Occasion
Corporate events
Where the booker is professionally exposed and the audience did not choose to be there. The most demanding brief in the category.
Conferences, client dinners, staff celebrations and internal events, from thirty people to two thousand.
The buyer is usually not an events professional, and is booking entertainment for the second or third time.
The three failures we see most
The entertainment is booked to fill a gap in the schedule rather than to do a job, and it shows.
Nobody establishes what is off-limits, and a performer makes a joke about a restructure that was announced that morning.
The event overruns and the entertainment is the thing that gets cut, having already been paid for.
We ask what the evening is for — reward, client relationship, an awkward hour to fill — because the answer changes the recommendation more than the budget does.
We ask what is off-limits, in writing, and pass it to the performer as part of the brief rather than as a warning.
Most corporate briefs land between €2,000 and €8,000 for the performer. Our fee is quoted separately and before we build the shortlist.
Our fee is separate, flat, set by the brief, and quoted before we build a shortlist — so it does not move with which performer you choose. How it works.
Conferences · Client dinners · Staff events · Office celebrations
Describe the event. We will recommend two or three performers who fit it, with the reasoning written down — and tell you plainly when the answer is none of them.
- Gala dinners and awardsLong evenings with a fixed running order, where the entertainment's job is to hold a room that has been sitting for hours.
- Brand activationsWhere the performance carries a message and a brand's name is attached to whatever happens in the room.
- Stage showA single held moment for the whole room. The format most often booked for the wrong reason, and the one with the most to lose.