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The Rider

What things pay, what they cost, and who is carrying the difference. This is the section that makes the rest of the magazine worth trusting.

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One role, three nights a month, and a seventh share in the magazine after a year. The terms are below in full because we would rather you self-select.
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What a support slot actually pays

We asked eleven bands what they were paid to open a show this year and what it cost them to be there. Nine of the eleven lost money. Here are the numbers.
What a support slot actually pays

The tour that lost $4100

Fourteen dates, twenty-one days, one van, and a spreadsheet the band handed over on the condition that we printed all of it. We printed all of it.
The tour that lost $4100

Four rooms closed in Halbeck this year

Two lost their licence, one lost its lease and one simply stopped answering emails in March. The city now has eleven rooms under five hundred capacity, down from twenty-two in 2019.
Four rooms closed in Halbeck this year

How we count this

Where the numbers in The Rider come from, what we do when a band will only give us part of a figure, and the two things we have got wrong so far.
How we count this