Skip to main content

Maverick Ad

Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Cover Stories
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Cashbox Legacy Awards
  • Past Covers
  • Weekly Archive
How To Make A Show If Everything Is There?

Breadcrumb

  • Home
  • How To Make A Show If Everything Is There?
Peter Åstedt
Fri Oct 28, 2022
Peter Åstedt

It’s not hard to make a show in your head and everything is there. I would even be the best performer in the world if you just let me have an unlimited budget and complete control. My show would have singing dinosaurs on a real life scale and more pyrotechnic than Kiss or Rammstein. I would just perform my own songs, but since I’m not that good of a singer we would require at least twenty-five people and guest stars that would help me perform by songs. Also, a good sound technician can handle Autotune in any circumstances. It will be a story during the whole show about my journey in the music industry and all the artists that I have met and worked with over the years.

Sounds good?

It would be a spectacle, I promise. The problem here is that, of course, if I would take this to a festival or any gig place for that sake, they probably would say no. You would need a gigantic stage and production around it. Even if I paid for all the production myself many would be skeptical to bring this show in. Of course, it will be good, even if I can’t sing or play all the things around it will be just worth seeing. The music is coming far behind the show.

This is what I get so many times from artists while we are picking artists for the showcase. They are new and think that a show is like doing anything they have seen on TV with Lady Gaga. Their demands are back projections and large stages with a capacity of twenty people. It’s unrealistic. A showcase is when you sell it forward to festivals, smaller and bigger gig places, and such. If we don’t have this equipment, they don’t have it. To be honest, even the biggest festivals in the world won’t really have the capacity for these artist demands, maybe if you are the headliner. So even trying to have these demands in a normal situation is crazy and unrealistic.

Here is the point, yes if you are Lady Gaga or Rammstein you can get these productions and your show will look spectacular with just what is happening on the stage. Though you must work yourself up. Your show has to fit in a small pub in the beginning and when you are getting bigger you can grow with the show until you get to the big stages as a superstar. It’s impossible though to start as a superstar.

I guess all these TV shows like America’s Got Talent, The Voice or American Idol are all guilty of doing that mistake. They take a small unknown artist onto the big stage, feed them with all production and large audiences and then in the end just spit them out back to the local pub where the stage is smaller than their dressing room in the TV production.

First rule. You need a show that can be up and down-scaled depending on the gig place. Your extra things should be so small that you can travel with them and not have to rent them at each place you go. Your show must be so good that you can rely on the music and not on back projections, lightning, and other stuff. You need to be so good that you can entertain on a small stage with no particular light and just amps for the instruments. When you handle that we can start discussing upgrading the show after the more fans you are getting in.

Editor’s Note: Peter Åstedt has been working in the music industry for over 35 years. He has started record labels, distribution systems, and publishing companies. Peter also runs several major showcase festivals and is an advisor for INES and co-founder of MusicHelp/Discover Sensation. He has worked with the Top Ten most streamed songs and had music on both the Olympics and Super Bowl. Peter has currently taken up the seat of Station Manager of Cashbox Radio, working with MD, PD and station owner, Sandy Graham. In 2021, he worked as the European Consultant for Heal the Earth – An Earth Day Celebration. His latest venture is a new Showcase Festival in Sweden, Future Echoes futureechoes.se/. Peter is a Managing Partner and Editor of the legendary Record World International.

Features
Music
Peter Åstedt
Month: Sep 2021
Laura Fernandez, Glenn Crosse & George Koller Come Together in… Sep 17
Chris de Burgh Releases a Fabled Tale & Folklore Favourite in… Sep 17
THAT Eric Alper! Sep 17
A Successful Mastering the Music Business (MMB) in Romania for 2021 Sep 10
Digital Can’t Deliver The Live Experience Sep 10
They Called it Puppy Love – but Donny Osmond is Back on the Charts… Sep 10
And We Are Live At The Moonshine Café! Sep 10
Songstress Tonia Evans Cianciulli Sings Praise for Her Divine… Sep 03
Elton John – Still Standing with new hit single “Cold Heart” Sep 03
The Music Industry Starts to Open Up Sep 03
Month: Aug 2021
Blues Alt-Country Soft-Rock Duo Fresh Breath Ask 'How Did I… Aug 27
The Magic Of A Good Songwriter Aug 27
Vince Gill - The Hockey-Loving Okie Aug 27
“First Lady of the Guitar” Liona Boyd Releases Retro-Disco Remix of… Aug 27
The Current Threats to the Music Industry Aug 20
BTW - Elton John & Dua Lipa, James Baley, Charles Spearin, The… Aug 20
Jesse Colin Young – These Dreams of You Aug 20
BTW - Kawala, Neela, The Wilderness of Manitoba, Brittany Howard/… Aug 13
Americana Singer Jordan Page Encourages Unity with Inspiring New… Aug 13
How To Get Good Distribution Aug 13

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹ Previous
  • …
  • Page 28
  • Page 29
  • Page 30
  • Page 31
  • Current page 32
  • Page 33
  • Page 34
  • Page 35
  • Page 36
  • …
  • Next page Next ›
  • Last page Last »

CEO/PUBLISHER/EDITOR IN CHIEF
SANDY GRAHAM

email:sandygrahamemg@gmail.com 

Canadian Journalists:

Contributing Journalist - Canada and Global
Don Graham
email: dongrahamwriter@gmail.com

Contributing Journalist - Canada and Global
Lisa Hartt
email: lisahartt87@hotmail.com

Contributing Journalist - Canada 
Michael Williams
email: greydread@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

International Journalists:

Contributing Journalist - Sweden
Malin Osth
email: malin@musicdays.se

Contributing Journalist - Sweden
Jonas Tancred
email: jonas@musicdays.se

Contributing Journalist - USA
Rob Durkee 
email: rockster2746@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web Developer/Technical Support
Chris Wardman

email: info@chriswardman.com
website: chriswardman.com

Cashbox Cover Design and Graphic Artist
Jain McMillan

email: jainmcmillan@gmail.com

Contributing Photographer 
Tracey Savein - South Paw Productions
southpawproductions@rogers.com

 

 

 

Footer menu

  • Home
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Cashbox Archive
  • Issue Archive
  • Past Covers