How successful must you be to tour overseas as a musician?
Do you have to be well known? or can smaller bands do it? like in a sponsored group tour? How do you get involved?
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What type of musician? Classical soloist? Rock/pop/etc group?
You need to book plenty of gigs, pay for transportation (plane/cabs/vans/bus/etc), and make enough money to earn back the cost of the tour at least.
If you want a sponsor, you need to seem potentially profitable and most likely this will require some profitable fan base (teenage girls, for instance). First, though, you need to actually get the attention of the company you want to sponsor you (or the attention of a company in the first place).
I’d suggest you first start with creating music and getting people to listen and like it. You need to be able to hold steady gigs after that. That’s the first bridge to cross.
February 14th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
The transportation costs money, so you have to be pretty sure you are going to get revenue from ticket sales, etc. to pay for transportation and other costs. Otherwise, you won’t make money from touring.
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February 14th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
What type of musician? Classical soloist? Rock/pop/etc group?
You need to book plenty of gigs, pay for transportation (plane/cabs/vans/bus/etc), and make enough money to earn back the cost of the tour at least.
If you want a sponsor, you need to seem potentially profitable and most likely this will require some profitable fan base (teenage girls, for instance). First, though, you need to actually get the attention of the company you want to sponsor you (or the attention of a company in the first place).
I’d suggest you first start with creating music and getting people to listen and like it. You need to be able to hold steady gigs after that. That’s the first bridge to cross.
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February 14th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
When I was still with the band, we did 3 round the world tours, lasting from about 8 months to a year each. The money people allowed $100,000 PER PERSON for expenses for the year long gigs which covered everything. The sound/light contractor cost over ONE MILLION DOLLARS. AND we were not one of the best known bands, at least when we started out. The largest crowd we played to was 85000 in Wembley Stadium and the smallest venue was about 17,00 in Warsaw
You need to be famous enough to GET THE FINANFINANCING some unknown garage band wouldn’t have a chance at doing a world tour. We had a couple of records that did pretty well, so we had some street cred.
Of course you could also just pack up your instruments and talent and go to Euroope where you could do some busking on the streets and subway stations… There can be some good money in that and it gives you exposure.. I did it for 3 years and only quit to go to College because my parents were threatening to disown me if I didn’t get a degree in something. Or, you could do like the Beatles did.. go to Germany and play in the bars and cabarets until you worked out your performances.
For some reason you young people seem to think everything has to be done FOR you and I don’t understand it… Don’t you have ANY sense of ADVENTURE or does everything have to be SAFE and COMFORABLE for you? Either you get out and DO IT or you stay home and just dream about how things could have been different.
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