Wide Open — Prepared for Eagles of Death Metal · November 2026 · Interactive budget, all levers yours

Wide Open News­papers × Eagles of Death Metal

Limited-edition newspaper prints for the Death By Sexy 20th-anniversary tour · one edition per night · never reprinted · never discounted
01 — The idea, simply

Two ways to do this

Product A — Limited edition, per night

A unique newspaper for each date — the city, the night, the setlist, the writing. Run sized to the room; when a night sells out, that edition is gone forever. Scarcity is real and dated, so it carries a higher price point than a poster.

Product B — Open tour edition

One design for the whole Death By Sexy run, sold at every stop, closed forever when the tour ends. Simpler, batch-printed to demand — no per-city collectible story, so it earns a lower price point.

Two ways to run the same shows: the dated per-night collectible, or the one accessible edition across the tour. Priced far enough apart that either earns its place at the table.

02 — Why Wide Open

We make culture physical

Wide Open is a creative direction and production house centered on the physicalization of culture — full-size newsprint publications where every spread opens into a wall poster, with real writing on the backs. Editorial art objects, not tour posters.

Our newspapers are stocked in bookstores across Paris, London, NYC and LA (Magculture, Yvon Lambert, Skylight, Quimby's); our World Cup series is live now at newspapers.wide-open.xyz. We design at tour pace — one architecture, a unique edition per night — with the band's team approving every page at concept, layout, and final.

03 — The two financial structures

Who pays, who earns what

Pick the structure first — the products below work under either. Numbers shown at the baseline: Product A, $40, 5% editions, 90% sell-through, across the full 20-date run.

Structure 1 — We finance it

~$17,000 to the band

Wide Open pays for everything — design, print, shipping. Costs recoup off the top, then the net splits 60/40 in the band's favor. You write no checks and carry zero risk. At a club-and-theatre run this size, this is the structure we'd honestly recommend.

Structure 2 — You finance it

~$21,000 to the band

The band covers production at cost (~$11,000 upfront: volume-rate print and our design & production fee — $7,000 flat, or $1,000 per show under five shows) and keeps everything else. More money, small upfront — the right call if you're confident in the run.

Same product, same work, same quality either way — and below, you can test both against any pricing you like. Signed variants, a collector foil edition, or VIP integration and the numbers move fast.

04 — Product A · Budget playground

Limited edition per night

Every number is a lever — drag them and the budget recalculates across all twenty dates. Filter by region below, or toggle any single night on and off in the table.

Print cost is dynamic — computed per date from our printer’s volume curve (€4.50/copy at 50 → €2.01 at 1,000, interpolated, shown per date in the table): currently . Split fixed at 60/40 in the band’s favor (Structure 1). Design & production (Structure 2 only): $1,000 per show under five shows, $7,000 flat at five or more.
Copies printed
Gross retail
Net pool
Net to the band
Net to Wide Open

Per night, at your settings

Capacities are concert-configuration estimates — true them against ticketed capacity and every row recalculates. The Helldorado festival date is included at concert scale; trim it if the edition is a headline-only play.

05 — Product B · Budget playground

Open tour edition

One design, the whole tour, closed forever at the end. Batch-printed to demand — structurally low risk for whoever finances.

Locked: print at $2.20/copy (batch rate, shipping included). Split fixed at 60/40 in the band's favor (Structure 1). Design & production: flat $5,000 (Structure 2 only).
Copies printed
Gross retail
Net pool
Net to the band
Net to Wide Open
06 — Side by side, at your current settings

A vs B

Product A — net to the band
Product B — net to the band

Scarcity carries the price — per-night editions give every date its own sell-out moment, and nothing ends up in a $10 clearance bin. The open edition wins on simplicity and a lower entry price. Same shows, two ways to run them — pick one.

Methodology per our standard model: hall fee on venue sales · 5% shrinkage & CC on venue gross · print costed on volume tiers · excludes sales tax.

07 — How it runs

Production & next steps

EditorialImagery from the band's archive under one-time license, commissioned photography, or the band's creative team. Essays, sleeve-style writing, the city's history with the band. Approval at concept, layout, and final — every page.
The templateOne architecture, an edition per night: masthead, date, city, that show. Designing at tour pace is our production system, not an experiment.
The collectorsDeath By Sexy at twenty is a nostalgia moment — a dated, capped edition per night is exactly the kind of object this fanbase keeps. Signed copies sit naturally at the top of the merch table as the collector tier.
The set piecesLondon — O2 Forum Kentish Town (Nov 22), the flagship UK night. Eindhoven — Helldorado (Nov 14), the festival moment. Bern (Nov 02) — the tour opener, edition number one.
Logistics6–10 weeks concept-to-first-edition. Production and shipping are one week per batch; design is the only real variable. Shipped with the merch, sold through your existing tables and POS — no staffing burden.
Next1 · Pick product and structure. 2 · True capacities and venue fees — everything recalculates. 3 · Archive access + concept session. 4 · Concept lock September → Bern opener, November 2.