Introducing One City Per Second

Touring is expensive. You need to put fuel in your car, plane tickets are not cheap, accommodation is expensive and traveling can be long and uncomfortable.

The venues you play in are businesses and therefore need to make a profit when they book a show. Tour managers and booking agents need to pay their bills as well, so a large portion of the money you pay for a concert ticket goes towards paying for accommodation, fuel, venues, tour managers and booking agents and very little really ends up in the musician’s pocket. Unless you’re U2 of course!

Setting up a tour can be really complicated as you need to find venues to play in on the way, and those venues need to be available on the dates you need to fill up your schedule. Some venues will pay a guaranteed minimum fee (if they think you can draw a large enough crowd) others will provide you a percentage of tickets, some won’t pay a cent. Some local promoters/venues will provide accommodation and catering, others don’t provide anything. So if the turn out is bad, you can lose a fair amount of money on the road paying for gas and accommodation.

We’re not saying that music venue owners, tour managers and booking agencies are to blame for this, but if we can remove them from the equation, and book shows directly with our fans, and fund them in advance to remove some of the risk, then we can reduce costs and organize things more efficiently.

This is why we set up One City Per Second. It’s a concert funding platform. We set up a funding campaign for a specific city based on the costs of getting there and any other fees related to booking a venue, hiring equipment, etc… Then we fix a date and deadline for funding the concert. People can fund the concert in at different levels (just by paying for a ticket, or by combining merchadise) and if we reach the target, we jump in the car, plane, train and play the gig and bring all the merch with us.

So if you’re interested in seeing us play live, just contact us and we’ll set up a funding campaign for your city. 

We’ve also launched a t-shirt funding campaign as well. You can read more about that here.

We hope to see you soon!

Cheers,

Uniform Motion