This is the kind of occasion where Lan Kwai Fong needs to step in. As a former member of the Lianwan Daily, she was once a cadre within the system and is quite familiar with the routines of the system.
It would be very appropriate for her to step forward while Liang Liang accompanied her.
While watching the performance, these leaders asked Liang Liang many questions.
Taking this opportunity, Liang Liang talked about his big guitar project.
His plan is to create a huge guitar market in Lianwan and its subordinate counties and cities in the future, and to sell it nationwide as well as export it to foreign countries.
After hearing Liang Liang's description, the head of the brokerage department was both dumbfounded and pleasantly surprised.
They were dumbfounded because they were unaware of the guitar industry and were unprepared for something that could be made into a musical instrument to become an industry.
The exciting thing is that once this industry is established, it can also create a leading enterprise that drives a large number of downstream industrial chains.
They decided to report the matter to the city government and have the project's feasibility assessed.
Liang Liang didn't have high hopes for the city's support for this project. After all, it was an unfamiliar field for them, and it wasn't a product that people needed in their daily lives, so they might not be very supportive.
Once the private sector achieves its own scale, the government will naturally provide support.
Liang Liang didn't take the government's attitude towards the guitar project very seriously, but he listened carefully to the opinions of these leaders regarding the music festival.
After seeing that most of the programs performed at the music festival were positive and uplifting, the leader in charge of culture was very pleased. He suggested that more events of this type and content should be held in the future, as this would greatly benefit the cultural life of citizens and enhance people's pioneering spirit.
Of course, if the music festival reaches a certain scale and reputation, the tourists it attracts can also bring huge economic benefits to Lianwan City.
The government will naturally support activities that benefit society.
This music festival can only be held once a year. Even with government support, how could it be held two or three times a year?
Isn't that a bit far-fetched?
Although some music festivals in later generations are divided into spring and autumn, Liang Liang did not intend to do that. That would make people lose interest and eventually lose vitality. It would be better to hold one festival a year. However, the scale can be expanded. Should we rent a stadium to hold the music festival next year?
Renting a stadium is expensive, but it can hold a lot of people, so you can't lose money no matter what.
Thanks to the participation of people from other places who came specifically to attend, the daytime sessions of the music festival were still fully booked even on days other than Sundays.
Even after the last day of the five-day music festival ended, many fans from other places continued to arrive.
Liang Liang was genuinely dumbfounded. This time, the fans who came from other provinces were no longer limited to those within the province.
The fans even came from as far away as Shandong and Hebei provinces.
In 1995, when even pagers were not common, how did they know that Lianwan City was holding a music festival?
He has never advertised on CCTV.
It's understandable if people within the province knew about this, but how did fans from coastal cities in Shandong Province find out?
Could it be related to Zhang Hongyan?
This guy came to Lianwan to pick up goods the day before the music festival started; he must have spread the news after returning to Linyi.
These fans had a very simple request: "We've come all this way, we can't leave empty-handed. We have to see the music festival in person, or you'll have to cover our travel expenses."
Did you hear that? They're even shamelessly denying it.
It was Liang Liang's duty to ensure that the fans who had traveled from afar could go home happily. After obtaining the consent of the bands participating in the music festival, he added two extra performances over two days, totaling four shows.
They had originally planned to add an extra show, but once they started, they couldn't stop and ended up performing four shows in a row, finally managing to send their fans who had come from afar home happily.
Of course, no one objected to the bands making money. Where else could they find such a good deal: a thousand yuan per performance?
There was also a little tidbit during the last show of the music festival.
Su Ennan traveled a long way from who-knows-where to return, and made it to the last event.
Liang Liang then had him go on stage last and sing "The Red Flag Fluttering".
After the song was finished, Su Ennan took out 50,000 yuan and bought the song.
He felt this song was exactly what he wanted to hear, and regardless of Liang Liang's wishes, he took the song anyway.
At 9 a.m. on June 25th, still in the courtyard of the music academy, Liang Liang settled the bills for the rock bands who had come to support the music festival.
There are a total of forty bands performing, twenty during the daytime and twenty during the nighttime, with each band performing once a day.
Including the two extra shows, each band performed seven shows.
Liang Liang paid them 1,000 yuan per performance, and each band received 7,000 yuan.
The finance staff of the shipping company set up two small tables in the courtyard, and two middle-aged accountants distributed money to the band members.
Once you call out the name of a band, you give them the money you've prepared in advance.
A total of 280,000 were issued.
The total revenue from music festival tickets over a week was around 450,000 yuan, plus 100,000 yuan in advertising sponsorships brought in by Han Chui.
After deducting the bands' appearance fees, taxes, advertising, security costs, and all other expenses, there was still a surplus of 150,000.
Although the amount of money wasn't much, at least it was a good start.
Whether they were local bands or bands from out of town, everyone was having a great time. They not only made money and made friends, but also reached a verbal agreement with Liang Liang to purchase his songs.
As long as they have a piece of music that Liang Liang approves of, Liang Liang will offer between one thousand and five thousand to buy their music.
Of course, it has to meet his requirements; he won't accept any random or nonsensical songs.
The purpose of this is to motivate these bands to create new music and earn more income.
This is the stated purpose; the hidden purpose is to force them to create music with positive energy and positivity.
When everyone who plays rock music gets used to this routine, then it won't be long before rock music becomes mainstream.
These out-of-town bands are extremely interested in returning to the Haiyun Music Festival next year.
Liang Liang plans to move next year's Haiyun Music Festival to around May Day, and future music festivals will be held around this time.
With the May Day holiday, there will definitely be more people going to music festivals.
After seeing off the out-of-town band, Liang Liang watched the music festival video he had hired, which had been taken by the photographer.
These videos will be edited and processed in the future, and Haiyun Audio-Visual Company will publish these videos on videotape and CD.
With the music festival over, it's time for Mayday to fly away.
These days, Liang Liang has already selected the album tracks for them.
Because he didn't have time, he simply used the lyrics of the songs that had been covered, and wrote lyrics for a few that hadn't been covered, but he still didn't have time to write lyrics for the others.
For those songs without lyrics, it will be a hassle for the musicians at Jinmeng Company to write the lyrics.
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