stevel
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So, a venue where we regularly perform has told us we may need to supply a certificate of liability to continue to play there.
IME venues have their own insurance to cover events sponsored by them. In fact our contract states that the body hiring us must take care of insurance for the event.
That's been the way as far as I can remember, outside of "non-commercial" type events - i.e., a private function where we would want to cover ourselves in case we caused some damages that the original host could not cover and they would want to sue us or something.
It sounds to me like this venue is now trying to pass off the cost of insuring themselves to the vendors that come in. Hell, it might as well be pay to play.
My reaction is to tell them, yes, we can provide a CoL but we charge $1200 for those gigs (instead of the low rate we already play for they're of course complaining about).
Is this something you guys run into a lot? I've never even heard of it before this because generally a venue carries their own insurance and we're protected should we fall off stage because they've got a loose board or whatever.
Some of the words tossed around made it sound like to me that they want a band to be responsible for any damage caused by a drunken audience who knocks over a table and breaks something or something like that. As if their drunkeness and subsequent bacchanalian activities were incited directly by us.
We, by the way, are a bunch of 50 year olds playing 60s music - early 60s, nothing "heavy", etc. There's no craziness, only old folks having a good time. Someone might throw a hip or trip on a walker, but again, that's the venue's concern IME.
What say the combined sagacity of TGP?
Steve
IME venues have their own insurance to cover events sponsored by them. In fact our contract states that the body hiring us must take care of insurance for the event.
That's been the way as far as I can remember, outside of "non-commercial" type events - i.e., a private function where we would want to cover ourselves in case we caused some damages that the original host could not cover and they would want to sue us or something.
It sounds to me like this venue is now trying to pass off the cost of insuring themselves to the vendors that come in. Hell, it might as well be pay to play.
My reaction is to tell them, yes, we can provide a CoL but we charge $1200 for those gigs (instead of the low rate we already play for they're of course complaining about).
Is this something you guys run into a lot? I've never even heard of it before this because generally a venue carries their own insurance and we're protected should we fall off stage because they've got a loose board or whatever.
Some of the words tossed around made it sound like to me that they want a band to be responsible for any damage caused by a drunken audience who knocks over a table and breaks something or something like that. As if their drunkeness and subsequent bacchanalian activities were incited directly by us.
We, by the way, are a bunch of 50 year olds playing 60s music - early 60s, nothing "heavy", etc. There's no craziness, only old folks having a good time. Someone might throw a hip or trip on a walker, but again, that's the venue's concern IME.
What say the combined sagacity of TGP?
Steve
Another nail in the coffin of live music, as if another one was needed.
