"Assuming 29,000 payers are stumping up an average $450 each, the duo raked in at least $12 million in gate receipts....."
"Splendour would have cost about $15-16 million — pretty steep when something like Big Day Out costs about $25 million for seven shows..."
"...Kanye would have set back organisers $1.5 million (plus accommodation, flights and incidentals taking it up to about $2 million), Coldplay about $1 million, Jane's Addiction $700-$800,000 and a mid-tierer like Cloud Control $20-25,000. Even a smaller local act like The Holidays would cost about $10,000. Total takeaway profits from Splendour? Around $4-5 million, according to the source."
"...many of the festival's local acts drawn from....[orgnasiser] Piticco's own label, Dew Process.....Out of the label's 31 signed artists, 11 played this year. Just two — Freelance Whales and Dropkick Murphys — have never played the festival...."
"There are also some glaring synergies with national youth broadcaster Triple J, who provides marketing cachet via constant spruiking by its presenters on the condition the festival grant it exclusive broadcast rights. It also seems to play most of the acts on high rotation."
Paul O'Callaghan
Taking from the rich and giving to the poor isn't too popular these days. The Gillard Government's plan to compensate low-income households for the impact of the carbon tax draws cries of anguish from the self-appointed representatives of aspirational Australia. Many people think the tax and welfare system is a giant piggy bank. If they don't get back everything they pay in taxes they complain that the system is unfair. The Robin Hood approach where those who are comfortably well off help support those who are struggling is falling out of favour. And it's not just opposition to the carbon tax. Tabloid papers seem intent on stirring up a full-scale tax revolt. Fueling this new class war is the belief that the biggest difference between people on high and low incomes is how talented the...
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