We Will Book Your Live Shows!

Playing live is at the core of every musician’s world, and there’s no better way of connecting with existing and potential fans that getting up on stage and baring your soul. It’s what drives the artist/audience relationship.

Yet booking shows can be an arduous task, and is one that many musicians aren’t comfortable with.

Thankfully there are booking agents whose whole day is doing just that. However, since most agents are paid a percentage of what the artist is paid per show (typically 10%), unless the artist is selling a decent number of tickets there’s little incentive for an agent to sign a new and developing art.

Also taking into account the countless hours of routing, finding avails and having the relationships that can move the needle and the 10 to 20 emails or more on each show.

The touring financials of a successful band are fascinating, and worthy of a deeper dive, but for instance, 15 shows x 1,000 tix each @ $25 = $375,000 gross, of which the agent would make $37,500. There’s money in them thar hills!

CEN has developed an alternate model that works for developing bands who aren’t ready, or able, to sign with a booking agent yet. For an affordable monthly retainer one of our inhouse agents will work as an agent for hire, helping develop a strategy for touring, then reaching out to clubs and promoters to book shows on the artist’s behalf. Once shows are booked our ‘agent’ will contract and connect all the dots to make sure all aspects of the show are communicated and the performance is executed for maximum potential.

And if the relationship and act develops to the point where they are selling tickets, our agent can move to the more traditional 10% model.