About this episode

Alan Averill discusses the morality and necessity of VIP tour packages in the current music industry landscape.

These days almost every tour has a meet and greet VIP package, I used to feel they were immoral but with ever rising costs I evaluate my position and wonder are they essential now to a musicians ability to earn anything on tour anymore? it's a complex moral conundrum....so let's get into it nemtheanga_primordial on the gram support the show over at : https://patreon.com/AlanAverill Primordial on Spotify YES THERE'S A NEW Primordial LIVE ALBUM OUT !! https://open.spotify.com/artist/0BZr6WHaejNA63uhZZZZek?si=yFFV8ypSSDOESUX62_0TzQ sponsored by Metal Blade records https://metalblade.indiemerch.com/ promo code AA 2024 for 10% off your order ships worldwide For info on my work as a booking agent go to: https://www.facebook.com/DragonProductionsOfficial or email alan@dragon-productions.com Primordial cds/lps available from https://www.metalblade.com/primordial/ death metal VERMINOUS SERPENT https://open.spotify.com/artist/54Wpl9JD0Zn4rhpBvrN2Oa?si=zOjIulHXS5y9lW1YHMhgTA doom DREAD SOVEREIGN https://open.spotify.com/artist/60HY4pl0nbOrZA6u2QnqDN?si=sxQ5_1htR6G3WIvy1I_wXA goth APRILMEN https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GzLO1YJClmN5TvV4A37MJ?si=cRXSk24lQKWSqJG-B8KbWQ Support this show…

Topics covered

• VIP tour packages
• music industry
• morality in music
• touring costs

Keywords

• meet and greet
• musicians
• earnings
• moral conundrum

Sponsors

Metal Blade records

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Primordial live album, Primordial CDs/LPs

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