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The valley needs more mid-sized rooms, and the buildings already exist

Between the two hundred capacity bars and the stadium shows there is almost nothing, and the gap is where careers usually grow.

The valley needs more mid-sized rooms, and the buildings already exist
Industry | GigHub News

An act that outgrows a bar in Kathmandu has nowhere obvious to go next, and it is not because the rooms do not exist.

It is the kind of change that shows up in the paperwork long before it shows up in the room. Diaries, invoices and load-in sheets all moved first, and the audience only started noticing about a month later.

Between the two hundred capacity bars and the stadium shows there is almost nothing, and the gap is where careers usually grow.

Everyone we spoke to described the same sequence in a slightly different order, which is usually the sign that something real is happening rather than one loud person having a good season.

The detail worth holding on to is small. Give the people doing the work twenty minutes they did not have before, and almost every other complaint on the list quietly disappears.

What it means for the rooms

None of this is settled. The next two months will decide whether it holds through a full season or turns out to have been one unusually good run of weekends.

If you are working in a room that has solved any part of this, we would like to hear about it. The desk is open, and the best reporting we do still starts with somebody sending us a load-in sheet.

Rabin Gurung

Industry Reporter

Follows ticketing, licensing and the money. Former promoter, which explains the questions.

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