Jim Stax

They can't count

TTA now have a nine song set of our own garage-blues western-surfisms to tickle with! We will be wearing our fancy pants for the night! Can't wait.

Yes! Sorry I couldn't resist. Los Cabaleros 8.15-8.45pm Tupelo Town Assembly 9.15-9.45pm Jim Jones Revue - 10.15-11.15pm

No, its the I couldn't be arsed editing the size again due to different sites needing bigger or smaller images... It is a little bigger if you click on it

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Tupelo Town Assembly on the bill for this. We're ooking forward to it...

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Cheers for the edit Frosty

Hammond again Turn up with 100, a van and mates to move it and take it out of our way! First come first serve

Thanks for the advice so far by the way.

If its sleeping you cant access the peferences...

Seems a pals iMac is in a endless cycle of sleeping and now into its last breath. Does anyone know if it is possible to retrieve the info from the hard drive? Basically a bust computer and she needs to get the info off of it.

That brings it full circle back to ownership of the song/songs As longs as they can assure themselves of no acrimonious split down the line. All I'm offering is sound advice that will be offered by any music manager or lawyer. I've experienced first hand and seen friends that are doing quite well, have problems about ownership and royalties, almost to the point of splitting a damn good band. All this can be avoided entirely with a good band agreement and the cash equivalent of three pints each or one gig fee. On a side note, I provided live drums recorded to be used as loops for a mates band. I'm all over one of their albums, no royalty but I got a fee for my time and a name checked on the album. The fee was of secondary concern

That was a process used when it was 100 to join, makes no sense to do that these days. PRS is there to collect money for its members, and if you are a member you will get your due money. Simples

A festival will require a PRS license and therefore your entitled to a royalty which boils down to a percentage of the gate. It cost nowt to join so no harm in doing so. I advocate joining to all that are at a gigging stage. Radio stations pay their license tom PRS. They will submit paperwork, tracking system that allows the license fee and royalties to be divided up between PRS members. It used to be that the big, stars, earners would get the lion share but it is now an equal playing field and all get the relative share against audience size. It comes down to audience sizes so prime time radio 1 air play, around 19 per minute will be substantially more than that of SHMU FM...

Most bands do and it works just fine. It does, however, cause arguments and problems and bands to split up when getting into the realms of recording and publishing deals.

They would be entitled to an Arrangers fee/split. Hypothetically You are in a band, the drummer makes up a beat for your song, the song becomes a major success, the drummer has long gone and been replaced 4 times with better guys that just play, yet original drummer dude that you now hate and offered little gets 25% of the royalty for the rest of his days... That's all I'm saying. Best to be careful early on and seek advice on this if unsure. Just saying by the way of example by the way...

I don't have a link as such. Just stuff I know from over the years and mates with a PRS chap. Oh and I was just referring to the application notes and guidelines by the by As mentioned the PRS understanding is lyrics are 50% of the royalty. What each writer, band, musician decides in a contract/agreement is up to them. In a disagreement that doesn't have legal back up the aforementioned royalty split would probably stand. Plenty of cases in the press where these arguments have been battered out due to no agreement being written up to clarify things. There is some good music management literature around that can help with this stuff.

Proof of gigging or radio play etc is required. What you can provide is laid out in the PRS guidelines. Bands may not have played in PRS performance registered venue, Tunnels, Drummonds... Not hard to rattle out a set list with a date and venue on it and get someone to sign it...

You are joking yeah?

Yeah and that is to be agreed with between the band. The PRS stance is lyrics are generally seen as the top line, melody, of a song and that is what defines the song and is therefore to be considered half of the song. That's what they advice. A band agreement is often a good, and vital way, of agreeing these things prior to signing up ... Our set up is a three piece and what could be seen as third third third spilt however, Andy writes the lyrics and and we all contribute differently to certain songs so each song 'could' have an separate split for royalty purposes. So Andy could have a 75% split of a tune, if I tell him all this of course.

No excuse not to join now that its is next to free to sign up. Especially if gigging. Photocopy of passport, some proof of gigging or radio play, a set list or two signed by a promoter will work here, and a completed form and wehey... Unless they have changed anything of late. MCPS will advise you only join when getting reproductions of recordings done by a label etc... Labels need to sign up to MCPS too and pay, put aside, around 8% of each copy that is then paid to MCPS for distribution to bands. It is also worth thinking about band splits etc if there is more than one writer/composer. oh and rule of thumb for lyricist is they are 50% of the royalty split... with the remaining split divvied between the band as appropriate. Things you do to stay off of Facebook

3 bands, first band 9.30 or there abouts and will run on time. Band curfew in place by the venue for the club night see...