As I mentioned, I began my live performance promoters enterprise in 1982. I used to be pissed off with the shortage of concert events in our space.
My first live performance as a live performance promoter was a memorable one. A good friend who was actually into blues music wished me to convey a younger, new artist from Austin, Texas, to Kansas Metropolis. He had heard the artist play in a membership in Austin a number of months earlier. We obtained collectively and determined to attempt to do the present as a partnership. To make a really lengthy story quick, we by some means managed to seek out the proper cellphone numbers for the artist’s agent. We informed the agent we wished to guide a live performance with the artist, and thus the method was began.
Despite the fact that we have been rookies within the enterprise,
the nationwide agent wished his artist to carry out in our metropolis so he may begin constructing a nationwide following outdoors of Austin, Texas. We agreed to pay the artist the worth the agent wished for the present. We didn’t negotiate with the agent just because we didn’t know we may. I consider the fee was $1,250 plus two lodge rooms. We now had the date!
Each of us then did all the selling of the live performance…..we booked the corridor the place the present was to be carried out, ordered tickets, did the media (all the issues that we are going to train you in our live performance promoters course) and moved by what we thought the method was till the day we had the live performance. It was certainly an thrilling evening! We didn’t promote the corridor out, however we did promote 440 tickets at $8.00 every (bear in mind 1982 ticket costs). Even with our inexperience (leading to many errors), after we paid all of the bills, we profited $950, which we break up between us.
We additionally obtained to hang around with some nice new mates with whom we have now stayed in touch and accomplished enterprise through the years. Sure, there may be loyalty on this enterprise. The live performance was a rare occasion for us. Not solely was it our first, as a live performance promoter, however the artist who carried out confirmed glimpses of the famous person he was to grow to be only a few years later… his title…
