Promoters - Tips for searching Gig Promoters

Our Gig Promoter listings will enable you to find both established and newer promoters based across the UK who organise band nights, showcases, all-dayers, festivals and other events.

Depending on whether you want to book a local gig or a UK tour, you can search our Promoter listings by region and/or city and town to find promoter contacts putting on events in that area.

Tips for contacting Promoters

Before getting in touch with Gig Promoters we strongly suggest that you take 10 minutes or so to look at the website and/or social media profiles and read our listing details thoroughly to ensure the promoter in question caters for your style of music.

Please also read our blog ‘Get The Lowdown on Gig Promoters’ here - http://members.theunsignedguide.com/blog/467 so you are clued up on how various gigs and nights work financially and in terms of bringing an audience, and to ensure you don’t fall into the ‘pay to play’ trap.

Remember, promoters receive a large amount of enquiries from bands and artists wanting to make bookings so make sure you double check the info in our listing about how they prefer to receive music submissions so it has the best chance to being heard. Allow at least 6 weeks for a response, it is fine to politely follow up after this.

What’s in a Promoter listing?

• Contact details
• Social media profiles (where applicable)
• Gig Booking contact name(s)
• Genres they specialise in
• How regularly they promote gigs/organise events, plus types of nights & events they put on
• Venues they use regularly
• Where you can submit demos and what format they prefer to receive

NB. Please note The Unsigned Guide can only publish the contact details and information that each individual company gives us permission to make publicly available so the level of detail in some listings can vary. We do our best to encourage companies and individuals listed to give as much info as possible to make sure the listings are helpful to you.

Further reading & advice

Follow the links below to documents & articles that we think can further help you covering how to best approach promoters, mastering a great biog to send out, and info on the promoter – band relationship:

Pay to Play or Play for Pay http://members.theunsignedguide.com/blog/540

Get the lowdown on gig promoters http://members.theunsignedguide.com/blog/467

Top 5 mistakes bands make in their biogs http://members.theunsignedguide.com/blog/510

The Unsigned Guide’s Top Tips for Approaching Music Companies http://members.theunsignedguide.com/blog/331

BPI Music Industry Maps http://members.theunsignedguide.com/category/management/ytmi/316