#Music Booking Management

[yourtemponashville]

Best Tips for Staying Organized and Healthy During Summer Tours

Ah, the summer concert tour season—the time when music fills the air and fans unite to celebrate the magic of live performances. For musicians, bands, and touring staff, these tours are both exhilarating and demanding. With the adrenaline-fueled rush of performing night after night, it is easy for everyone involved in such grueling schedules to forget about staying organized and maintaining good health.

But fear not artists, musicians, crew members, and booking agencies, for we have compiled the best tips to keep you on top of your game during the summer concert tours. This blog post will explore the wonders of booking agency software and other organizational hacks that will ensure you have a blast while staying organized and healthy while on the road and entertaining all of your fans. 

The Power of Booking Agency Software

As a musician or band gearing up for a summer tour, the booking process is one of the most crucial aspects. This is where booking agency software comes to your rescue. Such a platform offers a seamless and efficient way to handle gig scheduling, manage contracts, and coordinate with venues and promoters. By using a booking management platform, you can streamline your tour schedule, track performance details, and stay ahead of the game, eliminating any last-minute chaos. 

Collaborative Planning and Communication

Touring involves a myriad of moving parts, and effective communication is the key to success. Create a centralized communication channel using your booking management platform, where everyone involved in the tour can easily collaborate. Regularly update each other on changes, progress, and challenges during the tour. Keeping everyone in the loop fosters a sense of camaraderie and ensures that everyone is on the same page, enhancing efficiency and minimizing misunderstandings. 

Prioritize Rest and Self-Care

Summer concert tours can be demanding, both physically and mentally. These characteristics are particularly evident during this time of year because of soaring temperatures across the country. It is crucial to prioritize rest and self-care to avoid illness, injuries, fatigue, and burnout. Ensure you have downtime between gigs, allowing yourself and your crew to recharge and recuperate. Encourage healthy habits like regular exercise, balanced meals, plenty of hydration, and enough sleep to maintain peak performance throughout the tour.

Embrace Mindfulness and Meditation

The life of a touring artist or musician can be fast-paced and overwhelming at times. Consider incorporating mindfulness and meditation practices into your daily routine to stay grounded and centered. Meditating for a few moments each day can help reduce stress, increase focus, and boost overall well-being. Plus, it is an excellent way to keep the creativity and productivity process active and engaged.

Stay Hydrated and Eat Well

This advice is mentioned above, but it is worth mentioning in more detail because it is so important to overall health. On-the-road food choices can sometimes be limited and unhealthy. Be mindful of the selections you make. Sometimes a bit of comfort food seems like the right idea when you may feel tired or homesick. But the reality is that unhealthy food choices can be especially detrimental physically and mentally. Look for options that are fresh and unprocessed. Try to vary your food choices so you get a range of nutritious meals or snacks. Make an effort to stay hydrated and opt for lots of water rather than sugary drinks whenever possible. Carry reusable water bottles and healthy, easy-to-manage snacks with you to keep energy levels up and ensure you are ready to rock the stage each night!

Get Enough Sleep

Sleep is essential for musicians and touring staff alike, but it can be challenging when schedules seem all over the place. It is easy to fall into the trap of late-night socializing or long drives, but sleep deprivation can take a toll on your health and performance. Make sleep a priority, even if it means adjusting your schedule slightly. A well-rested artist or crew member will be more creative, productive, and ready to give their best on stage.

Organize Your Merchandise

Merchandise sales can be a significant source of income during tours. Keep your merchandise organized and readily accessible by using labeled bins or containers. This way, you will save time searching for specific items, and fans can easily find and purchase their favorite merch to commemorate their experiences. Additionally, consider using a digital payment system for merchandise sales to speed up transactions, minimize cash handling, and relieve yourself of this worry.

Plan For Emergencies

No matter how well-organized your tour is, unexpected emergencies can still arise. Have contingency plans in place for possible issues like equipment malfunctions, travel delays, or health emergencies. Make sure you have necessary items like phone chargers, booking agency contact information, and medication. Knowing what to do in these situations will help you handle them calmly and efficiently, ensuring minimal disruption to your tour schedule and avoiding any health or safety issues.

Connect with Fans and Take Breaks

Summer concert tours are an excellent opportunity to connect with your fans on a personal level. Remember, you are on the road because of your fans. Engage with them through social media, post behind-the-scenes glimpses, and interact with them at meet-and-greet events. These connections can foster loyalty and turn casual fans into devoted followers. Additionally, remember to take short breaks during long drives to explore new places or enjoy local attractions. It's a great way to recharge and find inspiration in the world around you.

As you embark on your summer concert tour, armed with the organizational help of your booking agency software and these top-notch tips, you and your team are destined for a sensational journey. Staying organized and healthy will not only boost your performance, but also ensure that you create unforgettable memories for yourselves and your fans. So, rock on, and let the music guide you on this extraordinary adventure!

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[find-the-path]

I have loved The Odyssey since the first time I read it, but somehow I've only just now found Epic: The Musical, despite it having been coming out since Christmas.

IT IS SO GOOD???? HOW DOES THIS EVEN EXIST????

It's a musical (currently unperformed--- the songs are written & the first two acts are out on Spotify/other platforms) adaptation of the Odyssey, and is so incredibly good I'm literally in awe.

This is like, five of my greatest interests combined, it's awesome.

I'm currently listening to the second song, Just a Man, which is Odysseus singing to Astyanax, Prince Hector of Troy's infant son, who Zeus tells him he has to kill, and it is SO BEAUTIFUL.

I look into your eyes and I Think back to the son of mine You're as old as he was when I left for war

Will these actions haunt my days Every man I’ve slain? Is the price I pay endless pain? Close your eyes and spare yourself the view How could I hurt you? I'm just a man who's trying to go home Even after all the years away from what I’ve known I'm just a man who's fighting for his life Deep down I would trade the world to see my son and wife I'm just a man

Even if you've never read/liked the Odyssey, please go listen to these songs! It's such a beautiful story.

#AND ALSO INCREDIBLY CATCHY?? #like i've finally found a musical actually CATCHIER than hamilton with NONE of the crassness! #only the first nine songs are out right now but they're SO GOOD!! #the guy managed to make me fall in love with the guy i KNEW was red-shirted from the book #epic the musical #the odyssey #odyssey #homer #odysseus

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

gratitude list time I'll go first

#stopped caring about some things I was caring far too much about #it's another rainy dreary day which means I can wear cozy clothes and curl up with my brother's dog and coffee and a book #little guy and I are just chillin. he's tiny and shorthaired so he gets cold easily and likes to cuddle up #and seeing as I'm the only person home rn... doggo cuddle time it is!!! #I've been reading more lately!! I'm having trouble with tbosas so I got out a couple other things (sea of tranquility included) #that I've really enjoyed. I'm reading turtles all the way down right now and oh boy I forgot how nice a little contemporary #coming of age novel can be at times. also forgot that john green is a genuinely good writer. as in I personally enjoy his style. #let's see... my favorite sound guy for church is home from college for the summer which means THERES SOMEONE HERE #WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW THE SOUND SYSTEM WORKS. me and the other sound guys have been barely #managing the last couple months bc there's been a ton of random technical glitches (the system is pretty old tbh) #so HALLELUJAH THE PERSON WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT TO DO IS BACK!!!! #I've been branching out into a bunch of things I wouldn't have thought to enjoy lately bc of the time I've been spending #with my sister in law. music and tv shows and even foods and stuff!!! #Gurt is coming to visit me in a week and a day!!!!!! I'm SO EXCITED #and last but certainly not least I gave myself bangs again and honestly I'm so happy about it.

[ultimateplaylistmaker]

I think after Toko meets Komaru all her writing suddenly features a prominent female friend to the protagonist that 100% had better chemistry then then main romantic guy had to main protagonist but can’t be together for totally normal heterosexual reasons and definitely were never in love it’s completely het that the main girl pines over how she can’t be with her best friend and how she wishes her love interest was her. It’s STRAIGHT she PROMISES.

Meanwhile all her readers are like “Well. She’s definitely in love with one of her female friends isn’t she.” and Toko acts utterly surprised when anyone points out the chemistry between the two girls and dismisses it as them just seeing things when it’s so clearly in the text.

#yes people still read her books despite being outed as a serial killer who else is going to write romance in an apocalypse pickings are slim #tokomaru #ultra despair girls #trigger happy havoc #komaru naegi #Toko Fukawa #musings from the music manager

[lauriemarch]

i care about theatre the way beth harmon cared about chess, the way andrew neiman cared about jazz, the way tracy flick cared about being school president. i care enough to kill me. i care so much that i hear it in the echoes around shadowed corners of my life, i see it when i close my eyes, it burns my skin and it closes in around my throat. i care. i care. i care. my heart is thudding so loud that i taste the beginnings of something rotten. i care.

#there needs to be a whiplash esque movie about stage management #like please PLEASE #stage manager #dark academia #light academia #studyblr #booklr #studying #light acadamia aesthetic #study notes #book blog #poetry #stage management #theatre #musical theatre

[obbsessedfan]

⋆⭒˚｡⋆ Have a Great Day! ⋆⭒˚｡⋆

Hi ya'll, hope you are having I good day! Today I noticed that I've been kind of stressed and felt not so great, so I had too remind myself that everything's ok. It helped a lot, so this is your reminder that you are amazing and everything's going to be all right.

⋆⭒˚｡⋆ "Don't Worry, Be Happy Now" - Bobby McFerrin ⋆⭒˚｡⋆

Tips for Stress, Doing Work, and When You're Not Feeling Good:

Stay Calm

Listening to Music (I blast Taylor Swift and sing along, it nearly always helps me forget about the stress. Or I play music while studying.)

Make a Gratitude List

Read a Book and Escape into a Magical World

Exercise for Physical and Mental Heath (whatever your favorite way is, it should be fun. I mostly do swimming.)

Set Goals and Track Progress (manageable ones, so they don't cause more stress)

Reminder: Mental Health is Just as Important as Physical

Bye, hope this helps someone!

You all slay!

#slay #have a great day #have a nice day #stress management #stressrelief #stress reduction #stress #mental health #unwind #reading #reader #taylor swift #music #outdoors #walk #outdoor walk #bath #books #books and reading #mental health is health #mental health matters #school #school stress #studying #gratitude #gratitude journal #gratitude list #swimming #swim #exercise

[shevr]

hey yesterday i got distracted until 5am into browsing lists of old animated movies on wikipedia and there's a bunch of stuff that i wanna get around to dig up & watch but i crave even more older, more obscure, more forgotten stuff

plz feel free to drop any obscure animated flick you know of so i can go check it ( extra bonus points if you're not american and it's a movie from your country )

#stuff i fell onto that i particularly wanna get around includes #Rock & Rule : scifi fantasy. lou reed sings the villain's songs. there's other big names in the soundtrack. absolutely bombed financially #Hugo the Hippo : i dont know much about it but seemed cute as hell #Shinbone Alley : top of the list this one i think ? arbitrarily . theres a super cool aging femme fatale cat in there #Dick Deadeye (or Duty Done) this oness complicated because it's so painfully british as in they threw racist asian designs in there ( ofc) #but the animation style is kinda charming...i need to watch it & hate it #Mr Bickford : claymation movie set to orchestral music written by frank zappa. this one seems . like a lot #its not gonna be an easy watch but i NEED to watch it #also not one that i found yesterday but i had a while back and i never managed to find ANY trace of #il giornalino di gian burrasca. 1992 italian film based on a then popular series of books about a rowdy kid... #i have no reason to want to find it other than i randomly stumbled upon it & the very few images i could find looked very charming #and the FACT that i can't even find any clips of it online is frustrating. #if somehow ur italian and u know where to find this hmu; #shevr

[icedteaandoldlace]

Tom: *tries to bully Carlos into singing something for the fans*

Carlos: *suggests Danielle sing something instead to draw attention away from himself*

Danielle: No one wants me to sing LESS than you do, Los!

Carlos: *dies laughing*

(from 17:55 of this video)

#Tom Cavanagh #Carlos Valdes #Danielle Panabaker #these three is2g 😂 #it's so different seeing them all in such a casual setting getting goofy as hell #Tom's Broadway audition story #Carlos's rant about people losing stuff because they put it in stupid places #Danielle talking about everyone dancing at her wedding #and Tom's ensuing Victor Garber impression #talking about Harry Potter because it's a book series so they found a loophole #“MUSICAL THEATRE FANS MY ASS!” “well you didn't know it either” “weeeelllllllll.......” #the rapid fire question round and them just answering like “yes. next question!” #all the shouts of “VOLDEMORT!” when someone tried to mention The Flash or any other struck work #Danielle leaping off the stage to hear a fan's question while Tom and Carlos are cutting up and making noise #it's amazing they managed to get any work done while they were all on the same show together

[fictionadventurer]

Reading Helene Hanff's descriptions of 1970s decor to my brother like it's a horror story.

Department stores sell nylon shag bathroom carpeting

"Somehow it gets worse with each word."

I bought my tearose-pink bathroom carpeting

"Ooh. Ouch."

after my friend Richard cut it to fit the floor, he had enough left over to cover the toilet tank

"Augh! No! Make it stop!"

#lol #helene hanff #i reread 84 charing cross road and needed more by her #and my library has #letter from new york #which is a collection of her monthly talks about new york life for the bbc #they're charming #and it's fun to see american things described to a british audience that finds it exotic #but i'm shocked at how much of a period piece it is #things have changed a lot in the last fifty years #and this particular bit only adds to my thesis that the '70s offered almost nothing of value to the culture #there was some decent music and a couple of sitcoms and that'a about it #fashion and interior design makes one wonder how they managed to make things eye-searingly gaudy while sticking mostly to neutrals #books

[phierecycled]

Favourite BoM or Falsettos clip?

That’s literally so hard I was picking between like 15 clips but I ended up choosing:

This is a clip from the OBC cast, Rory O’Malley is filming (you can sort of hear him singing as well)

#FIRE EXIT #KEEP AREA CLEAR #🐜🦟🐜 #most underrated part is at the end when the stage manager(?) is like ‘GO TO PLACES’ #the book of mormon muscial #broadway #musicals #bom obc #tbom #tbom musical

[karasuneko]

sad art gay boy who uses sarcasm as a coping mechanism plus the sweet funny bisexual guy who has an obnoxious air about him

#top tier ship dynamic #yes this is about kurotsuki #and a bunch of my other book ships #sad art can be interchanged with sad music etc like same thing #kuroo tetsurou #tsukishima kei #kurotsuki #this is like my fave flavour of them #like when a fic writer/artist manages to nail this exact vibe with this ship #OH I'M GONE. TOTALLY GONE. #haikyuu

[thiscatiscreepy]

Ah I see the school principal only gives good comments about your lessons on your first year of working there cool cool

#just Nothing positive. pacing was off at the start. you speak too quietly. background music was dour change it. #i fucking managed to forget that my entire class didnt have the fucking books yet and forgot to make copies #it was fine. it was an okay lesson. it picked up near the end (when the principal/boss wasnt there of course) #but she just straight up started with “what was bad about the lesson?” and never fucking had anything positive to say..bitch #i ways get nervous when other people watch hkw i teach and im probably overreacting but a lil encouragement wouldn't have fucking hurt #i shouldnt be upset about this shit. hope her coffee tastes like shit tomorrow tho #cat talks

[elftwink]

been listening to the new waterparks album (normal amount) (<- lying) which i feel like i have to post about because i have without exaggeration listened to almost nothing else in the past week. today i paced for an hour and a half and i know it was an hour and a half because it was three loops of intellectual property. i am listening to it right now. but despite the fact that i feel like im inventing new brain chemicals they wont even show up on my wrapped because i started listening to them [this much] this month after spotify stops recording stats for wrapped. and like on the one hand i dont need spotify to validate my interest in the music i listen to and in general i try to not think about what my wrapped will look like anyway because i get too in my own head about my music listening habits. that said though like. the amount of loops of this album i have been though in literally just a few days would probably have had waterparks as my top artist for the year. i feel like the inside of my head is that michael buble lockdown tweet about this album like i cannot listen to other songs. if music were a physical thing i would put this album between my teeth and shake it like dogs do with a chew toy. i feel like my brain is exploding with the force of ten thousand suns. normal music enjoyer things

#good idea generator #i also never know how to cope when i hyperfixate on things that are not fictional media properties #fandom offers a pretty good outlet for the shrimp emotions. no equivalent for music you just have to listen to it 39736397 times #did manage to channel this energy into booking a retest for my road test bc i would like to drive & listen to the album #silly reason to book the test but whatever gets me there LOL

[ultimateplaylistmaker]

Pain Suffering, Art Book Too Expensive

#reasons i should be rich: afford danganronpa decade book #musings from the music manager

[thelawsofdaylight]

watching the bbc series with my mum has really reaffirmed how weird the pacing is. she's about halfway through the brick so i said cool we can watch the first 3 episodes probably! but it's now the end of episode 4 and we're still not up to where she is in the book!!!!!

#i generally kind of like the first few episodes of bbc mis #barring some awful atrocious decisions character wise it kind of stands up as a decent adaptation #then we hit episode 3/4 and... what the fuck #they very clearly start skimping on plotlines and it even *feels* rushed #my mum was saying the same and she doesnt even know whats supposed to happen next #(sidenote: yes my mum has managed to live for 60 years without ever having the plot of les mis spoiled for her. even having ME as a child) #and like!!!!! it didnt have to be this way!!!!! #building on my theory that bbc les mis is an adaptation of the les mis musical and not the book itself #there will be more posts like this btw as i rewatch it #i try so hard not to be a hater but not hating is so difficult when its so easy. to hate #i need a bishop myriel intervention #bbc mis

[littlequeenies]

1972 - American model Bebe Buell in NYC.

Photo 1) Scanned by Leith from (Diet) Coke & Sympathy blogspot from Bebe Buell's 2001 book "Rebel Heart. An American Rock'N'Roll Journey". You can buy it on Amazon.

Photo 2) Our scan from Bebe Buell's 2023 book "Rebel Soul. Music, Musings and Magic". You can buy it at Hozac Records website and Amazon.

Support your artists!

#Bebe Buell #model #author #Bebe model #Bebe author #1972 Bebe #Rebel Heart #The original Rebel Heart #Rebel Heart. An American Rock'N'Roll Journey #Rebel Soul #Rebel Soul. Music Musings and Magic #Rebel Soul: Music Musings and Magic #amazon #hozac records #hozac books and records #muse #manager #musician #singer #writer #songwriter #our scans #books we own #support artists