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FWIW - I easily drop a grand per year on live theatre, or I used to, and I'd like to keep spending that money on live theatre productions, however they're delivered to me.

I can't be the only guy who thinks like that - if someone was to say to me that I can't go to live theatre for at least a year but give us that grand and you can watch, say, a dozen big productions streamed live and as many smaller productions as you like for a year then I'd hand over my money today.

I may be at the extreme end of the spectrum here as I do love theatre but again, I can't be the only one.

Very difficult to judge how anything plays out over the next year or two but as a big theatre goer myself and a member of the two biggest theatres in Birmingham, I know how screwed they are for cash now and for the very forseeable.

Somehow, they've got to get people spending money on theatre again but as pointed out, the average theatre goer is in their 50s which isn't a great age for taking C19 risks in any crowded venue.

I wonder whether theatre could not only be helped by tech like this but actually transformed by it - the dynamics of TV/film/music/theatre are all very different of course but surely the most unleveraged of all of those (because of theatre size restrictions) is theatre.

You can sell millions of "tickets" for TV/Film/music easily but you can't do it for live theatre.

What if you put 2-3 acting "greats" into a play together for a one night only live performance that everyone can watch for, say, £20? Those acting greats will be expensive but if your box office is 1m tickets x £20 then that'll raise the eyebrows of many producers in this game for sure.

That would be something genuinely new in the entertainment space IMO and it could take off as the new "thing", ironically being led by tech-adopting middle aged people perhaps :)

Morning - this was always an interesting play but as an ex very regular theatre and gig attendee myself, this is all the more interesting in the Covid 19 age ...

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It was only ever a matter of time until someone cleaned her out at the cash-in-bank only price.

LOL

Give the guy his dues - he likes to keep other people's money very clean.

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Your T&T call but GL :)

@ Kabaa - yes, banking 5-6x baggers is obviously where I've been going wrong all these years :)

Afternoon.

Nobody could/should tell you what to do with your own money but I can guarantee you that most seasoned traders/investors will be laughing their heads off at the suggestion that you'd willingly ride your 2p investment all the way back down to 4p again from 12p - if you're not in the game to bank 5-6x baggers then WTF are you doing?

The last post like this I recall replying to was a young kid who'd 8x bagged UKOG at 8p and was sitting on £50k of tax-free profit in his ISA - his girly was begging him to bank the rest so they could buy a house - that topped out at the de rigeur P&D £400m+ mcap and is currently worth tuppence; I don't know what he did in the end but I hope he listened to his girly ...

Hey - do you have specifics?

Aye up Hydro :)

I know - I just caught it on the sidebar - glad(??!!) to see I'm still a topic of conversation n years later lol

Hope all is well with you - keep an eye on the Rare Earths play mate ..........

Great rise/win - GL all ;) ;)

And therefore .........

This is stellar news for a minnow like MKA.

The party is over was the shout.

That was *minus* $37 per barrel :)

WTI oil back at +1c per barrel following yesterday's futures dump but it's still a hefty leading indicator IMO.

Batten hatches etc - much, much more to come IMO.

MMs will use anything and everything to dick PIs about so who knows but I would suggest that the oil price over the next month or so is the real indicator. A flash crash like this can be indicative of a futures contract expiry dump and nothing else other than people aren't exactly queuing up to buy oil (or anything else for that matter, other than freezers and Xbox's) right now.

Personally, I wouldn't touch indices with a bloody bargepole for the next 12-18 months regardless.

Oh and as an aside - factor in a LOT more people semi/permanently working from home from now on and the impact that could have on long-term oil usage etc. I'm a software developer so it's dead easy for me to work from home. We have 70 developers in our pan-European software house and permanent home working is being talked about openly right now off the back of and extending past any end to this C19 lockdown ...

Spot-on.

Ratchet down your expectations of, er, anything really over the next 3-5 years and you'll be fine.

I think the "reason" is BS TBH but I'll gladly accept £50 in cash from my local station to fill up tomorrow :)

Hey :)

I haven't been posting because I'm virtually out of the game as of last Xmas.

This is the big one IMO peeps, 3-5 years to reshape the world as we knew it - Brexit/Basel3 (exact same date as Brexit ...) all part of the prep so "we" can stay afloat in our dinghy whilst others drown in their ships.

Cash/mattress obligatory, canned goods recommended :)

Thank gawd for all that 2019 gold buying on the back of Basel 3 eh?

Plenty more sh*t to come in 2020 IMO - they've been pumping this one up for a decade so it's a looooooong way down again ...

/popcorn