June 3, 2004

• You are My Fire... And IIIIIIIIIIII... Will Always Love You!

  
  

  As a supplement to my last post: Whitney Houston to Perform in China

  
  

  When I promoted the Diana Krall concert out here, the seating in the hall where she sang was 990 capacity.  For the two evenings she sang, neither were sold out.  Mind you, it probably wasn't promoted as well as it could have been.  There were no sponsors and on average, tickets sold for about 100 bucks Canadian.  If you do the math, you can figure out how much revenue we were able to bring in for this.  With all these concerts coming into town there is definitely going to be a scarcity of funds...

  
  

  When the Rolling Stones planned their trip to Shanghai and Beijing, the performance fee alone was $1,000,000 USD.  In addition to their performance fees, was all the promotion fees involved along with all the random things that the performers needed including paying for transport of all their equipment, all food and accomodations, local transportation the list just went on and on.  Unfortunately, SARS killed the project, but that would have been one of the craziest concerts to have ever gone down in China.

  
  

  Rap is really taking hold in China too, but it's doubtful that the government would approve any rap artists for China.  First of all, when translating all the music to Chinese, how would you explain badonkadunk?  Da pi gu I guess.  But I don't think China is ready for black.  How cool would it be if Jay-Z or 50-Cent came!  China would have to settle for some good ol R&B action.

  
  

  Oh oh oh oh oh oh, she says she wants some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross a little Anita would defn'ly set this party off right...

  
  

  Happy Birthday's to Mercy, Connie, Yvonne, Vivian, Corine, Amy.

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