How to Book Shows/Gigs
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Part of becoming a successful artist is booking shows and gigs for yourself and your band. When artists are financially able to, they hire a booking agent. But what about the tightly budgeted independent artists? In this video, Seth Mosley, Grammy Award Winning Producer and Owner of Full Circle Music, gives his recommendation and how he booked shows when he was with his band Me In Motion.
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GOOD CHRIST! This is the video. If you’re combing through random videos for advice, THIS is the one. All the other ones are common sense. You gave me two tips that literally made me pause the video to try and they WORKED. That has never ever happened to me in the history of RUclips tutorials. Tysm dude I have another show thanks to you, not even joking ❤️
heres another thing u can try to if you havnt yet, u may be gigging alot rn but what we did was Go to events at these venues, meet local artist, become friends and get on shows with them, alot of local bands are down to play with most ppl (generally speaking, there are some guys who have an ego).
Great co tent! How do we find local & regional artists, musicians, bands to play at our venue?
Im starting an orchestra trio with 2 of my friends hopefully this goes somewhere wish me luck 🤞🏽🤞🏽
Less than a minute in and I can tell you're for real here. Booking is hard work, thanks for the sage advice.
I’d love to hear more detail about booking in today’s market.
Same mate
I remember your band, Me in Motion. You opened for Decyfer Down and Red, it was a great show.
Fellow Ohioan here love the content
This was very helpful. Thank you!
Awesome advice!
Thank you for this video...very helpful.
This was definitely helpful! Thank you so much :) I've definitely done the whole email thing and DM thing, but never thought of actually CALLING! I thought that would be annoying to them, but really, you're right treat it like a telemarketer and it is a numbers game.
Well, I definitely have some homework to do! 😅 Let's see if you're right and see how long I last at doing these calls! 😂 I hope for my sake you are wrong. I'm actually excited to do this! Thank you again :)
Thank you this is very helpful!!!😁
Thank you so much man. Super helpful.
I am in East Texas and am rebranding myself and starting over after a break from performing for 10 years. So I am basically a new artist but I do solo guitar work in differing styles.
this was needed !
Thanks brother for the reasurement
Really great video Seth
awesome video man
Thank you ! This video was indeed helpful . Young Maui artist tryna get serious about doing shows . It’s fun to do one offs but I want more consistency. Just watched this while I’m tryna edit a music promo :)
Thank you!!
THAT was great thanks
thanks for the advice, when I arrived to this country I didn't have anything to eat, I needed a job first so I remember I had no phone, so I walked every morning around 40 min to the closest public phone and I had to detour in the laundry to illegaly change some quarters, so the night before I always made a bucket potential list of places to call, so I connected myself to the next street free neighbor's wifi lifting my old/slow dammaged laptop to get some internet and find places, but at that time I didn't thought about being "famous" it was just a place to make some cash , but today it is easier to use technology to always talk one-on-one :) , you get used to the "NOs" so don't take it personally and look for the YES
This guy gets it
Hey, I’m so happy you did this video:) Could you possibly do a video on the venue end of that? How to approach an artist or band, what questions to ask, define language to use, explain that process? Thanks ☺️
I'm an upcoming artist from Philly..
I'll bless your Venue 💯💯🤝🏼
Love the idea of paying people to come to a show at the beginning but then making it back on merch (and future bookings).
Thank you for this video. I'm just unsure of what places I even want to play at.
Thank you
Just commenting to help
Great advice man! I'm from Texas and was wondering, what kind of Venues would I shoot for a Vocal/choral group with a backing band?
Do some boots on the ground research and talk to the staff and owners of your favorite local venues and see what it would take for you to play there! They may just need a good audition tape!
Who do you ask for when calling a venue?
Question...so once you make your phone calls and get your show booked how do you deal with the financial side of the deal ? Do you ask for money? Do you offer to play for free? Do you at least try to cover your travel expenses? If so, how? What’s a professional way of talking about the money ?
In the very beginning, it's much harder to ask for money aside from them covering some travel cost or maybe putting you up at one of their houses. When we started out we brought the whole package including sound/lighting production. This was an up front investment on our part to have this gear in the first place, but it removed an excuse or a layer of difficulty in bringing us in - being one less thing they had to think about. We would shoot for $500 per show, which pretty much let us break even, but there were many shows we did for free, or for a cut of the ticket sales. You always have your Merch you can sell too. You definitely want to bring it up on the front end once you know they are interested, but not right at the beginning of the convo. Make sense? Seth
@@OfficialFCMusic Thank you! :)
When booking, how do you know what price to give? That’s our biggest issue. I don’t want to short sell ourselves but I don’t want to overcharge.
This is a great question. I can only speak from my experience - when we started out, we tried to get $500 per show, as that was about the average "break-even" amount for us once we factored in travel and other costs. Another thing you can do is ask other artists who are at a similar career level as you what they are charging. You can also use the "fake promoter trick" where you pretend to be a promoter who wants to book a certain artist and reach out to find out what their prices are. I'm not encouraging this, but I've known people to do it. :p Seth
Awesome! I really appreciate the reply. Trying to book is a tough one!
But how do i book shows for other bands?
Nooice
When do you know you can hire a venue and do your own show from just doing gigs run by promoters and do you need to do your own shows to potentially get noticed by a record labels. Is it possible for promoters to be looking for a headlining act so you don’t need to book your own show?
Yes, promoters are always looking for artists to showcase, if they can bring people. I'd recommend finding out what sorts of local promoters are in your area, introducing yourself and reaching out to them with links to your music! You can also book your own shows and promote them yourself but speaking from experience it is a lot of work.
@@OfficialFCMusic you said you got a record deal do you have to do your own shows to get noticed by a record label?
I got one gig so far in August last year
I haven't had any since.
Tried getting booked but nowhere got back to me
I was in the place at first. But I told me myself I wouldn’t quit until they told me no. I stayed persistent and kept emailing them every other day. Eventually they will respond and either give you the show or not. But an answer is always better than silence.
so make calls not emails?
Hey man I’m a Christian music artist Davidking could you speak more about your experience in being a Christian musician
Want to promote an Irish musican to South africa.for a concert.is i am responsible for pay their flight tickets and hotel
What if we do don’t heaven have a band? I have a bass player but no drummer. Do I just send them my TikTok music videos? What if we have less than a thousand streams on Spotify and 127 followers? I heard without a following it’s tough.
What if you're good, but still unknown and cant bring a bunch of people to your concerts?
Did you just book at places that already had people interested in the music, no matter who it is?
Good question! Sometimes it is best to open for artists who already have a following or to play open mic events and smaller gigs before booking your own headlining event!
When you said to call the promoter to try to open for an upcoming show, how do you do that? Like who is the promoter usually- do you just try to call the venue?
The opening artist themselves, I assume
Hey so I’m 13 and in a cover band… does this still like work?
If your focus is cover songs and you can play them well you could consider marketing yourself as a wedding band for hire. Create a promo video of what your band looks/sounds like performing and send it out to a booking agency. Note: As most wedding bands perform covers, how you differentiate yourself will be the genres/decade of music you specialise in and also how you guys are styled image wise✌🏾
If you didn't get answers, did you leave a voicemail message? and at some point do you just write that venue off your list? Not now days, they will not respond! I"ve called and they will say well send us your music, then you hear nothing. guess you have to keep calling..
Pay to play, not to be making money is the goal. Yea right.
What to do when another local artist is trying to destroy you?
Just like everything else. Money spent first.
Bruh fellow ohioan
1:28 1:29 down in ohio
So...you spent 5+ min to say "call around everywhere". thanks. lol
Thats all you got out of this video? lmao
>pay people to come to your show
>build reputation
these stay on the contrary in most of hardcore/metal scene and actually undermine your name.
Would not recommend.
Helpful, yes, but everything he said made me extremely frustrated and depressed.
What a horrible job music is