"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."
