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Marillion haben eine Crowdfunding Kampagne gestartet und bitten Fans um die Finanzierung einer Tournee Versicherung für ihre anstehende UK Tour im Herbst 2021.
Das Geld wird auf Treuhandkonto eingezahlt und jeder Fan bekommt dafür etwas zurück, ungeachtet dessen, ob das Geld verwendet werden muss.
Im UK sind lediglich einzelne “Events” versichert, jedoch keine Tourneen. Da Marillion bereits 150.000 britische Pfund in die Tour investiert haben, können sie sich einen finanziellen Verlust nicht leisten. Sobald ein Covid Fall während einer Tournee auftritt, muss der Künstler die Verluste zahlen (gebuchte Hallen etc.).
Aus “Forbes”:
Live music is facing a Covid confidence crisis. No insurance companies will allow touring acts to take out a policy that will cover them for cancellations due to the pandemic. What is termed ‘communicable disease cover’ excludes coronavirus and its variants. That means acts, all of whom rely heavily on the income from live, have to take a huge gamble going on the road because if any one of the band or crew tests positive for Covid the whole operation slams to a halt and they can lose staggering sums of money.
There are some measures in place to help, but they only go so far. In the UK, for example, there is a new government-backed insurance scheme that comes with a £750 million ($1 billion) budget to cover cancellation costs if government Covid measures (what are termed UK Civil Authority restrictions) mean an event, such as a music festival, cannot legally take place. The most obvious example is if an area, or even the entire country, goes into new lockdown restrictions and public gatherings are banned.
The UK government’s Live Events Reinsurance Scheme offers a lifeline to events but not to individual touring acts. This is what is underpinning the move by Marillion here before they set off on their 10-date The Light At The End Of The Tunnel tour of the UK in November.
The band says they have already made an upfront investment of £150,000 ($204,000) in the tour and could risk losing it all – and more – if even one member of the band or their crew tests positive for Covid. “The tour would be cancelled, but the group would have to honour payments for lighting, trucks, tour buses and crew,” they say on their website. “This would be on top of not receiving any money from any remaining gigs that had not been played.”
Their solution is to set up a scheme called Lightsavers where fan donations can provide a financial buffer. “We’re asking our fans to pledge money that will be held in escrow and if it all goes Covid free it will be returned to them at the end of the tour,” explains Lucy Jordache, the band’s manager, on the blog about it. “But if we do have to cancel, then their money will be used to pay the band’s unavoidable expenses.”
All fans who donate, regardless of if the money is needed or not by the band, will receive rewards determined by the size of their financial pledge, such as having their names appear in the tour programme or being given a download of a show from the tour. There are a number of pledge tiers, ranging from £25 ($34) to £250 ($340), with the top two tiers already sold out.
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