Touring: costs and marketing
As mentioned previously, touring costs money, and your outfit needs to be prepared to pay its own way once you leave home.
Touring: the sound situation
The idea of leaving home to hit the road on tour is what many musicians live for. In many ways it is the archetypal band activity: hanging with your mates, meeting new people and playing your music as if it is all you do.
The art of networking
Once you have crossed the line from wanting to be a musician to doing it, even on a very small scale, networking becomes the single most important business weapon you can possibly own.
What does a manager do? Pt2
One of the other key management functions that South Africans are used to is that of road managing. This is the term used to refer to what most managers do when they attend any live show by their clients.
What does a manager do? Pt1
This is a question that has about as many answers as people you ask. In an ideal world, where a large amount of business is conducted, artist managers are the people who handle the real business relations.
