On The NightGig Preparation

Handy Tips

Do you have wristbands ready?

Pack a nikko/black marker

Have spare paper ready

Have a mailing list up for your business

Have spare tickets read to go

Have your merch area ready

Have a torch/maglight-mini one

Create signs for merch/laminate to avoid spills

Have rider ready and prepped to go out to each band or all at once.

Photographers

Guest lists

Door sheet

Pens

White out

Blue tac

Gaffa tape

Stage Plots

Sound Engineer

Merchandise

Volunteers

Payment: Bands and Venue

Guard the $ with your life. Nightclubs are dark and even a drunk can smell cold hard cash!

Either get the venue to hold it til the next week or you take it with you. Pro’s venue should be covered with insurance for possible theft. Negatives- who knows what could happen. OR take the cash and drive straight home and hide it somewhere. Story of band who left it in car, left it backstage, put it in wrong guitar case.

Bank it. Earn the interest!

Make sure you document everything. I.e. How much you took from the venue

Pay bands via the net. Get them to send you an invoice.

Never pay bands when they are drunk. Can claim that you never gave it to them. Tell story of band I paid then claimed never paid…lost $ backstage through being knobs.