Making a playlist for a pub/restaurant help

#1

Yo, have any of you ever made a playlist up for a pub or a restaurant and if so what were you charging for your trouble?!

Asking for a friend.

#2

Charge would be beers. I love making playlists/forcing my music choices on people. I also love beers.

#3

Used to do this for a living (seriously). Do they want it updated in the future?

#4

Just sell them a Throbbing Gristle album

#5

i dunno, i am genuinely asking for a friend. :slight_smile:
I know a couple of folk who do this in glasgow but can’t get a hold of them and my pal is meeting the restaurant folk in a couple of hours, he think they want a playlist that’ll last approx 3 to 4 hours but isn’t sure what to charge.

He incidentally has impeccable taste in music.

#6

The rat on repeat forever

#7

A lot of pubs just use Spotify for that sort of thing, just stick in the genre and let Spotify do the rest. Me, I DJ in pubs and bars so I have no idea, sorry.

#8

and then make the playlist.

#9

That won’t be long enough surely. The staff wont want to hear the same song at the same time every night. Unless its for some specific night?

#10

I think they probably want him to make up a good few of these, see how they get on and maybe put together some more.

#11

Always ever just used Spotify and picked playlists like “summer gold” or “90s bangers” or “easy Sunday” or whatever tbh. Cba with the hassle.

(Family owns hotel and a pub)

#12

The glasgow hipsters wouldn’t stand for that… if they ever found out.

#13

spotify://playlist/search.xml?art+school+beards+yummy

#14

Well assuming it will take a couple of hours or so to assemble and they enjoy doing it, I’d probably settle for a free feed with a couple of drinks for 2, for every one.

If they don’t enjoy it, I probably wouldn’t do it.

Edit @Lo-Pan

#15

£100-200 in Glasgow I imagine for one playlist. If they want like quarterly updates to it I’d bump it up to 400

#16

cheers prof

#17

Dream job

#18

Srs? I could/would do this with relish!!

#19

Imagine half the places would get back to you and say stuff like ‘Can you put some ed sheeran on the next one?’ though

#20

Yeah - would be great. One of the part time lecturers at my college used to offer it as a service and I remember thinking “No way would people pay for that!”. Can’t for the life of me remember his name, but I remember spotting him in an article years after I graduated about people who curate music for businesses. Him and his partner had done a set of playlists for a clothes shop. No idea what he’d charge though.