Playing gigs at the Olympics is a rip off

Very simply the Olympic organisers said in in a leaked letter that bands and musicians would be paid £50 an hour for the pleasure of “creating a fantastic and memorable experience for our spectators”. My letter in the Guardian sums it up that musicians are being ripped of yet again. Perhaps the Chief Executive  of  the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) would like to have worked for nothing to become a memorable experience for their spectators. The letter of the 4th July to the Guardian sums it up.

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