Band Booking - Getting a Crowd to Your Gigs

"If you don't promote your shows no-one will come to them. If no-one comes to them you won't get a second shot"


So says the poster of this tip-packed piece about getting a crowd to your band booking.


Put another way, it's one thing to get gigs, quite another to get people into the venue for the band booking itself.


Some of the specific tips you might like are:


 * Space out your plays
Don't play any town too often. You want people to think a gig by you in any town is something special - not something they can see every week.

* Don't list all your future gigs on your website - just the next one
You don't want people picking and choosing which gigs they'll go to. The idea is to "get every fan to come and see you every time you play"

* You're not playing a band booking because you make good music - you're playing so you draw fans and so sell beer (a sobering thought eh?)
This is actually a great leveller. I've long said the band booking doesn't go to the best musicians. Rather those who know how to book the gig, get the people into the venue and then give them a great time

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