Wed, 27.07 ENGLISH WORKSHOP - Tour Management

Todays touring budgets have changed the way that tours are planned and carried out. Many tour-engineers, or other technical crew, find that they are facing double-assignments these days in order to compete.

This two-part course will cover the most important aspects of tour-management geared towards tour-crew who find themselves thrown into the position of  doubling up as a TM. Various procedures and documents will be addressed and presented with explanations of real-life situations, spiced up with some of the madness encountered on a real tour.

Dates:

27th July - 14:00-17:00
28th July - 14:00-17:00

Subjects include:

Introduction and overview
Information gathering and planning with managements and booking agents during early planning stages of a tour
‘Learning’ about your band
Proper budget planning
Creating riders and documents
Logistics: Transport and production gear
Finding the right crew
Rules of the road & etiquette
Visas, passports, vignettes
Hotels: who books what ?
Show advancing, technical
Show advancing with promoters
Both sides of the coin - What local crew needs from you and how to interact
Creating a tourbook
What are daysheets
Nightliner options
and much more……….

Registration here.