[matilda] Clarity over Gig space collective proposals

[gavin at cyber-rights.net]

Aw, dude. Are you sure? And Green Day just wrote to me to ask if I 
could put them on in the basement, too. I told them no already but 
they were like begging and stuff.

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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:58:22 -0700 cuthbert at riseup.net wrote:
>> "The proposal at the monday meeting was
>> that people wanting to do gigs should submit some kind
>> of accounts as to costs and where the money would be
>> going."
>
>On the form that is being produced for people to fill in if they 
>want to
>put events on there will be a part on that form for the event 
>organiser to
>tell us what the estimated overall cost of the event will be, how 
>many
>people they are expecting to turn up and the price for entry (if 
>there is
>any).  It was agreed that for the next few months people putting 
>on gigs
>would not fill in that part of the form.
>
>The reason that i think that the people organising events at 
>matilda
>should fill in that part of the form are:
>-by telling us the estimated overall cost of the event we can 
>guarantee
>that unsustainably expensive events that put matilda at a 
>financial risk
>will not be allowed to happen.
>-It is important for us to know the amount of people likely to 
>turn up for
>security reasons, so that we know how many people we are going to 
>need
>looking after the gate.
>-For me, knowing how much money the organiser wants to charge 
>people for
>getting into the event is a matter of accessibility, the higher 
>the charge
>the more likely someone who doesnt have very much money will be 
>excluded
>from the event.
>
>In my opinion when someone comes to a monday meeting to propose an 

>event
>like a gig or party if i dont know how much the event will cost, 
>the
>amount of people that are likely to turn up and how much the are 
>charging
>then i dont think that i will be able to make an informed decision 

>on
>whether i am happy that the event is suitable for matilda to host. 

> I
>personally think that matilda, because it is run by volunteers is 
>very
>different from the vast majority of music venues.  For example: I 
>would
>not be happy voluneering my time for nothing in order to put on a 
>greenday
>gig or any other big commercial band for that matter.
>
>from
>cuthbert
>
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