Me and my mates are getting a bit sick of just being the punter and want to put on a rock night at a local venue e.g none town. I have found a good venue (actually my local Irish club and I am a long time punter). The city centre has lots of rock nights and some of them are very busy but locally the bars are playing house music and other types of bland generic dance music. We would be playing classic rock,ska, classic punk, pop punk, screamo, industrial, emo and maybe some of the softer stuff.
In the local pubs that have juke boxes its always rock and punk classics (Bowie, The Clash etc) and from my own customers I know there is a demand for rock music locally. We basically want to put on a charity night but none of us have the PA equipment.
We are all getting quit well known within the local rock club scene and I think it will be quite easy to get a few people in. The idea is it will be a charity night at first becase they are good springboard to get more well known.
Anyway how does the music work? I the venue has a PRS so does that mean we can play our own CDs? I am very confused about this aspect and I want to keep this legal but its easier than said than done. Is their any easier solution to this such as spotify for DJs?
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Mon 13 Sep 10 at 17:54
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It depends what licence they've got. I think it's their responsibility anyway, rather than yours. They will set their charges to cover the cost, which is probably an annual licence rather than an event-by-event charge (both exist).
If you really want to know, ask the PRS - ideally on a no-names basis in case you don't like the answer!
I'm a trustee of a village hall, and we have to tell them every year what our income is (broadly the hire income) and we pay them 1% of it. You can't extrapolate from that because it's a special "community buildings" rate. Commercial/club premises will pay more, based on what they want to do, how big they are, and/or how much money they take and/or spend on acts.
Any use? I assume you've looked at the PRS website?
Last edited by: Manatee on Mon 13 Sep 10 at 20:29
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When we did discos at Owens Park halls of residence (anyone know of OPSA?!!) I am pretty sure we kept track of all tracks we played and then payed PRS based on actual music played. My involvement ended in 1995 mind.
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Am I correct in thinking that any PRS (levy) if that is the correct terminology is actually not compulsory?
MD
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>>Am I correct in thinking that any PRS (levy) if that is the correct terminology is actually not compulsory?
No.
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Friends of mine ran a small cafe and had to pay a few hundred for a licence to play the radio.
I think, strictly speaking, a licence is required to use a radio at work among colleagues, ie: out of earshot of the public.
As others have said, the PRS website is the place to go.
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The last PRS bloke to visit my dad's factory (when it was open) was unceremoniously thrown out, apparently followed by several well-aimed radios.
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Putting on a club night - music licence - Manatee
