With such great popularity during our last Workshop, Noize Fabrik is happy to present the Tour Management Workshop for the second time.

This workshop is a great introduction to tour-management for crew facing double-duty assignments in todays live environment.

Todays touring budgets have changed the way that small to mid-sized tours are planned and carried out. Many tour-engineers, or other crew, find that they are facing double-assignments these days in order to compete.

The two-evenings will cover the most important aspects of tour-management geared towards tour-crew who find themselves thrown into the position of doubling up as a TM. Various procedures and documents will be addressed and presented with explanations of real-life situations, spiced up with some of the madness encountered on a real tour.

Please note that this workshop is also ideal for anyone interested only in Tour management.

Thomas Neidhardt has been a professional sound-engineer since 1988. He has toured much of this planet and mixed many concerts from small club events to huge festivals.
For the past 10 years he has also taken on the additional role of Tour-manager on mid-sized tours due to ever-changing financial demands of the industry.

Input from last months workshop:
"Thank you very much for the very detailed presentation of a TM’s job; for have-to’s and no-go’s and all the example sheets of riders, tour book, day sheets etc. I’ve seen and heard a lot of this before but your workshop was a good reminder of the important things to check and a great update on long forgotten stuff. Splitting it on two nights was just right, since it was quite some input."

Subjects covered during this workshop:
• Information gathering and liaising with managements and booking agents during early planning stages of a tour
• Proper budget planning
• Creating riders and documents
• Logistics: Transport and production gear
• Rules of the road & etiquette
• Visas, passports, vignettes
• Show advancing, both pre and during tour
• Both sides of the coin - What local crew needs from you and how to interact
• Creating a tourbook
• Nightliner options

and many other subjects