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I think people need to make a distinction between P2P and promoters taking a cut of ticket money.

Pay to play is where a promoter will charge you an up-front fee to play the gig in an effort to cover their losses should the band fail to sell enough tickets. This is an especially shitty practice for two reasons. Firstly, the promoter has no motivation to find a properly talented band to put in their event. Secondly, it is usually taken up by young bands who don't know any better who get the mistaken impression that being in a band is like this all the time, then end up chucking it in like a jaded 45 year old wash-up despite only being just out of high school.

Promoters taking a cut of ticket prices is the way things should be and is completely fair as long as it isn't weighed too much in either direction (there are exceptions but I'm not here to spoon-feed every little titbit to you).

Also, Elite. I think it's fair to point out that a hard working promoter is not necessarily a good one.