Artist Blogs

Add-ons provide musicians with a way to enhance their appeal and meet the needs of individual clients by offering additional services alongside their core service. You can utilise the Add-ons feature to offer multiple options, such as different band configurations, extra performances, personalised music arrangements, or extended performances. When you decide to offer Add-ons, we’ll ask you for a few additional details to ensure accurate quotes are provided to your clients. These quotes will consider multiple factors including; members involved in the Add-on, extra travel costs, and layover fees if applicable.

How do you start a wedding band? It's a question we’re asked regularly by working musicians looking for a new revenue stream and by musicians just out of college looking to create their first professional gig. The aim of this article is to provide musicians with a brief overview of all the aspects to consider when starting a wedding & events band.

Your Music Marmalade profile isn’t just a digital CV or the gateway to your next big booking; It’s the key to a new streamlined way of working where bookings can happen in just one click, and you can reduce your admin from a few hours a week to just a few minutes. This comprehensive guide takes you through each element of your artist profile to help you optimise your presence on the platform and make sure you get the most from your Music Marmalade account. Once you’ve set up your profile and account fully, all the booking requests you receive will be for dates you’re available on, in venues you’re happy to travel to, with fees you’re happy with, and from clients who are ready to book you. If this sounds like a good situation, please read on.

As working musicians when we’re out having fun playing gigs and making music, it can be easy to forget that we’re actually running a business. We wanted to write this article to provide musicians with a few key points to be aware of when you’re running your own business as a professional musician. We’ll cover the basics on tax, VAT, and some business jargon for musicians. Tax and VAT can be a complicated subject and each individual will have their own unique circumstances so do not take this article as tax advice. You should always consult with your accountant to be sure you’re paying the correct amount of tax and have set your business up in the correct way.