Stage Portal - The Advance

Every should have a tech rider. Most bands don't have one. Or most of them are wrong. Not wrong in a catastrophic way, wrong in the quiet, costly way that means your soundcheck runs over, the engineer is working from guesswork, and the first song of your set is the one where you figure out the monitors aren't right. In this episode we get into the tech rider in detail. What it actually n...

You played a great gig. The promoter seemed interested. The venue said they'd be in touch. And then nothing. So you moved on, assumed it wasn't meant to be, and crossed them off the list. Here's the thing most of the time, that silence isn't a no. It's just noise. Promoters are busy, inboxes are full, and the band who follows up is almost always the band who gets the call...