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Tim Burgess and Peter Hook criticise venues that take a cut of merch sales

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The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess and former New Order member Peter Hook have spoken out about venues that take an unfair cut of merch sales, with Burgess saying “​​the whole system needs addressing”.On Thursday (December 9), Burgess took to Twitter to pay “big respect to those venues that don’t take a percentage of a band’s merch sales”.“This isn’t about The Charlatans,” he explained. “It’s about those bands who need merch income to survive.

Some places take 25%. A quarter of the full selling price. Vinyl doesn’t even have that mark up to begin with.”Big respect to those venues that don’t take a percentage of a band’s merch sales.

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