Legality of house shows, what do?

[Joe Gress]

When was the last time you sat down and watched an entire feature length "adult film"?

When you're bored enough and the plot is well...



...semi-interesting I guess. Some are like soap operas where everyone does everyone, but some are great scify adventures that grab your interest at the central love triangle between the 44DD woman, the 10in shlonged he man with the euro accent and long golden hair that is more real than the woman's, and the tentacle rape beast who always seems to be down on his luck and misunderstood. Everyone just treats him as a piece of meat (mmmmm sushi), but doesn't understand his great need to fill the hole called love in his heart and the hearts of his 21 tentacles. HE HAS FEELINGS TOO!!!

[Chankgeez]

The way you describe it, that does sound pretty entertaining.

[whiskey_face]

Had one of my best nights of sex ever at a basement show once. Girl was horny, I was loaded drunk, back room had a shower. Kept thinking for the first five minutes that someone will come in and it'll all be ruined, but we kept going, all fueled by alcohol and crazy loud ass shitty emo core band that I only went to because the other party I was at was boring and my friend suggested his friends band.

No idea if that band is still together (can't remember their name anyways), but I will always remember that night. And the shower.

wowzers, dude...

both of your avatars made that gold. FYI

[AxAxSxS]

So the out come is....
Shut the fuck down.

He can have bands over to "practice" but cant remotely appear to have anything money involved going on.
It's all a bit depressing and rediculous. I feel like someone should have been challenged to race the K12 to resolve this. It just all seems like the plot to a bad 80's movie. Some shows are getting moved to more legit venues, some are just cancelled. Very lame.

[D.o.S.]

So have bands come over to "practice."

"For free."

[Joe Gress]

So have bands come over to "practice."

"For free."

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[12XU2A3X3]

dunno if thise has been posted yet but, lol http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... ernet.html

[AxAxSxS]

dunno if thise has been posted yet but, lol http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... ernet.html

Taxdollars at work.

[whiskey_face]

ATHF said it best. "boston sucks"

[AxAxSxS]

that article sounds very similar to whats going on here on the left coast. I THOUGHT WE WERE BETTER.
Sounds like shows will go on, just not there. It will loose a little luster for it.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

In Finland the house show thing isn't anyway near as big as in the States so I definitely come from a little different scenario BUT...

Private parties. Nothing beats good private parties. Nobody enters without an invitation even to a bachelor party or a local band scene birthday party jams, You know. The invitation has to come from (or look like coming from) a private network of like minded people executing their right to assemble and raise hell. And still not everybody at private parties are exactly friends of the organiser, are they? There are avecs, see, and the interested friends' friends that almost missed the occasion but made it after all, and the bad girls who go anywhere.

Church is not a good move, an association for free exchange of music or something like that might perhaps work better.

At least in FInland it doesn't really cost You much to start a non-profit association that can collect tax-exempt fees (even in the tax-crazy Finland) from the members as long as it's used on what ever the association is promoting and offering for its members. Sure there is probably stuff to learn about legislation around that but who knows, it might be worth reading all that through and think about it.

Good private parties can be also organised at restaurants, mansions for rent, and warehouses if the money is used openly in a non-profit way. Just keep the checks safe in an orderly manner for the needed time afterwards should authorities be interested to check about the possible profits.

I've organised a few such parties for a Finnish pagan association, when I was a for example. I rented a nice historical house with the association monies, sent invitations (+avec), gave the authorities all the information they wanted, did all the needed paper work too, and welcomed the police to the outer hall way for a word when they showed at the door, showed them around a bit and all was dandy for them. The neighbors were alarmed by the torches, music, and stuff going on outside the house in animal costumes and suits but that was it.

[D.o.S.]

dunno if thise has been posted yet but, lol http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... ernet.html

But, again, the problem is that the people running that shit aren't doing it smartly.

[the_carl]

nvm

[D.o.S.]

Holy cockroach dude have you ever been to a house show?

[Bassus Sanguinis]

In Finland the house show thing isn't anyway near as big as in the States so I definitely come from a little different scenario BUT...

Private parties. Nothing beats good private parties. Nobody enters without an invitation even to a bachelor party or a local band scene birthday party jams, You know. The invitation has to come from (or look like coming from) a private network of like minded people executing their right to assemble and raise hell. And still not everybody at private parties are exactly friends of the organiser, are they? There are avecs, see, and the interested friends' friends that almost missed the occasion but made it after all, and the bad girls who go anywhere.

Church is not a good move, an association for free exchange of music or something like that might perhaps work better.

At least in FInland it doesn't really cost You much to start a non-profit association that can collect tax-exempt fees (even in the tax-crazy Finland) from the members as long as it's used on what ever the association is promoting and offering for its members. Sure there is probably stuff to learn about legislation around that but who knows, it might be worth reading all that through and think about it.

Good private parties can be also organised at restaurants, mansions for rent, and warehouses if the money is used openly in a non-profit way. Just keep the checks safe in an orderly manner for the needed time afterwards should authorities be interested to check about the possible profits.

I've organised a few such parties for a Finnish pagan association, when I was a for example. I rented a nice historical house with the association monies, sent invitations (+avec), gave the authorities all the information they wanted, did all the needed paper work too, and welcomed the police to the outer hall way for a word when they showed at the door, showed them around a bit and all was dandy for them. The neighbors were alarmed by the torches, music, and stuff going on outside the house in animal costumes and suits but that was it.

....yeah i totes want to come to finland at some point XD

Welcome, old fuzzbro, anytime.