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rekordah wrote:

bandshell wrote:

promo wrote:

bandshell wrote:Artists make music, promoters make money.

Lol you smoking crack bro - what promoters are they lol?

I meant artists do it because they want to make the art, promotion is done to make money.

Obviously there are a lot more money people within both than there are people doing it for the art etc in both.

You're pushing something into the public eye to try and sell it to them, the idea being to succesfully sell it and therefore make money.

Again, this is bullshit in the majority of cases.

Have you ever gotten really into an artist's music to the point where you rave about them to your mates and try and play it to anyone who will listen? I think for most promoters, the thing that is driving you to do that is the same thing that is driving them to put on nights - love for music, and the urge to spread and share the enjoyment you get from it with other people. I'd go as far as saying that this pretty much has to be a promoters motivation if they have put on a few events, because if money was the motivation they would of seen how easy it is to end up losing money rather than making it, and quit after the first couple of nights.

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong about the whole thing. Maybe if we are talking in the context of Dubstep in the present day, then perhaps it has become easy to make money - especially if you are booking bait artists and promoting boring, cookie-cutter line-ups.