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 artist’s equipment, and it has to be cleared every time the gear crosses a customs border: on the way out of the UK, on arrival abroad, on leaving, and again on the way home. Since 1 June 2026 that can mean a paper carnet stamped by … Read more
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