No need to be offensive but telling them to show the real figure is a must.
Surprisingly are on the same page, according to that above, when both are from complete different backgrounds.
Not nostalgia if that interest still rocks to the masses. It's been a long road and still that band is together. Think it's more of where you been.
They not only have the know how, they literally hold the keys to every possible door needing to open. Nothing stopping them from doing so. So what is?
That's the whole point of having a reception. The initial first moment of knowing are in the right place. Of course, it's not a table at the front of the entrance hall. As others reception is rolling in making a commotion to let everyone know they've arrived.
In the forest; first get the distance into its true perspective. Are believing too much of it being reachable like simply from A to B. Might find the journey a lot further than to think. Once to have this understood then can decide on which promises to make. Unless to think the ones promising are stupid?
1 Timothy Ch.3:V.7 " - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil."