Shouldn’t the band pay for their own stuff?
Hey Bill. I’ve promoted a couple of shows with some local bands and I’m moving up to do some concerts. A friend of mine in the concert business says you have to pay for food, drinks, hotels, and a bunch of other crap. What’s up with that, if I’m paying the band shouldn’t they buy their own stuff?
One of the things we do unlike any other agency is we created what is called a “turn key package”. The turn key package enables us to handle all those details you’ve mentioned. A lot of new promoters are not familiar on how to do these things. That’s why we specialize in making things easy so they can concentrate on selling tickets and making money. You can always outsource all these different items as a promoter. But as a young promoter most vendors will try to take advantage of you not knowing if you’re coming back for show number two. What I would advise is you let us handle all the details and you deal with selling tickets and making enough money to pay me. By the way I’m going to need a well done cheese pizza at 2pm and a six pack of Redbull at 6pm in my office.
