How to Book a Rock Show

Summary: Finally, the big day has arrived. You roll out of bed at 3 in the afternoon, reach to the coffee table to grab your Black Sabbath wrist bands hidden in the midst of beer bottles and cold pizza, and jump to the clothes covered floor with your fist already raised to the sky. After standing in front of the mirror for an hour listening to Metallica's Black Album, you put tattered clothes on, throw your Gibson Les Paul and Marshall Half Stack in the back of your Honda Civic and drive into the sunset to make Rock n Roll history. After a gruesome sound check and frequent arguments about where to put the microphone, you finally look up to your masses of fans to find only a middle aged, slightly balding man standing in the back grumbling and pacing. With a broken heart not even Jimmy Page and all his black magic could heal, you drive home, dejected and alone asking, “If rock happens at a bar, but nobody's around to hear it, does it still rock?”

In this free video series, watch as rock n' roller and out of controller David Jackel teaches how to book a rock show. Are you tired of just playing for the bartender? These step by step music business lessons will turn you into a rock god in no time. Learn how to promote electronically, where to put fliers, how to write a review, how to get radio promotions, and spread the word by word of mouth. Unfortunately, playing rock shows is not as easy as “if you build it, they will come.” For a successful show, just as much work needs to go into promotion as practicing and the experts at Expert Village want to help.