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Basically the live gigs "industry" is not much remunerative all in all for bands with no big organization behind (no matter how good is the label they're on). I organized (along with some friends) a little gig for Mono back in the days, and even if the ticket was just something like 5 euros some people said "uh, 5 euros for a band that I don't even know is too much" and went on buying beers for 5 euros each on the upper floor's bar...here it goes like this: you are somehow famous (blogosphere talk, vids on tv, some vip says "these guys are cool", all the people who like that vip will automatically like that band etc etc), people come to the concerts. you are an amazing not well known band there are not many chances a "curious" audience will show up. When 65dos played here in italy, in their one and only tour over here till now, there were like 40 people in the audience in a nice club I used to go to. And I brought there like 12 of them who had no idea on who these guys were.