Pomplamoose Tour (Part 4: Another Perspective)
Many DIY bands are confusing their tour expenses with how Pomplamoose (a duo) had expenses.
Let’s look at it from another perspective.
If Pomplamoose was a six piece band, instead of a duo, the numbers would look differently because that salary for session players would be the band’s money:
Let’s assume the $48094 salary of hired band members (4) and crew (2) was divided evenly.
$16,031.33 paid to the crew. $32,063 is no longer an expense.
* * * New Numbers * * *
So the total gross income of the tour is $135,983
$147,802 of expenses becomes $115,739. (We’ve subtracted $32,063 for this hypothetical experiment.)
So the tour would profit $20,244.
Divide that by 6 and each member made $3,374 for a month of work.
That’s not great, but this Pomplamoose’s first national tour, and they invested in their production.
* * * Forest from the Trees * * *
This is a forest from the trees discussion.
Pomplamoose isn’t a band, it’s a duo. One household–two people who are dating–keep all of the yearly income.
By the end of the year, they make more money as a duo from their diversified incomes (Youtube ads, Patreon sponsors, iTunes/Spotify revenue, etc) than they would as a band dividing everything six ways.
Sure, Jack and Nataly took the risks for a month of their tour, but by the end of the year they are in the black.
* * * More Things to Read, AKA I’ve had too much time on my hands on my day off cleaning the house before family visits for the holidays * * *
read Jack Conte’s article about the losses his band had on tour.
— My three blogs about this topic of touring: part 1 the salaries…; part 2 the hotels…; part 3 the numbers.
(And yes, the hired guns need to be paid and should sleep in a hotel room rather than the van.)
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