https://vo.rs/tags/venue-culture/Latest from the Venue-Culture desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 08 Oct 2016 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/the-guest-list-who-gets-in-free-and-why/<p>There is a clipboard, or these days a tablet, at the side entrance of every venue in the world, and on it is a list of names that will get in tonight without paying a single krone, euro or pound. Some of those names belong to the band&rsquo;s oldest friends. Some belong to a radio plugger who&rsquo;s never met the band and never will. Some belong to me. The guest list is one of the most ordinary fixtures of live music and one of the least examined — a small, quietly contractual document that decides, before a single ticket goes on sale, exactly who in the room got there for free and why.</p>Sat, 08 Oct 2016 09:00:00 +0000