Suicide Silence, who is currently on tour celebrating 10 years of "The Cleansing", has launched a "roadie for a day" bundle. For $150, 7 fans per show can be "roadies", helping the band's crew load in, have a pre-show meal with the crew, mingle with the band during soundcheck and stand side stage while Suicide Silence is playing. Oh and get a "Suicrew" tee and a laminate.
Get the experience of a lifetime and be a roadie for a day when we roll through your city! Sign up to work alongside our crew, stand side stage during our set, hang out with us during soundcheck and more: https://t.co/ojM2qI8nm0 pic.twitter.com/kM0Y0HgfyU— Suicide Silence (@suicidesilence) 22 Νοεμβρίου 2017
What Suicide Silence is offering is a VIP bundle under a different name. The deceiving motto "roadie for a day, lessons for a lifetime" conceals the fact that the band will be making up to a grand per show, clearly exploiting their fans' passion. Having inexperienced, most likely underage people paying to "work" as crew members is not the way to network and gain experience, quite the contrary actually. Let's be factual for a second; no promoter or venue will trust a person who, no matter how passionate they may be for this job, once payed an unreasonable amount of money to be disregarded by the crew while the band only showed up for soundcheck. It's one thing to see how the show is put together (as you would, say, in a VIP session including backstage passes as someone suggested) and another to be in the way while the actual crew needs to carry expensive equipment and set up everything in time.
The responses to this post were punishing.
"Get in the way of all the crew, annoy the venue staff as they're not insured to have member of the public hanging around during setup, eat the actual crew's catering (who at this point are barely tolerating you), and get a shitty Gilden T-Shirt"— LUNDØN (@LundonMusic) 22 Νοεμβρίου 2017
This is a bad idea. Y’all know the perceived “glamor” of backstage is bullshit, and that any “winner” here will be a burden to your actual crew. Hire a professional, and do a regular merch giveaway for your fans.— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) 22 Νοεμβρίου 2017
I have a novel idea that’s essentially the same idea minus all the embarrassment. They’re called... are you ready? Back... Stage... Passes!— Aaron Melzer (@AaronJMelzer) 22 Νοεμβρίου 2017
I prefer the @LIFETIGHTUK bundle 😂 😂 😂 pic.twitter.com/rQBu7rBtMA— Throw Dough Baggins (@throw_dough) 22 Νοεμβρίου 2017
Or better yet, train up and get paid to roadie for bands 100x better than these whilst having the experience of a lifetime— Rachel Taylor (@PawsTaylor) 22 Νοεμβρίου 2017
in late capitalist emo band culture, you pay to work— 🌈sylveon whomst do an ˇwˇ🌈 (@PixlSheep) 22 Νοεμβρίου 2017
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