Even making a phone call involved booking it ahead. It was a trunk call and at busy times, such as Christmas, you had to book three weeks in advance.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
Do not assume that a no-frills carrier is going to be the cheapest, particularly for late booking. One thing to look at is the airline alliance Web sites,
It is a major surprise that EDS won this business, ... This massive deal greatly aids visibility of revenue acceleration in 2001...and it assures EDS of handily topping this year the 24.9 billion total booking level in 1999.
I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.
The reality is, just like with adult books, a big name makes for an easier booking. Any time you're booking an author for a four-and-a-half to five-minute segment, if you're dealing with someone who's done television or comes with a track record, they are a known quantity. They know they have to have a funny or a touching story.
The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.
I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.
The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.
If you're an author and someone is booking you a flight, they should check with you before they buy the ticket to make sure when you want to arrive,
It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.
People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.
There's no argument for a quick spate of booking profits on the week as we're sitting close to current lows, but the diminishing prospect of a rate cut in the UK combined with improving cash yields across the Atlantic could make further notable gains difficult to find.
We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore.