Tips on Canceling a Rock Show

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Hi. This is David Jackel on behalf of Expert Village and I'm here to talk to you about handling cancellations when you're booking a show at a rock club. Now cancellations are always bad news. Nobody wants to deal with a cancellation because that means it's a change in plan and it inconveniences everybody. So first of all, don't you cancel unless you really have to. Being sick is not enough of a good reason. If you're really sick, if you have the flu and you can't stand up and you can't sing or something like that, fine. Then cancel. Or if there's been a death in the family, then you cancel. Otherwise, you have to soldier on and do the show because if you flake out, you're going to inconvenience the club and you're going to inconvenience other bands and then you're not going to be invited back. When you're dealing with another band, let's say you're booking a show, you're putting together the bill yourself, and then last minute some band cancels, well the way to deal with that is to make sure you have a back-up band in advance. So after you've booked the show, and you've put together all the bands, talk to someone else and say, "Hey I put together a bill, but in the event that someone backs out, would you be interested?" And that way, if someone backs out, you have a back-up right away and you're not in trouble with the venue. Now venues can also cancel. And that's very unfortunate because there's not much you can do. After that, the show is over unless you want to transfer a show which I'll talk to you about later on. But in that case, what you want to do is talk to the venue right in the beginning when you're booking a show and tell them "what do we do if you need to cancel?" Work out a plan where they're going to call you right away. You want them to have a phone number they can reach you at any time. That way, if they decide to cancel the show, you'll know in advance and you won't be on your way there. This happened to me once before when I had to drive two hours to the snow to a show to find out that it had been canceled. And if we had worked out a plan in advance, like if I had a phone number for the guy, this wouldn't have been a problem.

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