REDDIT FESTIVAL NEWS As someone who is really missing live music and who loves smaller venues, I’m asking y’all to sign the attached petition that would give some relief to the places that bring us the artists we really want to see in the places that it’s best to see them in. SAVE OUR STAGES!

4 responses to “REDDIT FESTIVAL NEWS As someone who is really missing live music and who loves smaller venues, I’m asking y’all to sign the attached petition that would give some relief to the places that bring us the artists we really want to see in the places that it’s best to see them in. SAVE OUR STAGES!”

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   wildlight

   August 4, 2020

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   In my home town the several local musicians have gotten together to put on live streamed music performances. Maybe you can trying to put together something like that. I promise you that there’s a huge effort to figured out how the industry can reopen and its involving input across the industry in all fifty states. This is just one most high risk activities possible and making sure the audiences, performers and technicians are all as safe as as possible and that events don’t turn into huge outbreaks is going to take some time. One very important thing is to develop universal standards that touring acts can safely know that any city they go to are following the same standards and using best practices. Absolutely everyone one of us the works in the industry is anxious to get back to work and know what our futures are going to look like, but we were the first to be shut down and will be about the last the be able to open back up.

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   Brad_Thundercock

   August 4, 2020

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   The problem here is that there’s no definition for what constitutes “independent” music venues. For example, the top clubs in the nation are technically “independently” owned (of course their owners are absolutely filthy-rich millionaires with multiple Miami penthouses). So why the hell should we be giving relief to the 1%?

   It’s good in concept (i.e., help SMALL venues whose owners are struggling) but not in execution. There’s no distinction made between people who actually need the money and people who don’t. I’m not signing something to give millionaires more money. Let them sell their 4th, 3rd, AND second homes before they receive a penny of taxpayer money.

   In fact, don’t give a penny to any club owner until they’ve given up enough of their own personal wealth so that they’re as wealthy as their poorest employees.

   Once that provision is in there, I’ll sign it.

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   cheesey_petes

   August 4, 2020

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   This is so important right now tysm for sharing

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   frogsexchange

   August 4, 2020

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   I hate to be that guy…

   But coronavirus..