You are given $1,000,000 budget for a concert lineup. Using this pricing list, create your fantasy concert! Rules: - You cannot go over budget - Bands that are listed within a price range (e.g. QOTSA are priced $75k-$125k) can booked with any figure in that range - Any band marked with a plus after the advertised figure (e.g. Green Day are advertised at $500k+) can be booked with any figure greater than the number. BANDS NOT ON THE LIST: If people wish to add bands that aren't on the list, request them and I'll price them. Bands not on the list (and their prices): Nine Inch Nails - $300-400k Tool - $100k+ Red Hot Chili Peppers - $500k Imagine Dragons - $200k Rush - $100k Eminem - $500k+ ------------------ Bring Me The Horizon - $60k Dream Theater - $60k ------------------ Devin Townsend - $30k Behemoth - $30k Karnivool - $25k ------------------ Opeth - $20k ------------------ Wintersun - $5k-$10k Aesop Rock - $7k Grieves - $7k Go! (NOTE: You may need a calculator) Mine is: Pearl Jam (Co-Headliners) - $300k Foo Fighters (Co-Headliners) - $500k Queens Of The Stone Age - $75K Chris Cornell - $50k Slash - $50k Blue October $25k Total: $1million
If people submit requests then I'll add them to a price list that isn't on there. I've updated with Tool and NIN.
For a $1 million budget, you guys have incredibly small scope. You can create dreams out of a million but you're just looking at expensive bands. See below. THE MINUS FESTIVAL Singer-Songwriter Lounge Kina Grannis - $7k Vienna Teng- $8k Tom Morello - $10k Kaki King - $11k Lights - $10k Janelle Monae - $40k Electronic Stage DJ Shadow - $25k The Crystal Method - $10k Matt & Kim - $35k Chvrches - $30k Big Gigantic - $35k Hip-Hop Second Stage Chiddy Bang - $25k Talib Kweli - $25k De La Soul - $15k Clipse - $15k Schoolboy Q - $25k Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - $25k Hip-Hop Main Stage Danny Brown - $11k Atmosphere - $30k Public Enemy - $20k Yelawolf - $20k Q-Tip - $25k Jurassic 5 - $40k Childish Gambino - $75k Rock Second Stage Dirty Heads - $5k The Dear Hunter - $10k Cartel - $15k Ra Ra Riot - $10k Broken Bells - $20k Portugal. The Man - $10k twenty-one pilots - $25k Arctic Monkeys - $75k Rock Main Stage The Cab - $8k Sick Puppies - $25k Mute Math - $25k Eagles of Death Metal - $35k The Neighbourhood - $40k Cage the Elephant - $50k Queens of the Stone Age - $75k Money Spent = $1,000,000 EDIT: Removed: Mighty Mighty Bosstones - $40k Added: Broken Bells - $20k Yelawolf - $20k
The key is realizing how many artists that would normally very EASILY take a headlining slot at any other festival can be bought for under $100k (And by the way, $100,000 is 1/10th of your budget. Best to keep that in mind). In my opinion, my festival has the following could-be-headliners: Cage the Elephant - $50k Queens of the Stone Age - $75k Mighty Mighty Bosstones - $40k twenty-one pilots - $25k Arctic Monkeys - $75k Jurassic 5 - $40k Childish Gambino - $75k Schoolboy Q - $25k Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - $25k Matt & Kim - $35k Chvrches - $30k Big Gigantic - $35k Janelle Monae - $40k How much of a budget does that already-dream line-up take? Only $570k. For the price of one of your SUPER BIG NAME BANDS you can get 13 headliners. For a little over 1/2 of your entire budget, you already have a line-up of which dreams are made. From there you have so much wiggle-room with other great-but-not-headlining artists that you can go absolutely nuts.
BTW I'm pulling the figures for the bands not listed completely out of my ass Mods can update the requests as well.
Did a little fine-tuning of my line-up: Removed: Mighty Mighty Bosstones - $40k Added: Broken Bells - $20k Yelawolf - $20k Updated Post of Full Line-Up
Gibby's Prog-Head Festival Dream Theater - $60,000 Opeth - $20,000 Karnivool - $25,000 Rush - $100,000 Wintersun - $10,000 Muse - $150,000 Coheed and Cambria - $50,000 Tool - $100,000 The Deer Hunter - $10,000 TOTAL SPENT: $425,000
Tool- 100k Muse- 150k Lamb of God- 50k Behemoth- 30k Devin Townsend- 30k Septicflesh- 10k 370K total I tried to keep it realistic. Didn't work.