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The Tour Book: How to Get Your Music on the Road
Live music is a huge industry and playing live is an integral part of the success for any musician, band or artist. 'The Tour Book' provides practical advice, hints and tips on every aspect of putting on a live show - rehearsing, equipment, travel, accommodation, booking and promoting shows, sound checking, contracts, taxation, working abroad and
marketing. Featuring interviews with the industry's key figures and contemporary artists and musicians, 'The Tour Book' is the only book to contain the distilled advice of these artist managers, booking agents, talent buyers and very successful artists and bands.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Part One - The Live Music Industry
Chapter One: Industry Overview
Chapter Two: How It All Works
Chapter 3: Contracts & Riders
Part Two - How To Get Your Show On The Road
Chapter Four: Getting On Stage
Chapter 5: Preparation for the show
Chapter 6: Equipment
Chapter 7: At The Show
Chapter 8: Getting On Stage
Chapter 9: Marketing
Chapter 10: Getting Paid
Chapter 11: How to Get More Shows
Part Three - Working In The Live Music Industry
Chapter 12: Working behind-the-scenes
Chapter 13: How to gain work and keep it!
Chapter 14 - 26 The behind-the-scenes jobs
Part Four - The Future
Epilogue - THAT story!
A fantastic true story featuring the author
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