Music and live entertainment

1. Two promoters in the inner west pay sixty to ninety days late as routine. Every working band knows which. Never posted publicly, because they book the rooms everyone needs.

2. Watch for a door split where the venue controls the count with no independent tally. We got paid on sixty having watched a hundred and forty come in. Ask about the tally method first. The cagey ones tell you everything.

3. Ask a freelance sound engineer who's worked fifty rooms which venues don't pay. One sentence, in person, after pack-down, never over text.