James takes his band, Metropolis, seriously. He treats it like a business. In this episode we learn how he got that crucial success mindset, why he concentrates on quality rather than quantity, his approach to networking and how that has landed him more and better clients and how he embraced video and social media to create the bookings breakthrough so many bands would kill for. Listen closely as James shares some killer marketing strategies that you can easily use yourself tomorrow.

Baz Edmondson runs The Benedicts, a 4 piece party band. He's an ex heavy metal band front man who set up the band 18 months ago and has some stellar success relatively quickly. In the last 3 months of 2013 his band were out gigging at weddings almost every weekend. Listen in to find out some of the simple marketing, sales and promo stuff he's been doing that's been getting results.

This week we talk to Martyn Strange of UK band Get Funked. Martyn has built Get Funked from the ground up and now can boast to be the band leader and manager of the one of the UKs most successful cover bands. He is very focused on getting his band perfectly set up for high profile corporate and private events while at the same time always looking to see how he can better sell and market his band. There’s some big lessons in here.

Del & Brad discuss the delicate issues of how to handle the people in the band, how to structure your band to make it more manageable, less stressful and more profitable. Listen to Ideas and experiences from the sharp end of gigging in a covers band.

Brad & Del, the gig getting gurus discuss making your web site work for you, the art of following up on enquiries and how to handle not getting the booking.

Del Cotton and Brad Lazarus, successful businessmen in band marketing, give more pointers and tricks on how to get gigs and being able to increase your clientele. The key to any success is hard work, but what good is hard work if you are not doing the right thing? This is a good opportunity to build your marketing plan. Listen from the masters of gigging.

Brad and Del discuss some of the challenges facing gigging musicians and how to get round them.