Occasion
Gala dinners and awards
Long evenings with a fixed running order, where the entertainment's job is to hold a room that has been sitting for hours.
Charity galas, award ceremonies and industry dinners, typically two hundred to a thousand guests.
The entertainment usually sits either side of an auction or an awards sequence, which is the hardest slot in the category.
The three failures we see most
The auction overruns by thirty minutes and the act loses half its slot, having built a set that needs all of it.
The room is at its worst — full, warm, three courses in — and the act was chosen on a showreel filmed at eight o'clock.
We ask where in the running order the act sits and how long the auction is really likely to take.
We favour performers with a demonstrated ability to cut a set live without it showing.
Typically €5,000–20,000 for a stage set, less for reception work alongside it.
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.
Charity galas · Award ceremonies · Industry dinners
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.
- 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.
- Corporate eventsWhere the booker is professionally exposed and the audience did not choose to be there. The most demanding brief in the category.
- Luxury hotelsRecurring programming in front of guests who are themselves the standard. Consistency matters more than any single night.