Be very careful!!!

My band had our fingers burnt... badly!

Ours took 10%... but he was hopeless. Double booking us, booking us, then not bothering to tell us a gig was cancelled...trying to get nasty little lines in our contracts... (which I was the one to read and caught him out each time... he used to try and use flowery written language to bamboozle us, fortunately though I'm dyslexic I have a very good eye for contracts, and deciphering their meanings!)

Watch your contracts, make sure that the contract protects you, as well as the event organiser.. eg... that if they cancel you within so many hours of the gig, they pay you a certain percentage of the gig fees... or if it is last minute, they pay you the whole fee. And watch out for the little gem our agency tried to put in one of ours... that if for ANY reasons (including illness, accidents etc) we didn't turn up we were liable to pay the ORGANISERS a percentage of our fees to them! CRAZY!

Be careful!

Ella