Xmas show bill
Over £78k on acts
The cost of the acts that performed at Perth’s Christmas Lights switch-on has been revealed.
More than £176,000 was spent on the day. The top earners at the event were Alesha Dixon and The Hunna, who along with ice sculptures and six street performers were booked as a packaged deal by PKC for £43,000.
The cost of the acts that performed at Perth’s Christmas Lights switchon has been revealed.
Over £176,000 was spent on the whole event, and a Freedom of Information request disclosed the cost of almost 30 acts was £78,400.
The top earners at the event, part of the Winter Festival which returned a total of £1.8m to the local economy, were Alesha Dixon and The Hunna who, along with ice sculptures and six street performers, were booked as a packaged deal by PKC for £43,000.
Irish pop stars Brian McFadden and Keith Duffy, better known as Boyzlife, earned £9000 for their services, while iconic rock group Mud were paid £5000.
The main acts cost the local authority a total of £70,200, with East 17 costing £4100, Princess Showtime and presenter/dancers priced at £3,000 and Midnight Soul Sister coming in at £2750.
Also on the bill were Mark Summers as Elvis at £1850, Partypalz at £1800, The Village People Experience Tribute Band at £1500, Ice Queens and Victorian Choir - Same Difference at £1200 and Lionel Vinyl at £750.
The celebrations also featured 15 acts who were paid £550 or less, totalling £4450, in what was the biggest switch-on yet.
Perth and Kinross Council estimated the all-day event, held on November 18, attracted upwards of 80,000 people to the Fair City.
In the past, the local authority has hired the likes of Red Hot Chili Pipers, Mark Wright, Peter Andre, Billy Ocean, Showaddywaddy and Professor Green for the evergrowing festival.
The annual Winter Festival, which ran from Hallowe’en until the Norie-Miller light nights ending on Valentine’s Day, is believed to have drawn in around 117,000 people to Perth city centre and has been praised by a number of the city’s businesses.