Cluster Booking Nightmare

I discovered last night that the booker for a club my band is playing this evening has booked another 3 bands in addition to the 2 bands our band had secured for the evening!

The arrangement was that my band would play and put the evenings entertainment together. We got 2 other bands who all have been advertising the event for about a month now.

The booker must not keep a very organized calendar and didn't realize until the last minute the double booking problem. So tonight should be interesting when 6 bands all show up with gear. Glad I'm not in charge of this. There will probably be a lot of unhappy musicians tonight.

This should be interesting. I'm surprised doc540 has done a drive-by "dumbass" on this thread yet.

So many dumbasses, so little time.

Well it turned pretty good after all. Only one other band of the extra 3 that were booked showed up. Perhaps they were successfully cancelled or rescheduled, I didn't ask.

When I got to the club the first extra band was already set up and they ended up starting at about 8:30PM which only threw the rest of the schedule off by about a half hour.

The night went smoothly and we made a whopping $30 for the whole band! Maybe if we invest that money we can get a high yeild return someday LOL!

Don't feel bad, we had one a couple of months ago where we were paid by a "$5 cover" . A small venue but there about 50 there all evening. They claimed the take was $105.00 (door man was the owner's brother). They "felt bad" so they paid us $125. We later verified that 24 of our people actually paid.
That's ok, we passed the word to every band we know. All they can get now is punk garage bands.