Pubs

[Taxi driver42]

Heard on radio a  guy from vintners accocation saying pubs wont open up till end of Sept at least

Retail like Penny's or b and q sooner but pubs at least end of sept
Fuck I dont drink in pubs much anymore but when they open il be first in this shit is to depressing

[stonethecrows]

Whole new world around the corner, people can get used to not drinkn in pubs !

[dublin2018]

Thats zero taxi work then only freenows 50% off work.As no tourists either.I wonder will they give us welfare after €350 covid payment expires

[dublin2018]

Whole new world around the corner, people can get used to not drinkn in pubs !

Many Pubs will never open again as no funding

[john m]

posted this a few days ago.....Fella I know hires casual labour says pubs wont reopen till September unless they have a large beer garden or outside seating area .Horseracing ,GAA soccer concerts no chance until September .He says that the contract to supply barriers for the Dublin City Marathon has been canceled as athletes cannot train for the event .Horseshow not yet cancelled but he has not been asked yet to supply casual day labourers .

[Shallowhal]

I'll be sick if Longitude is cancelled this year....i look forward to not picking the little shitebags up after the gigs!!

[john m]

Talking to a lad manages some good Irish bands he recons some of them will get knocked back next year .He had some great bookings for them for this years festivals .He thinks next year established artists will reduce their fees or play for nothing just to remind fans they are still around and to pretend they are supporting the promoters to get back up and running .

[Belker]

It's gonna be 'Stormy Sea's' ahead fer most of us, batten down the hatches fer now,
and then work your ass off fer pittance till we get past it, hopefully it will be 2022 before
we see a return to the income we had just a few short weeks ago.

[Shallowhal]

Have ye got the money for your new jammer Ken?

[watty]

Talking to a lad manages some good Irish bands he recons some of them will get knocked back next year .He had some great bookings for them for this years festivals .He thinks next year established artists will reduce their fees or play for nothing just to remind fans they are still around and to pretend they are supporting the promoters to get back up and running .

Musicians will have to adapt, just like they did switching to gigging when CD sales dropped off a cliff.

Fairly depressing RTE article quoting Colm Mac Con Iomaire (very good Irish musician).  They're only making pennies from streaming (see below).  However, some are making money from hosting live gigs from their house.  Obviously the big bands can't do that and make millions.  But the smaller and mid-tier bands could probably make a few hundred a week if they tried it out?

RTE/Mac Con Iomaire:

He said that 48% of music is streamed by YouTube but it only accounts for 7% of the revenue. He explained that 1,000 streams on Apple music would pay around €7, but the same amount on spotify would be around €3.50, but on YouTube it is around 58 cents.

Another example maybe... Your daughter is a DJ.  You/she have probably heard of 'BBC Essentials' or 'Late Night Tales'.  If she has a following online, maybe she could have a competition/twitter poll to get people to suggest the first song and she could make a 1hr playlist or something like that could be download from soundcloud etc.  Would people pay a €5/10 for that?

[john m]

Music game is long dead .You cant run a business without new stock .Busiest artists are all over 60 most in their 70s Stones.Stewart ,Bruce ,Elton .Even in Dublin the biggest draw Laurie Hearts

[dalymount]

Jeez John, you actually remember Laurie Hartz ? I remember him in the Tudor rooms . There was a friend of mine used to do the Cabernet scene in Dublin at that time also. The values, they were a great duo, poor auld Gerry Farrelly , he's dead now unfortunately, but they were fantastic

[john m]

Lauri is booked for up to a year in advance 1600 for him and his backing musician .

[dalymount]

Years since 9 seen him . I think the last place I seen him was the Drake inn in finglas

[stonethecrows]

Rumour had it that Laurie used to have a bit of piping in his pants