"On Top Of" Fees Aside from fees to cut the cake or redecorate your venue, you need to consider what we like to call "on-top-of" costs.
The venue needs revenue, and the visiting company – perhaps a new venture – simply hasn't the budget for an orchestra, caught in a Catch 22 of being unable to attract sponsors without prestige, but desperately lacking prestige without live music.
To address the friction for venues mentioned above, Concert Window attempts to take the work out of the hands of venue managers — all the venue needs is an Internet connection.
Mintz and Lieb didn't get into too many concrete examples as to how restaurants and other businesses will use the service, but they made it sound like the platform will be flexible depending on what the venue needs.
Every little venue needs handholding and we authors will help get the word out, but everyone in pub is so afraid to say anything that might be construed as "insulting".
Last year, the UK government introduced the Agent of Change bill, which aims to safeguard venues against threats of noise complaints, but in order to apply for the licence the venue needs to have not received any previous noise complaints.
However, the crumbling venue needed serious renovation.
The right venue needed to be not only flexible to meet our needs, but also to understand them.
Olympic chief John Armitt last week conceded that the taxpayer may have to stump up the funds to pay for every single venue needed for the east London games in 2012, threatening to eat further into the £2.7bn contingency budget.
