[kj] I hope they keep down the Price of Gigs!

[Graeme Rowland]

"The Music business is shit!
 Record companies!
 Who are these people to tell me what to do?"
            (Jaz Coleman)

*You're on the pricelist!

Here is a new game for victims of the jolly old music
swiz: SPOT THE GREEDY PISS-TAKER

PJ Harvey Leeds gig last September: £17 plus two quid
on door.

Shellac gig in London in December: £12 plus £1.44
"booking fee" 

Gang of Four in smaller room in same venue PJ Harvey
played: £18.50 plus two quid on door

Killing Joke at the Empire: £23 plus "booking fee"

U2 in Scottish Yuppie Vertigo Stadium Hamper Den:
£50/£60/£85 plus £4.75 "service charge" plus £4.95
"processing fee" plus £21.30 ($40) for the privilege
of buying codes to access a ticket selling website
that didn't work properly. Tickets are nevertheless
already on sale on ebay, the marketplace for the
vulturous unnecessary middle man.

*Down on the disco floor, they make their profit!

U2 employ European tour promoter (J Giddings) who
states that this is entirely reasonable and merely
reflects the cost of stadium gigs. It would be quite
interesting to see a breakdown of these costs. 

*Each day more death!

In other news, I went to Birmingham to see Gang of 4
play a smaller gig to an older crowd than in
Manchester & Leeds, on the same day the bungling US
Empire lost 31 troops in a helicopter crash in Iraq
and Tory Bliar described Bush as a peace loving man.
No doubt the lovely Dubya, who has been kind enough to
inform us that loss of life is bad, and who has done
so much to bring peace and tranquility to the
oilfields of Iraq that his business assosciates wish
to exploit, would be just as amazed by a ship that
looks like a lump of stone as some Scottish journalist
is.

*Cheeseburger to go!

Two teenagers are sueing mucky Donald the rancid clown
of death for making them fat. They want to scam
billions as recompense for ending up resembling ugly
balloons after eating cheesebuggers & fries five days
a week, as part of their carefully controlled cancer
plan diet.

Colonel Chickenheds better hope they didn't go for the
Kentucky Gutbucket Pukefest at the weekend!  

*Please send them evenings and weekends!

INXS are handing out flyers after Gang of Four gigs
looking for a new singer.

*Could you be happy as someone else?

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