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[QUOTE="xmikex:132027"]More tips from a guy who's seen it done every way wrong possible: - No more than 5 bands. Ever. Unless you're booking an all day fest at the palladium with a HUGE headliner marathon shows outright suck without exception. They're boring, and costly. - Put a sincere effort into putting a lineup together. Not just: Some band thats not really headlining material, your own band, your friend's band, some kid from the internet's band who's been bugging you about shows even though you've never even heard them. - For DIY shows your headliner should be expected to bring in at least, bare minimum 30 - 50 kids by their name alone. If you can put 2 more bands with a solid reputation in the middle, and get an opener to bring at least 10, you can get yourself 100 kids there no problem. - Bands from out of state, or who travel over 2 hours to play a show should never ever play first, or last. - TIME MANAGEMENT TIME MANAGEMENT TIME MANAGEMENT. This was covered earlier but I can't stress it enough. Know when the venue shuts down. Don't over book your shows, and make sure you enforce time limits on bands' sets. Its ridiculous when it gets to there being 3 or 4 bands left with like 40 minutes till the venue kicks you out. - Never EVER EVER for any reason abandon your show. There is absolutely no excuse imaginable for abandoning a show that you booked. It is entirely your responsibility to see that show through from beginning to end. You should be the first one there, and the last one to leave. Even if your "ride" wants to leave. Even if you don't have the money to pay whoever. Even if you get punched dancing and you're too scared to stay. - PROMOTION. There is no excuse for a poorly promoted show. Get the local bands on your bill to do promoting. Bands that refuse to promote have NO buisness even playing shows. MAKE FLYERS. Flyers are the life-blood of DIY. Hand flyers out at shows 100 at a time. Put them up in record stores, skate shops, the mall, wherever. Copies are 5cents each. That's 100 flyers for $5. For person to person flyers make 4 smaller flyers on one sheet of paper. That quadruples the amount of flyers you can make. PUTTING UP AN ADD FOR YOUR SHOW ON LAMBGOAT, RTTP, AND SOME LIVEJOURNAL COMMUNITY ALONE IS NOT SUFFICIENT PROMOTION. You might make 300 flyers for a show that only 100 people show up for, but it'll be well worth it. - Get your bands, and people directions to the show. Mapquest does not count. - Keep your bands informed. - For christs sake, whatever or whoever you get your PA from make goddamn sure that its there for the ENTIRE show. Its not up to anyone to pick and choose who gets to use "the good PA", or whatever. One PA for one show, for ALL the bands. - Above all BE PROFESSIONAL. If you act like a professional, manage your show well, and at the same time are courteous to the bands, and people you will get respect and cooperation from people. If you act like a jerk, and try to bully people you're going to get it thrown back in your face. If you act like a retard no one will take you seriously. - And no matter how many phone calls you make, how much work you put into your show, how many months of labor that goes into convincing a well known venue to book independently to 18 year old kids, and how much good it would do for a band to headline the middle east, odds are Burial probably won't show up. hope this helps.[/QUOTE]
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