Live music is in crisis + cost of living crisis + climate crisis… and yet the Eras tour:
🎟️ $2,077,618,725 ticket sales
🚗 10,168,008 attendees
🪑 Average seat cost of $204, 55.73% higher than the average
✈️ Concertgoers spent an average of $1,300 on travel, lodging, food and merch
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🎟️ $2,077,618,725 ticket sales
🚗 10,168,008 attendees
🪑 Average seat cost of $204, 55.73% higher than the average
✈️ Concertgoers spent an average of $1,300 on travel, lodging, food and merch
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I think it's very interesting to follow up if the promoters, artist management, LiveNation etc actually did make their financial support to the MVT alongside the Coldplay donation. Talk is cheap.
Going sideways, is the worry over the government's plan to combine council pension schemes into a few big schemes. Then who will manage them and what will they then invest in?
Small is now to be squeezed.
It’s the total lack of trickle down or reinvestment and what sometimes feels less like domination, more a flavour of monopolisation of the music ecosystem (and attention economy) by a few acts
Billionaires are a system failure
Music - much like our climate - doesn’t have to be this way but we should be cautious of an extinction level event
I don’t have the answer yet but I’ll be speaking to pioneering musicians and experts from music but also in totally different fields
The charity said Taylor's donation allowed them to buy one and a half articulated lorries full of food.
But to be cynical, like the Royals, it feels like a cog of crisis comms and may have a tax benefit
She’s in a rare position that she could shame corporations and billionaires into paying fair wages and their fair share of taxes, so that food banks don’t need to exist
Those bonuses are a small % income split with each crew member on 90 trucks
Music is filled with people who conflate the most popular with “the best”
And music is often a canary down the coal mine for society - what happened in digitisation / streaming soon happened to journalism, Hollywood, the high street, etc.