The Agent Strikes Back
After a month or so of agent bashing, it was only a matter of time before someone stepped up to put us back in our place. And that someone is the brilliant Mr Tom Taaffe, the man behind the bookings ...
28 Mar 20241h 37min
Do Promoters Discuss Band Fees? - Q&A 1
The mailbox is full and the questions keep coming in, so here's an episode dedicated to all your curiosities. Do festival promoters talk to each other about band fees? Have we ever got into a biddin...
28 Mar 202452min
Mogwai, Baby!
Ten years of increased offers, multiple snubs, endless fan demands and with almost all hope lost... Mogwai finally agreed to play the final night of the 10th anniversary of ATG. It had to be part of ...
21 Mar 202437min
The Dark Arts of Booking Bands
Booking bands is the Wild West of music promotion, where cash, gamesmanship, ego and relationships clash in the process of sealing a deal. But it isn't as simple a just working out a fee. There's hot...
14 Mar 20241h 7min
(The Dummies Guide) To Starting Festivals
2,000 Trees, Damnation and ArcTanGent have carved themselves out solid reputations on the UK festival scene but not without almost two decades of graft, good fortune and the odd costly mistake, or twe...
9 Mar 202447min
The Hunt for Headliners
The right headliner can make or break your year, whether the rest of the line-up is excellent or not. But it's not as easy as just throwing heaps of cash at your favourite band to land the booking yo...
7 Mar 202441min
The Ballache of Billing a Festival
Who goes one line up on the poster? Whose logo needs to be bigger? Who goes left or right when two bands are virtually identical in stature? And who decides? The art of billing the line-up poster is ...
29 Feb 202444min
Slayer's Marketing Plan
In a short space of time, Slayer transformed themselves from dependable festival fodder, who filled academies on tour to an arena outfit who have returned to share top billing alongside the likes of S...
29 Feb 202428min
