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LAGER DEFENSIVE.

Our preference would be to have a buy out for 6 people at £10 a head rather than to have hot meals provided in venues. If you’d usually provide catering rather than buy out please contact me on the details below and we’ll discuss in advance.

Dressing Room Rider

- 2 Bottles of Good Quality Red Wine
- 16 Cans or Bottles of Good Quality Ale (i.e Timothy Taylor Landlord, Old Speckled Hen or something locally brewed we are open to ideas. Please no shit bitter like Tetley’s or John Smiths and nobody drinks lager in the band or the crew)
- 12 Cans of Diet Coke
- 6 Cans of Lemonade
- 2 Cartons of Fresh Orange Juice
- 16 Bottles of Still Water
- Fresh Fruit (Apples, Bananas, Red Grapes)
- 3 French Sticks or Sufficient Fresh Bread
- 1 Small Container of Lurpak Butter
- Fresh Deli Meat (Chorizo, Parma Ham, Salami)
- Cheeses (Parmesan, A Ball of Mozarella, Mature Cheddar)
- 1 Tub of Hummus
- Salad (Should include – Italian Mixed Salad, Spinach Leaves, Cherry Tomatoes, Carrot Sticks)
- 12 Bags of Selected Crisps

Please make sure the quantities of food bought are sufficient to feed 6 people.

To be made available to the band and crew at load-in…

* Tea and coffee
* Good quality biscuits (Please use your imagination, not rich tea)
* 1 bag of mini donuts
* 6 Postcards of local themes or historical interest

Right, this one might be old. But it is new to me. I like this. This guy can send us a rider any day he likes – as long as we don’t have to actually, you know, act on it. I present you, Iggy Pop’s rider and backline requirements (via The Smoking Gun).

Rider requests! We love hate ‘em! This one was for a 3-piece band playing a 150-capacity venue:

Hospitality Rider

Sandwiches, coffee, tea, juice and fruits, to be served at the Artist’s get in and again at night.

Unless otherwise is agreed in contract the following must be made available at the artists discretion:

48 x bottles or cans of Premium Lager (Hansa, Stella Artois, Tuborg, Heineken, Grolch, Amstel etc).
2 x bottles of proper, quality Red Wine (i.e. Rioja, Chanti, Vapoloichella, Perequita).
6 x glass bottles of cold soda, various brands.
24 x 0,5l bottles of cold still water.
12 x bottles/boxes of cold sparkling water with and without flavor.
Various snacks; chocolate, biscuits, fruits, vegetables etc.
3 x lottery tickets (ex scrape and win)
1 demo tape from a local artist
7 sweet easy going girls with a settled opinion about their destiny.
Fresh newspapers and some interesting magazines with various content.