Guides
Everything below is written from the band’s side of the stage, by three people who have spent more than eighty years between them playing in this town. Every figure has a source at the bottom of its page and we fetched each one before quoting it. We do not review other bands and we do not rank them, and we do not claim to have played a venue we have not played.
The timeline built backwards from the venue curfew, which is the only fixed point in the evening.
Four cues, not a playlist, and what to do when the band does not know your song.
Twenty seconds per introduction, and the song intro is what ruins most entrances.
Pick the moment first, then the song. The other way round is why ceremony music goes wrong.
The room and the weather decide this more often than taste does. Austin makes that unusually true.
A room-flip problem disguised as a music problem, in a space nobody has soundchecked.
Every announcement a reception needs, in order, with who each one is really aimed at.
Usually no, with a real exception. The limit is attention rather than ability.
“The venue has sound” means four different things and only one of them runs a band.
Most venue bans are about cleanup, not fire. Three published policies, three different answers.
Ask how many circuits reach the stage, not how many outlets are on the wall.
The path from the van decides the time, not the amount of gear.
A dozen questions sorted by what goes wrong, with what a good answer sounds like.
The two biggest sources differ by more than double on the same question. Here is why, and what moves your number.
If you would rather just ask, the questions and answers page covers how this band in particular works, and the setlist is published in full, all 70 songs with who recorded them.
Ask about the setlist, the show, or what we need from your venue. If you want a date looked at, I can send it straight to the band.