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NYTA Collective talent booking/brainstorm
well, the idea got thrown around in the 'message to promoters thread' about booking j00f but i figure it's a good idea to get a real thread based on the concept that started there going.
on paper the concept is pretty simple: get a group of people willing to pool together the money to book some artists. so i guess it all starts here. before anyone can take this idea any further, we need to know who will realistically participate.
if we were able to get a membership number of ~50 people, we could all pitch in ~30 for a party that costs 1500 (travel, lodging, advertisement, whatever miscellaneous expenses). or, having a reoccurring membership fee where all the finances are pooled into one useable fund. obviously with those figures we're not talking about booking Skrillex for the next meadowlands show. this isn't about competing with the major promoters here in the city or becoming the next big NYC booking agency.
in my own personal opinion, i think if there were enough people legitimately interested in doing something like this, the best bet would to be a test run where the costs are split among the members and then afterwards figuring out the next steps. it would more than likely need to spread beyond the TA forums and hopefully we all know a handful of people who would also be down to pool some money to get a variety of talent in new york.
if i had to imagine HOW this would work, here's the layout I have running through my head:
1. Members join up and agree to participate by paying their share in future parties
2. Members submit potential booking ideas to be consolidated into a singular poll for everybody in the group to vote on
3. Top voted talents are then contacted, and estimated costs are received
4. Based on estimated costs and # of members, the most realistic talent is chosen and members pool costs together
lets hear your thoughts, and speak up if you'd be down for something like this
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The hardest part of this I think will really be figuring out a way to organize a member / payment process and to get people to commit to it in advance. Throwing the shows should be relatively easy if we can figure that part out - and on that end the more suggestions from everyone the better.
Trance is hardly my thing nowadays but I'm willing to contribute to the collective effort.
