>>>the standard package is that bands get either $175 cash -or- wristbands
for all band members and 1 crew member and a badge for one member of the
band.
Well thank God they get something. Now I am sure that with the $400 that the
ring leaders of SXSW charge to attend, and the big ass wrist band price they
also get, SXSW can start working toward the goal of putting the bands up in a
nice trailer park sometime in the near future.
My point is this. Like any cattle call, the bands put all thier hopes and
dreams and wishes into it. They pull together gas money to drive from bum fuck
to attend if they are accepted, and SOMEONE is making a pile of dough on thier
dreams. The least any band can ask if they play anywhere, CATLLE CALL or GIG,
is to have a warm, safe place to stay for the night (even if it is being
hosted by a local band, on the living room floor), food to fill them up, and
enough gas money to get them to and from the gig without taking food from the
mouths of their loving supporting families back home in bum fuck. Ahh, but
THAT would be a perfect world huh, or a Lucinda Williams song.
