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Live & touring · Lesson 4 of 6

Advancing a show: the email that prevents the disaster

18 minPractitionerFree

Advancing is the call or email in the week before the show where you confirm the practical details with the venue. It is not money, despite the name — it is the single highest-leverage thing you can do to make a show day work, and most problems on the night are things that were never advanced.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Advance a show properly a week out
  • Confirm the details that most often go wrong
  • Know who to ask for what at the venue
  • Arrive without surprises about times, gear or payment

Inside this lesson

  1. 1What to confirm
  2. 2Who you are talking to
  3. 3On the night

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In this lesson you will learn: Advance a show properly a week out. Confirm the details that most often go wrong. Know who to ask for what at the venue. Arrive without surprises about times, gear or payment.

About this lesson

Advancing is the call or email in the week before the show where you confirm the practical details with the venue. It is not money, despite the name — it is the single highest-leverage thing you can do to make a show day work, and most problems on the night are things that were never advanced.

What this lesson covers

Advance a show properly a week out

Confirm the details that most often go wrong

Know who to ask for what at the venue

Arrive without surprises about times, gear or payment

Inside this lesson

What to confirm

Who you are talking to

On the night

Take this lesson in the LUCY app

Open this lesson in LUCY and it rewrites itself around the music you make, reads itself aloud while you work, and answers questions about your own releases. Finish the track and the badge is yours. Free with a LUCY account.