New Years Eve fee

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hotpickupshotpickups Frets: 1813
Haven't done a New Years Eve gig for years now but what would you say is an acceptable going rate to ask for a 5 piece R&B/Soul type band? I don't want to price us out of the market nor do I want to appear too cheap etc. It will be a non ticketed pub gig


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  • rossyamaharossyamaha Frets: 2439
    For a 5 piece I would be charging minimum £1250. Depending on the venue it can go up from there. 

    I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.

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  • hotpickupshotpickups Frets: 1813
    For a 5 piece I would be charging minimum £1250. Depending on the venue it can go up from there. 
    Snap that was the exact figure I was thinking of tbh. I'm not out of touch as i thought I would've been :)
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  • not_the_djnot_the_dj Frets: 7306
    x3 the regular Sat night fee. 
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  • hotpickupshotpickups Frets: 1813
    edited May 2017
    x3 the regular Sat night fee. 
    Saturday night gigs round my way don't pay that much. I'd be lucky to get £300 for a band like mine. Not sure I could get the band to commit to a NYE gig for £900. £1250 would cut it though. I'll go in at that first

    Thanks
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  • MajorscaleMajorscale Frets: 1553
    Last NYE my 5 piece played a local pub and we got £1000. The year before a different pub and made only £650. Depends on the venue and how much you want to do it. Personally I'm more into playing for the fun than the cash but at the same time you don't want to undervalue yourself unnecessarily. 
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  • hotpickupshotpickups Frets: 1813
    Last NYE my 5 piece played a local pub and we got £1000. The year before a different pub and made only £650. Depends on the venue and how much you want to do it. Personally I'm more into playing for the fun than the cash but at the same time you don't want to undervalue yourself unnecessarily. 
    Precisely my feeling too. Like you I do it for fun mainly but others in the band would need to be enticed away financially from spending it with their families on that night. I hate new years Eve and would rather be playing personally 
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  • ESBlondeESBlonde Frets: 3576
    It's the one night of the year when many venues want/need a decent band and so they are in short supply. It's also the one night of the year you could go out with your mates and have a party. It's also likely to be a long night that you work and stay sober deal with idiots. Charge the fee, be professional and if they can't afford you have a party somewhere else.
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  • Danny1969Danny1969 Frets: 10357
    I would say it depends on the pub .... a big Fullers pub wouldn't think nothing of a band charging 1K on NYE but a smaller one which couldn't shift that much beer might due to it's size might not make enough profit to pay that ... bearing in my there's no ticket price

    1K to 1,25K be about right though for a largish pub that could sell 5 to 7K's worth of alcohol 
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  • hotpickupshotpickups Frets: 1813
    He wants to pay us £400 for a New Years gig ha ha ha ha ha
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  • hotpickupshotpickups Frets: 1813
    Ha ha ha ha ha 
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  • sw67sw67 Frets: 228
    It depends - i am playing my local for £400 this year for the 2nd time. Its more a night out with mates and always a laugh.
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  • hotpickupshotpickups Frets: 1813
    sw67 said:
    It depends - i am playing my local for £400 this year for the 2nd time. Its more a night out with mates and always a laugh.
    I couldn't get my lot out from their young families for that amount of money i.e. under £100 each. I guess if you're a youngster or old enough that the kids have left home etc it would be ok. Annoyingly though he was going to pay that for a solo singer and backing tracks than pay a full live band. Modern times I guess. Live performances aren't as important as they used to be ;)
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  • ESBlondeESBlonde Frets: 3576
    £400 each seems a reasonable amount, otherwise why put your wives/gf/partner through another boring gig and be working long hours or pay through the nose for babysitters (also expensive and in short supply for the same reasn).

    It's a great evening for the venue to make a killing but not at my expense thank you.

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  • hotpickupshotpickups Frets: 1813
    Each? That was for the whole band lol
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  • nick79nick79 Frets: 252
    We are doing one this year for £650, that's between 5 of us. A bit less than i would like but the venue gives us 4 or 5 gigs a year so it's worth doing it. 

    I also don't usually bother going out on new years eve, in our house its a bit of a non event so i don't feel like i'm missing anything. In fact i'll be gaining a bit of cash and night out. 
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  • hotpickupshotpickups Frets: 1813
    Yeah that would be acceptable if they're giving you multi gigs :)
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16253
    I think I say this every year but it still confuses me as to why a pub would pay more for a band on New Years Eve ( this is not the same as why you'd charge more to play). If there's one night a pub/ venue can pretty much guarantee punters through the door/ turn a profit without much effort surely it's NYE ? 

    Not that I go anywhere, my NYE is trying to calm the dog down because of the fecking fireworks.
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  • hotpickupshotpickups Frets: 1813
    I still think £1000 is enough for a 5 piece though to make it worth while. I hate NYE so happy to be playing but that is not shared by all my band members and would want paying above average to get them to commit :( oh well I guess NYE isn't for me then 
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  • We normally double our usual wedding / corporate fee for New Years Eve, so we quote around £2000 give or take depending where the venue is and how much travelling is involved (5 piece covers band).

    We do this to basically try and scare off any potential clients as none of us really want to play New Years Eve. Trouble is the last 3 years clients have paid the cash, and again this New Years Eve they have agreed to pay the fee. So as much as we don't really want to play we can't really turn down that amount of money.

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  • MajorscaleMajorscale Frets: 1553

    We normally double our usual wedding / corporate fee for New Years Eve, so we quote around £2000 give or take depending where the venue is and how much travelling is involved (5 piece covers band).

    We do this to basically try and scare off any potential clients as none of us really want to play New Years Eve. Trouble is the last 3 years clients have paid the cash, and again this New Years Eve they have agreed to pay the fee. So as much as we don't really want to play we can't really turn down that amount of money.

    Wow! I'm assuming your "clients" are not pubs?
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