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Music is an ecosystem.

Guestlists can:
📢 Be a thank you for helping to sell tickets
✍️ Help inform writing a feature read by 1000s
🖼 Become an iconic photo used on a record cover
🧦 The first coverage that leads to loads more media support, finding a team, getting signed…
Having run a label for most of the 00s, we should perhaps add that guestlist tickets are often bought by record companies to ensure entry for media coverage — despite promoters, booking agents, managers, publishers, and the artist benefitting long after labels are involved.
Not all guestlists are free entry. Often they simply ensure entry.

ATP charged £90 but with no accommodation (tickets weren’t much more)

Most festivals ask for £20 per day “donation” even if you’ve endlessly supported an event and will get £0-100 for reviewing the weekend.
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Ever felt like our flourishing music industry, which contributed £5.2bn to the UK economy in 2018, has been thrown under the Brexit bus?

It’s a shame that, unlike fishing (worth £437m to UK economy in 2019) our industry isn’t a priority.

(Even with a Tory running @UK_Music 🤷)
UK music economy stat source: ukmusic.org/news/music-ind…
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