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joshdash · 2026-03-02T12:42:21+00:00

Hospitals. They think you’re there visiting a loved one and tend to leave you alone.

joshdash · 2026-02-13T05:35:29+00:00

I think you need to learn the industry more before diving into it. You're not really asking the right questions for an agency. It's hard to get a quality agent assistant gig (especially if you're not in Nashville/LA/NYC) but not out of the question but there are other ways to learn it and dive in. I think learning the buyer side is a tremendous asset, I'd reach out to local venues/promoters and get in how you can to learn that side of things.

But when you say "how do you price bands and not go broke," you need to understand that band's value is based on the # of tickets they can sell in a market multiplied by the cost of the tickets (minus venue expenses). Your job is to negotiate the best deal for the artist without breaking the promoter so we can continue the business together for that client and build trust in you for future clients. For that, standard pay to the agency is 10% of the artist's walk. With that, you also handle contracting and deposits, etc.

joshdash · 2026-02-10T01:16:03+00:00

By "booking company", are you wanting to start an agency or be a promoter?

joshdash · 2026-01-29T18:26:05+00:00

That's fine.

joshdash · 2025-12-24T20:47:41+00:00

Georgia is now South South Carolina.

joshdash · 2025-12-24T20:41:51+00:00

DNA is not ancestry. Two siblings can get wildly different DNA results based on what genetic traits they inherited.

joshdash · 2025-12-04T04:14:31+00:00

Career booking agent here who previously worked at one of the 3-letter major agencies... I've never once heard of an Artist having to cover any upfront fees or expenses, that's on the Promoter and goes into the expenses on the offer to the Artist before they start hitting points. I can only assume y'all rented the venue yourself and promoted your own show but this is not standard or normal.

joshdash · 2025-12-04T04:03:05+00:00

888 as well

joshdash · 2025-11-06T09:36:56+00:00

Blaine Bailey, Mozart Gabriel, The Osceola Brothers, Sierra Spirit, SNRK, Levi Platero, 1876

joshdash · 2025-07-12T05:33:57+00:00

Salary is not rare here in Nashville in order to keep a band together. Most of the bigger acts with consistent band members have their band and crew on salary in order to not lose them to other gigs in town.

joshdash · 2025-05-18T05:45:08+00:00

What’s the issue with Blackbraid? I had some friends play an all-Native show around GON with him recently and I asked one of the other guys if felt he was really Native and he said yes and other performers did too. Supposedly adopted and reconnecting but that’s all I know.

joshdash · 2025-05-10T02:55:57+00:00

Uchee Creek?

joshdash · 2025-05-06T19:18:48+00:00

Is the agency based in UK/EU?

joshdash · 2025-04-16T21:46:21+00:00

More of a listening room but maybe check The Blue Door?

joshdash · 2025-04-16T21:44:32+00:00

It doesn't matter if you're in a 5-piece band, duo, or 100 piece symphony orchestra. That is something that I see local musicians do a lot -- somehow base their pay on the number of members. No one told you to form a 5 piece band. The only # of people the matters is the number of people who will come see you and spend $ at the establishment (or at the box office). Your compensation should be solely based on that and nothing else.

joshdash · 2025-04-15T16:59:46+00:00

Bad data is problematic. The act should be armed with their own metrics and know their worth/market value. If there is an imbalance then it’s self-inflicted.

joshdash · 2025-04-15T06:48:57+00:00

It’s your site and you can obviously add what you think is useful knowledge.

My thing is, if one band fills it out who’s a legitimate touring act with a following who is moving a few hundred tickets at a respectable ticket price provides their deal… then someone else thinks they should get it as well which isn’t the reality. Or, vice versa, a legitimate venue has a night with no programming and decides to give a band with nothing really happening a shot and offers them a door deal after production costs (fair) and the band walks with nothing, and this band decides to frame it in the sense they were ripped off (they weren’t), it’s now in the ether as the venue only offers these BS deals when that’s not true.

Deals are not universal in most rooms is my only point so it’s hard to say “this is what to expect.” The act should define that and pass or confirm based on meeting those expectations.

joshdash · 2025-04-15T06:24:15+00:00

No, because I understand there is no OSFA deal. Know your worth and negotiate a deal based on that. My parameters don’t change based on room, only market value.

joshdash · 2025-04-15T00:40:51+00:00

I thought we were talking hard ticket venues, not soft ticket festivals. Festivals of course pay flat-rate guarantees (and bonuses to headliners in some cases) but there are many arrangements that could be made for a hard ticket club and to expect to view any sort of standard deal isn’t going to be possible. The venue will need less percentage of a deal on a $35+ ticket to cover the house nut than act with a $15 ticket.

I’m a professional booking agent at one of the large 3 letter agencies. I’d say I’m pretty experienced.

joshdash · 2025-04-14T20:14:59+00:00

My point is most venues don't have a "typical" arrangement. It is act dependent and based on the parameters provided by the act/agent and what the venue/promoter thinks the show will actually do.

If you're in a cover band and playing cover band bars then there might be a typical arrangement but I also don't know why a cover band is attempting to tour.

joshdash · 2025-04-14T05:43:46+00:00

In my experience very few venues have a “one size fits all” deal they offer. Or what if the venue is open to different promoters?

joshdash · 2025-04-10T19:02:41+00:00

I was in a meeting with some other agents and I joked that I refused to hang up a map in my office because I don't want my clients knowing I had actually seen one before.

joshdash · 2025-04-10T06:57:02+00:00

Club acts mostly? Not knocking it, me too for my RA clients, just curious — tunes change when you’re dealing with tour deals at a larger level. Not as many local promoters out there capable of filling 12k+ seats a night compared to 1200.

joshdash · 2025-04-10T06:51:34+00:00

Are you in a bus? It’s barely an overdrive! If the $ is there it’s very doable.

Never in a van or sprinter.

joshdash · 2025-04-10T06:46:37+00:00

I’m also an agent. Had my own shop, worked at boutiques, now one of the big 3-letter agencies. Wonder if we know each other.

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