3rd Day of Xmas Band Booking Tips

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While you're looking for ways to improve your band booking success, tip number 3 here is something missed by a lot of musicians.

It applies whether you're gigging already and you want more, or if you haven't yet started playing live.

You might find this hard to believe at the moment - especially if you're facing a Xmas holiday period without any or enough band bookings. The fact is though that once you've learnt the steps for how to get your band booked a few times there's be nothing to stop you completely packing  your gig diary with dates. 

Band booker beware though. If you don't do a little preparation ahead of the game, that's where your trouble can begin.

As a band, you need to agree in advance between you, how much work you want. How many nights a week or month (or year) you want to be out gigging. 

This will do more than give you all a target to focus on and motivate you to get the bookings. As importantly it'll set limits that all band members "sign up to" so that everyone is happy and  gigging doesn't ultimately become a pain and get in the way of other commitments. 

I've worked with enough bands over the years to know that once some band members start complaining about your gigging schedule, or even worse, you have to cancel bookings - your days as a successful live act are numbered....

More about band booking preparation

Xmas Band Booking  Tip #1

Xmas Band Booking Tip #2

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Band Booking Xmas Tip 2

Do you need to improve the amount of band bookings you've been getting? 

If so, here's the 2nd of twelve days of band booking tips you can use over the holiday season. These simple techniques have all been used by bands and solo artists in over 15 countries around the  world to fill their gig dairies.


Once you've found out about other bands and acts who are playing gigs at the potential gig venues in your area (see band booking tip #1), you need to look at how they compare to your act. 

You do this, because when the time comes to start trying to sell yourself to venues, you'll need to know what makes you guys different from other bands. This will give you a lot more confidence when you're pitching your band and also help to make it clear to venues why they should book you.


The best way to start this process is just by listing down all the "features" or facts about your band (or yourself if you're a solo act). Things like:


- Numbers of people in the band 
- Instruments played
- Band and individual band members musical history
- Ages
- Where you're based
- Where (if anywhere), you've played before
- Type of material


No matter what your answers are to the above questions, if you have some real differences between you and other bands competing for the same gigs, you'll be able to use the differences to sell you act.


Once you've got your list of features, and you've compared them with the other local bands you've found, ask yourself which features appear to be your strong and weak points. Think about whether and how you might improve your weak points and how you'll aim to push your strong points when it comes to marketing your act to venues for band bookings. 


More ideas on this 2nd Xmas band booking tip here