Concert tour managers have decades of experience. Get a second opinion from them before you confirm the tour or festival performance. Tour Management Is Not Just a Job On-The-Road Concert tour management is not driving or just going on-the-road with your artist. Concert tour managers have years, sometimes decades, of experience. You can call on … Read more
Planning a tour involves the artist, artist management, booking agent, and concert promoter working together to decide on tour dates, cities, and venues, ticket price, marketing strategy, as well as negotiating the performance fee itself. Once all this is completed, the artist’s concert tour manager will start pre-production and advancing activities. Both are vital processes … Read more
In short: The carnet is a ‘passport’ for your equipment. You get an ATA carnet stamped at customs every time the gear crosses a border: outbound at UK ports and airports, on arrival at the foreign customs point, and again on the way home. Each crossing uses the correct coloured voucher — yellow for UK … Read more
In short: An input list tells a venue’s sound crew every sound source on stage and exactly which microphone or DI each one needs; a stage plan shows where each of those sources physically sits. Together, they let an audio crew who has never met you set up the show correctly without guesswork. Ask an … Read more
In short: UK touring artists and crew need an A1 certificate from HMRC to prove they only owe UK National Insurance while working in the EU, and it’s currently taking six to eight months to arrive — so apply well before any EU dates (use the faster CA3837 route if touring imminently). If it hasn’t … Read more
Everyone who is important will want the AAA pass. How do you decide who gets all access – and where exactly does all access get them?
The contract rider and the contract for a concert – what is the difference? This article, written by a tour manager, shows you the difference with an example rider.
A quick guide to using expiry dates and version numbers on input lists, stage plans, catering riders, and other docs for concert touring. Written by a tour manager.
For music artists – what is a carnet? A guide for musicians on getting and using a carnet, by a concert tour manager. What is a carnet? A carnet (pronounced ‘kar-nay’) is a kind of passport for musical equipment. The ATA Carnet (to use the correct name) permits tax- and duty-free import and export of … Read more