Short version:
If you go to Bandcamp.com and look for ‘leftofthedialfestival’ you’ll find an overview of all Bandcamp accounts of artist that have played or will play Left of the Dial.
Very (very) long version:
Lately, we’ve started to feel more and more uncomfortable using Spotify as a tool to promote the Left of the Dial lineup. Lots of people use Spotify and it’s an easy way to reach a lot of people, but we can’t help but feel that we’re pointing our ticketholders to a platform that’s basically ripping off artists by paying them roughly €0.004 per stream, while the founder of Spotify has an estimated net worth of $4.8 billion.
We fully understand that companies need money to set up a service. It’s pretty much the same with Left of the Dial, we can’t give ALL the money from ticket sales directly to the artists, we also have to pay for a lot of other stuff (and people!) to make the festival happen.
We do try however to spend the money you spend on tickets wisely, and we really make an effort to NOT buy products or services from questionable multinationals.
Which, in all honesty, is close to impossible. Just look at which platform you’re reading this on. We may not have spent any money on this post, but we all know very well that everybody’s paying with their data when using social media.
But back to the music.
We felt that Bandcamp has a much fairer business model for artists, so we wanted to set up an account that would link directly to the artists. Divided in neat different categories, in chronological order of the Left of the Dial editions. Not to make any money of course, purely for promotional reasons.
It turned out to be impossible. So, what we created a fan-account, and we followed every artist who ever played Left of the Dial. Or at least, every artist we could find. We started at 2018, and worked our way back to the current lineup. We may have missed someone, and when we’ll add them now, they will appear on top of the list, which will make it very confusing, but hey, we’re doing the best we can.
To cut a long story short, we hope you go to Bandcamp and support the Left of the Dial artists. Bandcamp’s share is only 15% on digital items, so if you spend a couple of euros on some tracks today, you’re basically buying your favourite artist a beer tonight.
Big love,
The strugglers of Left of the Dial
PS: Don’t worry Spotify lovers, despite us being a bit on the fence about the whole platform, we’ll still keep on adding new tracks to all our Spotify playlists!
