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Hi Folks - I'm looking for some feed back from people who have had experience with agents. We are an established covers band, and do around 12 gigs per year, mainly WMCs, Private Hires, Summer festivals, and the odd pub gig, but we are looking to get out and play more gigs, unfortunately we are all busy people with jobs / families, and I wondering if getting an agent would be the answer and have the follow questions.
1) What % do they usually take?
2) Who sets the price of the gig, the band or the agent (with his cut)
3) Are we committed the every gig he puts forward
Basically I'm interested in how it all work in a typical case.
Any insights would be much appreciated.
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There are certainly venues ( and sometimes whole chains of pubs/ venues) you can't really play unless via an agency. Probably just scope a bunch of agencies out, see if any look likely for you.
IIRC there wasn't a % , they had their fee and you had yours and you didn't necessarily know what they got. This is agents booking on behalf of venues, not agents booking venues on behalf of bands.
The agent sets the price, you do the calculations and decide if it's worth it.
Ours take 10% of the gross fee, there's no deal to be exclusive to them or to take everything they offer. They only thing frowned on is if they get you in a venue and then you try to bypass the agent for the next gig in the same venue.
I'm in 3 bands, 2 covers band and a tribute. The agents are invaluable to the tribute but useful for the covers band too.