[i]Think of it like the fishing industry.[/i]
It's **** all like the fishing industry. Small fishing vessels mostly pick up the quality higher priced items and big commercial trawlers sell cheap, bulk. Pretty much the opposite of the live music industry.
Anyway, I'm on the small venue side, I love small venues and go to multiple every month. I actually don't see them dying out, but that's another matter.
Yep, all those Cornish fisherman love the big commercial trawlers from Europe hoovering up all the fish up to the 6 mile limit. It's amazing how the big trawlers nets manage to discriminate between the 'cheap bulk and the quality high prices items', leaving only the tastiest morsels for the local boats.
Anyhow, the fishing analogy was just a humorous aside, why are you taking it so seriously? Having worked in music promotions, (as it happens, promoting a few nights at the venue in question back in the day) I can assure you that the fishing trawler analogy served me rather well at the time.
In fact, I probably got out of the game when I saw the big trawlers circling. Like the little boats, I was interested in quality over quantity but when the big boats come along and scrape the seabed dry you end up working with scraps.
