Join the Future of A FAILED MUSIC INDUSTRY
TURN DOWN THE GAS
The system is broken. This forest is getting so expensive now. And the prices are going up.
The price of wood is going through the trees.
In recognition and celebration of thousands of other artists who have had the ingenuity and creativity to navigate a broken system on their own terms, we’re launching our GoFundTrees campaign. This will help fund upcoming touring for new album HARD TIMES FURIOUS DANCING. We will be selling our souls as well as the contents of the bottom of the ghillie suit drawer, launching furious dancing parties in Epping Forest and presenting online album previews by way of online HIIT sessions. Plus some other woodland exotica. It will be fun. It will be furious. There will be dancing.
If you’re able to help in any way, we will be eternally grateful.
WHO’S GONNA START THIS DANCE?
GOFUNDTREEs FUNDRAISING DRIVE
Pledge your support over at the Snapped Ankles kickstarter to enable them to bring the Forest Rayve to you. Exclusive memorabilia, signed items and unique access.
Support Snapped Ankles and buy the band’s records directly from Bandcamp, including a pre-order of Hard Times Furious Dancing, out 28th March 2025.
Come to a Forest Rayve in a city near you soon.
WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
The system is broken. The band is singing their song in a venue that is being measured up for ‘executive developments’, playing to an audience that’s financially strained, all while acknowledging that the real beneficiaries of this system are not the performers or their listeners, but the large corporations and their shareholders.
HOW WE GONNA PAY THE RENT?
The cost of touring, as with many things during a global cost of living crisis, has gone through the roof. Tour vans, fuel, food and hotels continue to rise, and that’s before you get into the added bonus of post-Brexit red tape. Add the cost of yearly carnets and visas for band and crew, and the one part of the music industry that was supposed to sustain an artist becomes distinctly unsustainable.
THE COST OF A TOURING BAND
Sometimes it’s hard to make sense of the forest when you’re in the trees, so for full transparency, here’s the working version of the Snapped Ankles March 2025 tour budget. It’s a trail of unpredictable costs, escalating on-the-road prices and really boring things like contingency budgets, tour cancellation insurance, booking percentages and the monthly cost of MasterTree tm - the only online tour management app for a self respecting hard touring Woodwose.
This is for both legs of our tour this year, first in march around the UK, and the much more eyewatering budget for Europe in April.
Costs include:
ACCOMMODATION
TRANSPORT
REHEARSALS
TOURING CREW
Contact Us
If you’d like to know more about anything, offer to host a forest rayve, sell us equity in the new world order or just share some polemic, please drop us a line. We can’t wait to hear from you!