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PEL – follow the money
This article from my local newspaper should give you the idea on why the authorities are so tight on PEL's
FFS £23,500 - OK its a big name and the old mincer's management can afford it; but it just shows how the councils are determined to recover every penny of their time spent licensing an event...
and of course the cost gets passed back down to the punter, or the increased cost to the promoter is recovered elsewhere by reducing the wages of crew and production staff..
Local News 1/4/2005 - ‘We’re worth it’ town tells Elton
Row: over council’s £23,000 fee for hosting megastar gig
THE firm behind Elton John’s world tour has been told to settle up in a dispute over the fee to hold the megastar’s gig in Reading.
Promoter Marshall Arts Ltd tried to argue a £23,250 fee demanded by Reading Borough Council was far too much and asked for it to be cut.
But licensing bosses refused to budge at a meeting of the council’s licensing sub-committee on Wednesday, telling promoters “we’re worth it”.
The star is set to play Madejski Stadium on Thursday, May 26, to a 25,000 crowd.
The fee works out at less than £1 a head – for noise monitoring, complaints hotline, Health & Safety and licensing – while cheap seats at the gig cost £35 to £60.
Doris Porterfield, from Marshall Arts,said: “It’s not in line with anywhere else we have been, not just in the UK but internationally too. We are fortunate because of the revenue we are going to generate, but this is constrictive.”
Nine days after Sir Elton plays the Mad Stad he takes the tour to Stoke’s Britannia Stadium, where promoters are expecting to pay around a quarter of what Reading is charging.
Nigel Howell, spokesman for Stoke on Trent City Council, confirmed: “The licence has not been granted, but we’re charging in the region of £6,000.”
However, Clare Bradley, head of Reading’s licensing department, said: “This is a standard fee for a very large venue and in line with officer time.
“Reading’s fees, when you look at fees across the country, are one of the highest but it is at the high level because of the experience Reading has in holding large outdoor events.”
The authority pointed to its handling of the Reading Festival and Womad festivals at sites in Richfield Avenue.
Bet Tickner, who chairs the licensing sub-committee, granted Marshall Arts its licence.
She said: “You made the choice you wanted to come to Reading and I suppose, as far as I can tell, that was business based.
“This is the cost of holding such an event in Reading.”
And Councillor Jeanette Skeats, who told the meeting she already had her tickets, added: “I’m delighted you have decided to come to Reading and host this evening.”
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April 3, 2005 at 11:22 am
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anyone done any volunteer conservation work abroad?
I'd love to go to the rainforest at some point and do some volunteer work, just wondered if anyone had any first hand experience of this?
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February 21, 2005 at 9:06 am
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GOVERNMENT HYPOCRITS
Hypocritical American
Isnt it ironic that America criticizes Holland when the American companies are the greatest killers of all. i.e tobacco companies the majority of which are american owned, kill 4.9 million people per year (ref; WHO).
Its the governments of this world that make billions of dollars in tobacco taxes from the misery of others so they can spend it on weapons to kill even more of them. Governments and those irresponsible corporations should be the ones fined, jailed or even executed, not the recreational drug taker or dealer.
Who is the greatest world polluter which kills millons more people? USA
Who causes the most unrest in the world? USA
Who could do the most to help starving children and others but instead spend trillions on stupid wars and space cowboy research? USA
The only reason why governments dont legalise recreational drugs like E is because they dont make millions of dollars from taxes. Not because of any dreadfull harm they may cause. If this were true then why do they allow alcohol and tobbaco to be sold and to kill and harm millions. The number of people harmed by recreational drugs is microscopic compared to alcohol and tobacco.
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January 28, 2005 at 3:40 pm
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DSEi fallout – money, money, money $$£££€€€
following protests from Docklands residents that they will have 2 pay for the cost of policing DSEi (about £1 million) due to dealing with protesters - the Metropolitan Police Authority is now considering charging all event organisers to recover policing costs.
Unfortunately, although this may mean DSEi have to "pay their way"; they can afford it (the weapons sold to poor countries will just cost more) - the Met are now looking to recover costs from all pop concerts, festivals and other occasional music events. In other words licensing costs will go up. I understand a peace rally in East London was already stopped this way (large fee demanded at last minute).
There is also a potential extra clampdown on unlicensed events - which may even be assisted by licensed promoters who are angry at others getting a free ride. In Britain there used to be some kind of "gentlemans agreement" that commercial promoters never grassed up unlicensed events (at least in my area) - but the polis are now "spinning" them in2 doing so - "why should those pikeys get away with it when u and ur punters have had 2 pay 4 a license"?
You may hit babylon with an uppercut, but they can respond with a left hook. never let your guard down
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September 12, 2003 at 1:50 pm
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