🚀 go-pugleaf

Garry Ellard <gde@dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Is there anyone in the Edinburgh area who fancies a support gig on Friday the
> 10th January at The Subway,(Cowgate)? Our original support band fell through
> on us last night and we've ran out of folk we know to ask.

I can understand why.  My son has played two gigs there, in each case
helping out bands he doesn't normally work with.  The first was
'headlining', and when they came to collect the share of the gate money
they had agreed to play for, were told that the support band had already
walked off with all of it.  On the second occasion, the deal was even
worse -- the club was to take the first n covers, and the balance was to
be shared between the bands.  Although the house was near full, the club
said that they didn't even take the n covers at the door, so neither
band got a bean.  

I wouldn't care, if it weren't that it was *my* gear he used, and *I*
had to roadie it down there.  I didn't get even get the petrol money.

I used to think that jazz gigs paid badly ...

Russ