When I’m not blogging or being in a band myself, I work for an event promotion company so I know first hand the mistake bands make when approaching a promoter for a gig or support slot.

We don’t need your life history.  Promoters are busy people so my advice would be to keep it brief when approaching them, have a short sharp opening gambit then provide the following bullet points

• Band name
• Genre
• Influences (which bands do you sound like)
• Area: Where is your ‘homebase’?
• Contact tel no
• Email: (if messaging on Facebook etc.)
• Facebook/Twitter URLs (they’ll want to check out the size of your social following)
• Website URL
• Listening link: Your Soundcloud URL or similar. Give just one track, that’s all they’ll need in the first instance
• YouTube channel URL.  You do have live footage on YouTube don’t you?
• Abbreviated press quotes.

More established bands might want to state how many fans they are able to attract to both home and out of town gigs.

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