The Festival's Money

The Doc

The Festival, like last year, will have its own currency: the DOC. 1 DOC is worth 150 pesetas. For reasons of security, we remind you that, as was announced last year, the 1996 DOCs are not valid for the 1997 Doctor Music Festival. The new design of the DOCS ’97 will not be announced until the day before the Festival starts.

The festival services (food, drink, hot showers, market, hairdresser, etc.) can be paid for with DOCs .

The “la Caixa” Doctor Music Festival Cash-Visa Cash Card

On Wednesday, 30th April, “la Caixa” launched its new Doctor Music Festival Cash Card. Since then, it has been available at all branches of “la Caixa” and can be obtained absolutely free of charge (merely by being a client of “la Caixa”). Applicants also receive, completely free, a fun watch bearing the logo of the Doctor Music Festival cow.

This launch is a high-tech innovation and is news for two reasons since:

a) It is the first cash card to bear a personalised logo. In this case, the Doctor Music Festival logo. Undoubtedly this is yet another step towards implanting a means of payment in whose development in Spain has been pioneered by “la Caixa”.

b) Doctor Music Festival becomes the first festival in the world to have its own electronic money (the Doctor Music Festival Cash Card). This card will not only be another means of payment in the festival area (drinks, food, supermarket, etc.) but can also be used in all establishments throughout Spain which accept “Visa Cash” cards.

The Doctor Music Festival cash card is the same size as a credit card and works in exactly the same way as the first Cash Card developed by “la Caixa” at the beginning of 1996. Its function is to make everyday shopping and payment easier, like a traditional purse, where the coins are replaced with a rechargeable chip stuck to the card, in which money is deposited from the owner’s “la Caixa” current account or savings book. The purchase transaction in the establishment does not need any prior authorisation by telephone or signature, so this card is much quicker to use than a credit card. Thanks to its fitted chip, the Cash Card can also be used to make phone calls from public telephones.

Card owners are free to decide the amount of money they want to charge onto the chip of their card. The card can be recharged as often as one wants, 24 hours a day at the ServiCaixa terminals and the latest generation cash dispensers marked with the corresponding VISA CASH symbol. At present, more than 315,000 “la Caixa” clients already use this means of payment and the number of establishments which accept it is almost 100,000 and rising fast.

The Doctor Music Festival Cash Card offers some special advantages which set it apart from other cash cards since the owners are automatically entitled to become members of the “Doctor Music Club”.

The “Doctor Music Club” offers various advantages related to the Doctor Music Festival and the concerts organised regularly by Doctor Music throughout Spain.

The advantages this club offers its members include the following:

- Discount at the Planet Music record shops in Barcelona (5% on all music and 10% on artists who perform at the Doctor Music Festival ‘97) on all purchases which are paid for with the festival’s Cash Card.

- 5% discount on all products at the Diesel Super Store clothes store in calle Puertaferrisa 16, Barcelona.

- If you buy the Doctor Music Festival pass from a ServiCaixa, before 15th June and paying with the festival’s Cash Card, you will participate in a draw for 50 backstage passes (area restricted to musicians and technicians) at the Doctor Music Festival ‘97.

-You will receive information in advance about forthcoming concerts.

-Draws for tickets to concerts, free entry to private promotional concerts and many more advantages which, in time, will be announced to the members of the Doctor Music Club.