
Originally Posted by
dirty breaks
Nero don't ask for much because that's a DJ gig, all you can really ask for is drinks to be made available and make sure that the set up is to your specification.
Pendulums is different, it's not an ego trip on their behalf. a touring bands backstage staff doesn't get much time to themselves, for example they will have to eat at the venue (which they've arrived at hours early to set up) and wont leave the venue until late after the show has finished, so they will have to eat on site, this is why there's loads of food for 48 people on the rider. paying for 50 staff to eat each day is not financially feasible over the course of a tour, so putting food on the rider for the touring staff is the only way to ensure they will get fed. the 50 towels and showers is for the staff (hence why the showers are available an hour after load out) so that they can get clean before they get back on the road to travel to the next venue. any strange or very specific requests on the rider is because of previous venues being tight or getting the rider wrong. a bowl full of blue M&M's is not because of some ego trip, but a test to see if the venue will go that extra mile for the band, and any specific ones are a test to see how much the venue pays attention to the rider and because they will be tight with shit to save money.
if anything that rider is a sign that they looked after their road staff well.
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