Rip Off London
I'm in London this week and I'll be lucky if I'll break even. I'll probably make a small loss. There is no reason that gigs in London should pay any less than gigs around the rest of the country but they do and they pay considerably less.


If you live out of town like me then coming to London is like taking a 50% cut in wages.


Tonight I'm being paid £80 for a gig that's going to cost me about £80 to do.


The only justification for the low wages is the fact you can work for more clubs in a night in London.


This is the argument. We'll rip you off because you can go and get ripped off several times in one night and end up with about the same amount of money you would have been paid for one gig out of town.

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TAGS : Tom Binns

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