Live entertainment for venues

A wedding is booked once. A venue is booked fifty times a year, and the roster it runs on is usually a handful of numbers in a phone belonging to whoever books the music. When that person leaves, or the regular act stops answering, the whole thing has to be rebuilt from scratch.

The value of a directory here is depth rather than novelty. Being able to find three more musicians who play the same thing as the one who cancelled is worth more than discovering someone new.

• Resident and rotating DJs, which is the bulk of weekend booking for most bars.
• Live bands for a specific night, where the draw is the act rather than the venue.
• Solo musicians — a pianist, a jazz player, an oud player — for dinner service, where the job is atmosphere rather than attention.
• Sound and lighting for venues without a permanent setup, or for one-off nights that outgrow the house system.

Fann handles a booking as a single event with a date, which suits a one-off well and a weekly residency less well. For a standing arrangement, the practical approach today is to agree the terms with the performer directly and use Fann to find them, keep the conversation in one place, and cover the weeks the regular cannot make.

If recurring bookings would genuinely change how you use this, say so. Fann is small enough that what venues actually need still shapes what gets built.

No commission on bookings, and nothing taken from the performer. A venue books on the same planner subscription as anyone else, which unlocks contact details and messaging across the whole directory rather than per booking.