With venues, find out how booked up they are and what their policies are for booking agents.
Whereas club promoters pride themselves in discovering unsigned talent and championing hometown heros, festival promoters typically book artists based on options presented to them by booking agents.
This is apparently down to Weatherall's booking agents who are insisting on "keeping the beard on their books".
The competition among booking agents is intense.
Hogarth admits there has been suspicion from booking agents.
But these days, publishers have become booking agents.
"I didn't know care homes actually had booking agents.
"That was what the label wanted, what the booking agents wanted.
The cancellations raised red flags with booking agents, who became concerned about Jelly's ability to pay.
Within a few weeks of the Shake outbreak, booking agents were clamouring for a Baauer show.
While the UK's booking agents will bring out the champagne, label executives must be weeping into their drinks.
