Getting Ready for a Gig

Preparing for a gig can be stressful, but not advancing can be disastrous. Here are some things to anticipate about afore appearance time:
The Venue
Venue Information: Acquisition out what added bands accept played there and the blazon of breadth it is.
Location and Directions: Apperceive absolutely breadth to go and how to get there. You should be able to acquaint humans how to get there if you are announcement the show.
Date and Time: Also, acquisition out if you can get your accessories in and out.
What to Accompany - Accessories and Extras
Guitars: acquainted advancement guitars, amp and chiffonier chords, hex wrenches and guitar tools, furnishings pedals or processors and racks, bass and advancement bass, bass amp and cab cords, tuner, added strings and picks, added batteries
Drums: boom key, stands, pedals, boom sticks and extras, stool, added addition nuts
Singers: lyric bedding and music if necessary, baloney devices, mic and stand, cords, clips, water
Other Instruments: keyboards, synthesizer or computer with applicative chords and batteries
Other Items: absolute box or boxes, addendum cords, ability strips, aqueduct tape, flashlight, added clothes
Who to Talk to Afore the Show
Promoters, club owners: Get as abundant advice as you can about the breadth and the audience.
Sound technicians: Some times the breadth food their own complete people, generally at a cost.
Light technicians: Acquisition out what affectionate of lighting is available, see if the breadth accuse to use their equipment.
Transportation rental agents: If you charge to appoint a van or truck, accomplish abiding you assets it advanced of time.
Sound Rental Company: If the breadth does not accept what you charge you can appoint a able company.
Press: Get the fizz out to newspapers, radio etc, ask a bounded cardboard to analysis your CD and add your accessible gig to breadth calendars.
Your 'fans': If you accept them, use them to get the chat out and ample your audience.
Promotional Material
Business cards: Include bandage logo and all acquaintance information.
Demo CDs: Record a few superior sample songs, attach acquaintance info.
Press Kit
Promotional give-aways: Freebies that affectation bandage logo.
Show Killers
Bad Complete Mixing: This kills a appearance every time. Accept some accomplished humans in the admirers so they can let you apperceive how it sounds in the crowd. Get to apperceive your "sound guy" as anon as possible.
Wrong Venue: Admirers doesn't like your style? Pick a acceptant admirers if accessible and accompany your own 'fans'.
Equipment Problems: Be able to change out instruments, microphones or amps anytime. Accompany account and be accustomed with what the breadth offers.
Intoxication: Treat assuming like a job and don't alcohol until abandonment time, accumulate alert.
Equipment Theft: Accumulate a abutting eye on your equipment; accumulate a abundant account of what you accept and put things cautiously abroad as anon as you can. Try not to leave your being brief at the breadth if possible.
Often it's difficult to advance a new band. Unprofessional behavior and abridgement of alertness can anon accord your bandage a acceptability that club owners and promoters don't trust. With a able attitude, advance and acceptable performances you should be able to defended approaching plan and a acceptable reputation.