I'm with you Frode.....I know EXACTLY what you're going through with this, and it's complete BS to tell you that you are a bad manager for making your band lose money.
The more I read about people in here, having all kinds of pre-fabricated opinions about a lot of stuff, that they don't know Jack-Sh** about, the more I wanna venture into my old dream about writing a book about this whole disgusting scenario, called the music business, letting people know exactly how business IS conducted....all the way from the professional company to the lousy self-exalted crackhead, who's in there, just to gain cheap points.
.....but I'll probably never do it, coz 98% of everyone I know would hate me afterwards, hahahahahaha.
Later,
Lars