u/Honka_Ponka

Hi! Very short backstory, I have a new band and we are just about ready to start playing shows. We have all had bad past experiences with promoters so we want to take a DIY route this time.

However, I've never organised an event on my own before and I feel a little lost. I have a few venues and a few bands in mind to join us on the bill, but I've no idea how to approach either and I'm especially unsure about the financial aspect i.e. how the venue and bands get paid, how to negotiate ticket splits, or whether or not we can even afford venue hire without a promoter. We are quite happy not to profit on this but we would like to recoup the potential venue hire fee and have some left over to offer the bands, especially because they might be travelling from neighbouring cities.

This is all very local-level grassroots stuff with other small bands so I am hoping we won't need to take a big financial risk organising it.

We are able to provide backline and sound tech too which relieves some pressure.

So, anyone know anything about this? Any tips or advice are appreciated cause I'm really interested in this and I want it to go well. Thanks :)

Tbh I just had one of the nicest days I've had in a long time - made an amazing girl my girlfriend, spent the night together, in the morning hung out and visited her friends and ate some nice food. At the time I felt so happy. Now I'm back home, it's 11pm, and I'm on the verge of tears thinking about all my awful memories of the past, how much I wish they never happened, what I should've done instead.

I should feel on top of the world rn. But all I feel is guilt and shame and horribleness over stuff that doesn't even affect me any more. I wish I could stop ruminating on the past and just focus on my decent present, but it comes back every day to haunt me no matter how much I want rid of it.

Idk what the point of this post is rly