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Proper way to ask for "Comp" tickets? So I'm on the Eboard of my college's radio station and I want to use that status to score some free tickets!!! | |
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What's the best way to go about asking the band/venue for complimentary tickets?? What you're doing might be different. But if anyone asked me for comps to one of my shows, I'd give them a
My comps are usually very limited. I try to be fair and spread them around to friends and family evenly. No one would ever be so gauche as to ask for them. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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and never give them anything, ever again.
Yea I know what you mean! I have a friend who has a show on our station and apparently asked and got tickets to see Circa Survive I think and I don't know how to politely ask! Being a member of a school organization makes it a littl less gauche I hope | |
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What is an Eboard? Are you an actual board member (ie, do you help determine policy or programming)? Or is an Eboard just a glorified fan club?
If it's the latter, I wouldn't even bother asking, frankly. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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I'm the Program Director so yes I'm an actual member | |
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as someone who was in the industry for years personally i'd laugh and say ay Que noooooooooooooo. But I suggest that you don't really | |
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No, I promise, I hate the org! All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
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It's ok, we hate you too. | |
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We always got sign up sheets for stuff like that. But then again I worked for a large commercial station. What if you wanted comp tickets to give away on air? It's art and people get paid for their art, but if the band or whoever isn't paying for any advertising or anything, i'd EXPECT comp tickets.
I don't see anything wrong with comp tickets. We comp all DJ's at our conferences because they're important and they publicize us. Now, if a random person asked me, I'd say no and put you in time out. Sometimes I pay for the tickets, but that's if I know the person and I'm supporting their enterprises. | |
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you'd comp my ass right? | |
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the business is tricky like Katt said, i have comped dj's ad as a dj have been comped but the average cat looking for free shit, ummm nahhhhhhhhhh
Most definitely!
And let me re-phrase that, if the band is not paying for ads and they expect or ask for publicizing their event on your station, then yes, I would EXPECT tickets. | |
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Media/press pass? There's ways around. | |
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right, i've had to do that and have gotten vip passes, Just as I have done for others at labels and promo people when I was dj'ing somewhere. | |
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