A newspaper made for one night — the room, the date, the set, the writing. Every spread opens into a wall poster with real text on the back. Yours is a voice that has always arrived with a scene attached — Olympia, Vexx, CC Dust, CCFX, then Stage of Love — and newsprint is the format built to carry that: lyrics at poster scale, the history in the writing on the back. Run capped and numbered; when it sells out it is gone forever.
Straight, because the numbers below are small and we would rather you saw why. 4 September is a Night School label night at EartH — you are one of several names on the bill, not the headline. So we do not print for the whole room. Our rule of thumb on a shared bill is 10% of the capacity — 68 copies at EartH. Every figure on this page runs off that one number, and it is the first thing you should change if we have it wrong.
Wide Open pays for everything — design, print, shipping. Costs recoup off the top, then the net splits 60/40 in the artist's favor. You write no checks and carry zero risk. ~$900 limited edition + ~$1,300 open edition. On one night at this size this is the structure we would honestly recommend — the downside is entirely ours.
You cover production at cost — ~$1,650 upfront across both editions (print ~$650 + our design & production fee, $500 flat per edition) — and keep everything else. Baseline is a 68-copy limited at $30 plus a 150-copy open edition at $20. It edges out Structure 1 at these settings, but it is you carrying the risk on a night you are not headlining — worth saying out loud.
Every number is a lever — drag them and the night recalculates. EartH Theatre holds 680. On a shared bill we print 10% of the room — 68 copies. That is our standing rule of thumb, not a guess about you. Tell us it is wrong and the whole page moves.
EartH runs two rooms — the 680-cap Theatre and the 1,200-cap Hall. We have modelled the Theatre; if Night School has taken the Hall, every number here goes up.
Methodology per our standard model: hall fee on venue sales · 5% shrinkage & CC on venue gross · print costed on volume tiers · excludes sales tax.
The second paper: not numbered, not capped to the room, lower ticket, bigger run. Everyone who wants one gets one. Still never reprinted.
The open edition is the volume play: it prices lower and reaches everyone in the room. The limited is the scarcity play. Most runs carry both — the limited sells out early at the table, the open is what is left to sell once it is gone.
The artist newspaper has half a century of collector history — priced like art, not merch.