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The Tour Book: How to Get Your Music on the Road
Author(s): Andy Reynolds (Author)
- Publisher: Cengage Learning
- Publication Date: July 1, 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 1598633716
- ISBN-13: 9781598633719
Book Description
Live music is a huge industry, and playing live is an integral part of the success for any musician, band or artist. The Tour Book provides practical advice, hints and tips on every aspect of putting on a live show – rehearsing, equipment, travel, accommodation, booking and promoting shows, sound checking, contracts, taxation, working abroad and marketing. Featuring interviews with the industry’s key figures and contemporary artists and musicians, The Tour Book is the only book to contain the distilled advice of these artist managers, booking agents, talent buyers and very successful artists and bands.
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About the Author
Andy Reynolds is an international concert tour manager and audio engineer, working on an average of 200 shows a year for such bands as All American Rejects, House of Pain, Machine Head, Nightmares On Wax, Pavement, Roots Manuva, Super Furry Animals, Skunk Anansie, Squarepusher and The White Stripes. Andy has also toured with such acts as U2, Whitney Houston, Manic Street Preachers and the Foo Fighters. His touring experience encompasses stadiums, arenas, theatres, pubs, bars, clubs, outdoor festivals, rooftops, subway stations, cruise ships, mountain sides and very, very muddy fields. He is a Senior Lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University has taught sound engineering and modern tour management at Liverpool University and City College Manchester.
