booking agents

[migamiga]

if you're a card carrying full member of the punk rock pyramid scheme, and you've booked your own tour all across the USA, and your band is boring, your band is boring.

[Swampy]

THESE FOLKS ARE TOTALLY PUNK AND DIY AND KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

[rutabowa]

Best part of this thread is that Rutabowa is talking about touring the UK. It's the size of Ohio. And he lives there.

no i'm not. we book our own gigs in the UK. i'm talking about Europe. you don't have a clue about me do you! like you already said.

[rutabowa]

u have 2 man up 2 enjoy life IMO

sorry i am not up on "text speak".

why are you getting so offended dude??!???!?!??!?!?!? imo means in my opinion just so you know!! can't even look something up yourself huh!?!?!?!

i'm not offended by you! i just literally can't understand about half of the words you type.

[rutabowa]

i guess maybe america is different, and there are only 2 options: either 100% diy, never let anyone do anything to help out style; OR "top tier Scian approved booking agency" which i assume is some evil corporation, neither of which i have any experience of so i can't comment (i don't count us organising gigs across the UK as DIY, that is just "organising some gigs", i wouldn't personally make a big deal that we were doing something great by doing that). i think there are lots of options in between, eg some guy who has been in a few bands of the same kind and done a lot of touring agrees to book a tour around people he knows, and takes a little cut of whatever is made (so you could never come back in debt unless a van blows up etc). that is the kind of booking agent i am talking about.

any this thread: some guy doing a punk label asksfor a recommendation, i give one which i think will help out (thereby contributing to the "punk community") then everyone else spends all their time bitching!! is it always like this?

[rutabowa]

I guess I could kind of be considered a booking agent because I've booked so many tours for bands I have put out. I've also booked Florida legs of tours for a lot of bands, but I consider that more hooking my friends up then playing booking agent.

well yes that is 100% being a booking agent isn't it?! what could possibly make that not being a booking agent?

[nickg]

i'm getting a lot of enjoyment from this thread.

[P-TNT]

my next band is gonna be called Booking Agents 

[sgo shocks]

Not everyone has a yearning desire to go live in a gulag. Some of us used to watch Robin Leach's program and daydream.

Gulag Booking Agency.  I like where this is going.

[tahiti amin]

I guess I could kind of be considered a booking agent because I've booked so many tours for bands I have put out. I've also booked Florida legs of tours for a lot of bands, but I consider that more hooking my friends up then playing booking agent.

well yes that is 100% being a booking agent isn't it?! what could possibly make that not being a booking agent?

mainly the fact that I never got paid for it. 

[Shitguise]

Wait...so if I put out a couple of bands 7 inches....I have to start booking shows too?
Fuck it.
I'm out.

[bradxxx]

real punx only play basements. 

[Marc]

then everyone else spends all their time bitching!! is it always like this?

http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/index.php?topic=22473.0

welcome aboard

[Scrod Prickknee]

Wait...so if I put out a couple of bands 7 inches....I have to start booking shows too?
Fuck it.
I'm out.

No, but if you put out albums for bands who have a following, it may help out your label/the bands to give an assist. I'm sure a low profile band with one single can string together a week of bar shows.

[wnkrs]

people hate working for suxess

BD didnt get here without workin mad hard str8^ NEGL (straight up not even gonna lie)