Peripheryn Misha Mansoorin mukaan monet nykybändit ovat taloudellisesti ahtaalla – Peripheryä pyöritetään rakkaudesta lajiin

Peripheryn kitaristi Misha Mansoor avautui nykybändien taloudellisista haasteista Sounding Offin haastattelussa, jonka voit kokonaisuudessaan katsoa jutun lopusta. Kitaristin mukaan yhtyeestä saatavat ansiot eivät riitä elättämään, vaan musiikkia tehdään lähinnä intohimosyistä. Laadukkaat kiertueet ja yhtyeen pitäminen elinvoimaisena vaativat rahaa. Mansoorin mukaan varsinainen elanto on hankittava muualta:

“Make income outside of the band. This is what I do with the signature products. It’s my way of being able to make a living. It’s my way of being able to make a life for myself. People think sometimes, Periphery is achieving a little bit of success.’ We’re not a massive band but we do alright. But we make no money. And people have a really hard time grasping that.”

”Because even as we started making more money you’ll gross a lot and net nothing. The ability to monetize music has just dropped by a factor of god knows what – 10, 100, whatever. But the cost of touring has stayed the same. It just means that you net very little. And then if you want to have a nice production like us, you don’t want to just go barebones on everything. You want it to be an enjoyable show, so you spend money on that.”

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”So yeah, we’ll gross a fair bit but we won’t net a lot. We did a five-week tour in Europe last year, we walked away with nothing. And that’s a reality of this – European tours are very expensive. US headliners will do pretty well but you can’t do them that often because everybody’s touring – oversaturated market, your guarantees will stagnate or go down.”

Mansoor jatkaa kertomalla bänditoiminnan ja rahan suhteesta:

”It wasn’t this sort of sick dance that you do with the industry where you start out with the best of intentions but then before you know it you’re running a business and you’re trying to ride this fine line in the music business. And it just sucks out a lot of fun from it. I’m trying to keep music fun.”

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”And now that it’s entirely removed form my money-making… Periphery doesn’t have any impact on my finances. So now we can just be truly the passion project that I wanted it to be. And I don’t care if no one buys our albums because they weren’t gonna buy it anyways. [Laughs] It’s not like we’re gonna sell records.”

Mansoorin kommentit ovat poikineet internetin puolella myös kritiikkiä. Kitaristi on ottanut osaa keskusteluun muun muassa seuraavasti:

“I’m definitely not complaining, there is opportunity in this industry. And I just want people who aspire to be in bands to know what they are in for. The better educated you are to the situation, the better decisions you can make.”

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