Live Show Thoughts - 2022 (Patreon)

Hello CheapSkates, 

To those of you attended Digitiser Liver 2.0 last weekend, you may have noticed a certain "CheapShow Takeover" segment during the usual Biffo insanity. It was a good way to get a "cheapshow live" out of systems for 10 mins or so.

But it gave us a thirst for more... So i want to ask you all a question - and hopefully preempt a few suggestions and further questions!

We want to do one BIG show, similar to Digitiser Live because as cosy as the Bill Murray pub was, there were limitations - audience since is limited and stage space. T

So after talking with Biffo, we could do a show at The Harrow Arts Centre (NW London) and with a bit of maths figured we'd only have to sell 70 tickets at £20 to pay for the hire itself.

So, we worry that's too costly (as it's cheapshow and all that) and that Harrow isn't the easiest place to get to (depending on how you need to travel in).

That's not the only venue on the list, but it WOULD be a London based show.

This is because the further we travel from London for a venue, the costs at our end soar (travel, accom etc) which means looking for smaller venues or higher ticket costs.

There is also the issue that although we do have a large global audience, on a smaller town for town scale, we honestly don't think we could pull a big enough crowd. This is why we don't tend to do festivals or comedy fests as what we do would not float for a general audience. This based on past experience (like our Liverpool Comedy Fest appearance, MCM comic cons and the Latitude show which both were a bit of a set back for us). Also this means our guests would need to travel too and that might put them off for getting involved. This is also why a tour for us is off the table unless we got proper representation or a much larger audience across the UK :D

SO here's the thing - if we did another live show in LONDON, Patreon lovelies would get early access to tickets AND to a discount too (maybe £15). SO hopefully that is a good starting point.

We also are very aware that it is costly for people to travel in from out of London so if we can figure it out, we could do a paid online live stream of the show for people to watch online (as long as that doesn't put people off actually coming!) That way, people aren't completely being left out. If we do that, we may sell physical tickets first to make sure its worth getting a big venue (id hate to do that and then have an empty room!!) and then talk about an online option... if they/we can technically arrange it.

As for when? Dunno, but it would be 2022 - maybe for ep 300 (which would put it about Sept 2022) but maybe we can do it before the summer next year - but give people enough time to make plans and save money.

The bottom line is, if we did a BIG CheapShow live event, you know we'd go all out and do something as special as we can! So hopefully that's enough of a lure!

Comments below would be awesome, but i would love to know what you lot think/would like.

Here's hoping, as we love doing CS live!

xxx

PG