The Contract

There's few things in the live music business quite like the circus of a band's contractual agreement with a festival.

From sloppy copy and paste jobs to being told to sign off technical specs you haven't received and a shopping list of reasons why a band can cancel to a litany of clauses to say why a promoter can't, it's all a bit of a clown show which would be laughed at in any court of law.

But as the promoter do you play the game like everyone else to appease the big agencies or is simply hitting the delete button the best course of action?

Especially when no signature means you accept all terms and conditions, obviously...

We go again, every Thursday morning.

ArcTanGent and Damnation organisers, James Scarlett and Gavin McInally, discuss the good, the bad and the downright ridiculous of promoting festivals.

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