other particular supermarket, but there is a lot of near date food that gets donated by supermarkets to homeless shelters et al.  You could say that it would go to waste otherwise, but my experience is that much tastier food gets prepared in the shelters as a consequence.

[Misdee]

A few years ago I was in a Tesco supermarket in a fairly typical economically deprived town up north.  Near the entrance amongst the fresh produce they had baskets of free fruit for children to help themselves to.

 

Both parents and children were walking past this generous offer, despite looking exactly like the kind of socially disadvantaged stereotypes this gesture was obviously aimed at. I don't think they knew what fruit was, or if they did it definitely wasn't something they contemplate eating except as a flavour of Haribo.

[MacDaddy]

7 hours ago, neepheid said:

I think it's a free choice, and it's none of my business what any of you choose.  I don't really feel like sharing my personal opinion on this, because someone will likely come along to tell me how wrong I am, as is always the case in threads like this.

 

No, I disagree and think you are wrong about that...

[Dad3353]

3 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

No, I disagree and think you are wrong about that...

 

Not at all; he's right. It's you that's got it wrong. Best offer an apology. 

 

...

 

 

[Sean]

44 minutes ago, Piers_Williamson said:

Not sticking up for Tesco, or any other particular supermarket, but there is a lot of near date food that gets donated by supermarkets to homeless shelters et al.  You could say that it would go to waste otherwise, but my experience is that much tastier food gets prepared in the shelters as a consequence.

Tesco?

Is that the place that used to secretly put horsemeat in its products and not tell the customers? 

 

[Burns-bass]

39 minutes ago, Misdee said:

A few years ago I was in a Tesco supermarket in a fairly typical economically deprived town up north.  Near the entrance amongst the fresh produce they had baskets of free fruit for children to help themselves to.

 

Both parents and children were walking past this generous offer, despite looking exactly like the kind of socially disadvantaged stereotypes this gesture was obviously aimed at. I don't think they knew what fruit was, or if they did it definitely wasn't something they contemplate eating except as a flavour of Haribo.

This sort of post should end up on the dustbin. You should be ashamed of stuff like this.