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It was a bit deflating but she booked us for her father’s 50th birthday party.
The tribute - agent. Gigs are offered constantly. Every time we earn the agent earns so unsurprisingly the agent keeps offering. You can generally work for as many agents as you want and still get your own gigs. Our money comes from ticket sales so if we promote a show and it sells well it can be quite well paid. A tribute act is probably the easiest type of band to promote and we use the normal Instagram, paid FB plus local radio and local paper.
Originals band - It's more about who you know when it comes to getting on some good bills. I used to run a recording studio so I have a lot of friends and contacts I've made over the years plus we have put on our own festival a few times and booked ourselves
Covers band - You need some great sounding live footage of your band on Youtube so people can hear what you sound like. it needs to be proper live with proper punters, not a faked thing but it needs to sound great, not a distorted phone recording. We started recording via multitrack off the desk quite a few years ago. I would remix the audio and then put the good audio on the videos people used to take. There's about 100 videos of us now on Youtube doing all kinds of covers and we get loads of work from it.
We like the corporate function gigs because that's generally the best paid and the comes with the most perks. We also do a lot of well paid weddings. We don't do many normal pub gigs as most pubs won't pay the money but we have an arrangement with one pub that we play every month. They do pay us well and it provides a venue where punters can come and see us and that leads to a lot of well paid weddings and corp stuff as well. We have the normal FB band page but I think Youtube has been the best window for us.