[ddots-l] Re: Fwd: Want a music industry career? It helps to be rich
- From: "Tim Burgess" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:19:34 -0000
Hi,
I'm a representative on our regional Musicians Union committee and these
figures look about right. The Union have a banded membership fee structure
that is based on your music-related income (this is based on trust, believe
it or not) and the huge majority of the membership fall into the lowest
band.
In the current climate it's very hard to get regular work, even for those
with amazing skill levels, and we have some regulatory issues that don't
help. In London, the Metropolitan Police require venues to provide the
contact details of any performing artists as they perceive any gig to be a
possible location for public disorder - the Union are challenging this as an
infringement of civil liberties, as there's no evidence to back the claim.
I'm now waiting forr the rise of another punk movement as the antidote to
the over-polished, bland pop (pap) we're being fed and as an extension of
the mounting unrest in this country.
OK, so now I've made myself sound like some extreme revolutionary (which I'm
not, by the way), you can decide if you want to take a musical life
seriously - chances are that you'll be broke and victimised, but you'll have
a far more interesting life than if you'd worked 9 to 5.
Best wishes.
Tim Burgess
Raised Bar Ltd
Phone: +44 (0)1827 719822
Don't forget to vote for improved access to music and music technology at
http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm
-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Chris Smart
Sent: 16 December 2010 20:18
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Subject: [ddots-l] Fwd: Want a music industry career? It helps to be rich
Just passing this on.
Recently, Berklee College of Music in Boston released a study
claiming to give accurate salary expectations in various areas of
the music industry. No surprise, this document is in a /parents
sub-directory on their site, since it's just a marketing tool for
the people with the creditcards. Please see below for some
interesting and startling statistics from the UK, probably closer
to reality!
Chris
>The Guardian (UK) points out the recently released Berklee salary
>survey:
>
>"the study's salary figures for musicians appear optimistic to me.
>Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Berklee College of
>Music is reliant on thousands of students enrolling in its music
>programmes. The reality facing the majority of its students and
>the thousands of music students at colleges and universities
>across the UK when they graduate isn't quite as rosy. Once past
>the first hurdle of actually getting a job, they may find that
>club gigs often pay nothing at all. Some promoters even demand
>that you pay to play.
>
>According to the Musicians' Union, 87% of its members are making
>less than £16,000 a year. For songwriters, the prospect of making
>a sustainable living out of writing is even less likely: 90% of
>PRS for Music members earn less than £5,000 a year. This indicates
>that being independently wealthy is a serious advantage if one
>wants to make music a full-time occupation."
>
>Furthermore, according to a study recently conducted by the
>UK-based Word Magazine, a majority of charting British pop and
>rock artists were educated in private, tuition-based schools. The
>magazine found that 60 percent hailed from schools requiring
>annual tuition, academic admissions, connections, or all of the
>above. Yet overall, just 10 percent of the general population
>enjoys such privilege. Even crazier, just one percent of charting
>British artists claimed the same pedigree in 1990.
>
>So, instead of bands like the Smiths, Oasis, and the Stone Roses,
>the current mainstream milieu includes well-reared artists like
>Lily Allen, Mumford & Sons, Coldplay, Florence Welch and La
>Roux. Digging deeper, Allen attended the pricey Bedales, at
>£9,240 ($14,357) per term, while Welch attended the Alleyn's
>School, whose per-term commitments push past £4,430 ($6,883).
>
>As it's revealed 40 per cent of them went to public school... why
>are today's pop stars so posh?
>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1336029/Posh-pop-stars-Lily-Allen
-Florence-Welch--60-cent-went-public-school.html
>
>Behind the music: Want a music industry career? It helps to be rich
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/dec/10/behind-music-industry
-salaries
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