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I agree with your points. Yeah Frankie Bones is a legend but so is Paul Oakenfold and the guy is virtually nobody today. Plus he pretty much sucks now. I can't say I've heard anything by Frankie lately so I don't even know if he's still putting material out but if he's still got even a fraction of his previous talent it'll be a great show.
You're right, outside of Canada none of these headliners (except for the main headliner) are huge names. Yes, well respected but they probably don't have huge marketing machines behind them either.
Plus the issue with booking NYE headliners is that if you want to get anyone who's name is anywhere near the TA or DJmag or Mixmag lists then you're going to shell out top dollar to get them in. I've heard some of the bigger names will rake in well in excess of $100K for NYE. Plus if you look at the headliners for bigger parties in Canada on NYE like Resolution in Montreal even they're rarely getting the bigger names before 4 or 5 in the morning because they were playing somewhere else right before that and were flown in to the second event of the night. I think SvD or Tiesto was an example of that at Resolution last year or the year before when he went on at like 7am or something to start. That's insane if you ask me.
We just don't have the money to book any of these huge names for NYE, especially more than one major headliner who's got recent high rotation material out there. That's not intended as an insult to those who've been booked as I'm excited to see almost all of them perform but we've got to face facts that we're a small market compared to TO, NY, or LA.
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