Midway Cafe

All Bands
Playing the Midway Cafe
in the Near Future
Any Town, MA 02130

Dear Bands,
As of today, until further review, The Midway Café’s official stance on posting flyers is this: We do not in any way endorse or encourage the posting of bills / posters / flyers anywhere in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  Any posting of bills with “Midway Café are not sanctioned, nor deemed necessary, by the Midway Cafe.


The Midway Café’s promotion has moved to a digital set up. Online marketing and social media outlets such as Midway Café on facebook http://www.myspace.com/midwaycafe and www.midwaycafe.com are to be the focus of promotion for your shows.


Why are we making such move? Fines. Hefty fines. Fines that we accept no responsibility for. Fines that will be charged to any band or promoter cited by law enforcement. Fines that will keep your band from being booked at the Midway Fines that could pay for your space rental for a month. Fines that could buy a nice guitar. Fines that could pay rent at your apartment.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts deems your show flyers as graffiti. That stinks. There’s some beautiful art being created on your flyers! Jamaica Plain has its own strict subset of these laws. Your community does, too (We’re looking at you, Allston!). Recent citations are not less than $300 per violation. If you put up two of the same flyer in the same neighborhood, that equals $600. Law enforcement must stop there, right? No. Fines are per instance. Imagine having to pay $1500 for 5 flyers! That, sadly, could be you.


What can you do? Reach out to us we’ll give you a digital workflow to promote your show. It works. Send us a .jpg of that flyer, We’ll get it on our web properties. Get us 4-6 nice 11x17 flyers to hang up on our walls, they are pretty! Color or black and white. No reason to print 1000 of these. Just a couple for us and one for your practice space wall. Make a hundred or so 1/4 page flyers. I can help you set that up and you’ll know how for life! Spark a conversation, shake a hand, get a phone number and hand them one of these little guys. Making friends is awesome. Making enemies of city officials and venues is not quite as awesome (not awesome at all).

Thanks
Jay and David Balerna
Midway Café
3496 Washington St
JP, MA 02130
617-524-9038

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