Hello.
I am booking a tour for October, tis only a week and around the south of England. There is myself and another act going out on the road as like a joint headline thing... any tips or helpful information that you have picked up while touring and booking the tour before would be most appreciated....
Thanyou.
Would prob help if
you told us the name of the bands and post a link so we can tell what type of music and get an idea of what size the bands are et cetera.
my advice is
dont bother
it nearly killed my old band when we booked and organised our own tour
but hopefully you wont be a five piece with equipment packed into a micra headin all the way from london to manchester to play to four ppl!
other wise what he said ^^^^^^^^^^
Epic fail
advice =
get tour manager
My advice...
is only do it if you and the other bands have enough of a following to actually joint headline gigs in various towns and pull an audience where you play.
Otherwise you'll get nothing out of it except for a load of depressing empty gigs in different towns...
Theoretically you might be able to get gigs at club nights or places with inbuilt audiences but this is tricky, especially if neither of you are especially well-known. And the fact there's two bands potentially makes it more difficult to get gigs as, whilst promoters might like and take a risk on one out-of-town band, taking a risk on two out-of-town 'headliners' is a massive risk...
Obviously I don't know what band you're in and you might actually be big enough to pull it off but personally when I play gigs in other towns I always try and get us gigs where we're in the middle of the bill rather than headlining and where there's a decent local headliner so there'll be a bit of an audience.
i've booked my band
(www.myspace.com/runwalk)
one and half tours since march.
we did a 4 day thing in march and 2 of those dates were with G-A-Y. so that 4 day tour was awesome.
recently we just did one at the start of april without playing big bands and although we did have some good shows most of it was playing a venue filled with 15 people if that. so basically the plan is from now on is just don't go on tour unless its with another band thats bigger than you. ( i know our myspace says we're going on tour again, but thats an exception ;) )
hope this helps
be prepared to put a lot of time in
for little return.
don't tour with another band unless one of you is big enough to pull people in. Promoters won't want to book 2 non pulling bands, and if you do get shows, like has been said, you'll mostly play to 3 people.
I booked a tour for an incredible band called Jayetal www.myspace.com/jayetal I managed to get 5 dates but put in a lot of hours. Even then I haven't asked for guarantees or anything, just a slot to play.
Good luck!