posted by admin on May 4

When it comes to running a successful entertainment agency, you need to know exactly what it’s like to work as an entertainer. Without such experience, one could easily book a ten piece band into a venue lacking the stage space required for such a large group of musicians. You see, the benefit of experience means the right questions are asked in order to make sure everything runs smoothly and a fair price is being asked for a group of musicians or solo artist to perform.
There are other conditions too which the inexperienced booking agent may overlook such as the distance from a performers home town to the venue. Will they need their travel costs factoring in to the final price? Will they need to arrange over night accommodation and should this be paid for by the client? An inexperienced booking agent is more likely to say ‘yes, yes, yes’ to any old questions in order to secure a booking regardless of whether ‘yes’ is the correct answer or not. An inexperienced booking agent is likely to have a poor relationship with both their performers and customers.
Experience goes a long way in the entertainment industry, and knowing what it’s like to perform on the pub band circuit helps the managers of www.FunctionCentral.co.uk provide one of the UK’s premier online entertainment agencies. They know what their clients want and what their musicians deserve. Now in it’s seventh year, Function Central only allow accomplished and professional acts from up and down the UK in to their directory. They book live music for over 2000 events a year and the feedback from both acts and clients is overwhelmingly positive. If you’re a performer in need of work or are looking at booking a band, visit www.FunctionCentral.co.uk.
By Carl Liver


