Peter Garrett Online Forum

Here in SA the average cost of using a Council supported venue is $1000 per day. The average seating is approximately 200 - 300 so how many tickets must you sell to be able to afford the place. They will tell you that is not the cost but then they start listing the compulsory extras. the in house tech at $50 per hour the additional security costs because a guard has to work overtime, the cleaning costs (which are often not included in the base hire) etc etc. There are also supposed to be council grants available but as far as local councils are concerned I am a commercial operation, so the grants aren't available. I was faced with the amazing logic at one point of being asked to pay more to use a local hall for rehearsals from which I generated no money than I would have had to pay to put on a performance there because the performance would have been for the public but the rehearsals were a private hire??? There are almost none of these local venues left. Elizabeth still has the Shedley, we may be losing The Parks, Marion has the Domain, Golden Grove has a handball court with seating that they call a theatre but all of these places are newly built venues that are very expensive. Councils must make a profit on properties it owns now. What happened to the provision of facilities. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au