I've just started co-running a club again and for our first year of operation we've asked acts to come and play that are well known and will bring in an audience, hopefully this will get us something of a following and then we can look at booking the not so well known as we'll have somesort of trust with our audience.
I also agree with Ruth, as persons who run events we don't like booking people from listening to CD's, it's more reliable to get the live experience and it all sort of falls back on that old cliche of being in the right place at the right time.
90% of the people we have booked are people we've caught on the off chance and become...... fans I suppose! (Groupies in some cases!)

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