What is it?
Our exclusive artist management and development program is your fast-track to success in the private events market. It's the closest thing to a record deal that a function band can get! We pay to produce all your promotion and marketing materials and work with you to grow your band / act into a successful long term business, securing regular well paid work at weddings, corporate events and private parties and as well as through our network of gig venues.
A typical function band on our development program might secure between 50-120 private event bookings a year.
Members get on average 50-70% more bookings from Alive Network than standard members of our agency and 10-20% more money net per event. This is because we help you look and sound better than the competition, and provide you with the best advice on how to develop your act for the current market.
You'll produce your promotional materials in our world class recording studios The Silk Mill. You get priority rank on our website, and you'll be first in line for all the opportunities that arise as we source new business. We provide professional business advice and support, helping you to harness your potential and map out a path to achieve your goals. You are 100% in control of your own direction and your gigs belong to you.
In return for the above, you agree to become an exclusive Alive Network artist - with all your private events work booked through us. You say where you want to perform and what you want your fees to be, but we'll manage your booking diary and secure work to your best advantage. We'll also charge a slightly higher commission on your bookings to help cover the extra costs of providing the program. We do this at our risk, so if you decide to leave Alive, you won't owe us anything.
There's no contract with us, you're not tied to anything other than the bookings you secure, and you are free to pursue other opportunities with your original music career.
Sound good? It really is!
Get in touch and fast-track your music career now.
PS: You can still apply to join Alive Network on a standard membership here
Who is it available to?
Our development program is open to artists of all styles who best represent 'what our current client base is looking for'. In most cases this is musicians who perform popular music for private events.
You must be an act who wants (and for whom we can realistically secure) a minimum of 50 bookings a year - so that we can recoup our investment into you, and you must be willing to work with Alive Network as your exclusive agent.
We are actively looking for the following artist types:
- 3/4/5 piece rock and pop bands
- Solo acoustic singer guitarists
- Solo singer pianists
- Mumford & Sons style acoustic folk bands
- Singer / Live Musician & DJ combos
- Jazz trios
- String Quartets & Trios
If you are not an act listed above, you're still welcome to get in touch as every request is considered on its individual merits.
Anyone can apply for normal agency membership here.
How can I join?
New artists
If you're a new artist to Alive Network and you're interested in joining on our exclusive management & development program, please complete the 'register your interest form' on this page, or call 01782 740 839
If you want to join as a regular member of the agency, please go to the join page and complete an online application.
Existing Alive Network Artists
If you already work with Alive Network and you're interested in upgrading your membership into our exclusive development program, please call Laura or Jim 01782 740 839 to discuss your eligibility.
What will I earn?
A typical 4-piece function band on our development program might secure between 50-110 private event bookings a year, for between £250 - £350 per member AFTER travel costs.
Our most successful long-term bands earn over £100,000 a year.
In your first year or two, you might need to budget more of your fee to cover initial set up costs like hiring or purchasing your own PA, lighting and transport.
Of course, your earning potential directly relates to how much effort you're prepared to make, the nature of your act, and how strong your profile is compared to other similar acts. Whilst the development program provides a large investment from Alive Network into your marketing materials, as well as advice and support to develop your act, we can still only sell your act based on what it actually is.
Our most successful acts work very hard to keep themselves fresh and develop, quality controlling their repertoire, performance and equipment to ensure they build a solid reputation and plenty of referral work.
Am I tied to a contract?
Each booking is confirmed with a legally binding contract between you and your customer but you are NOT contracted to Alive Network as an exclusive artist. We will charge a higher commission rate on your bookings for as long as you're a member of the development program. We might review the need for a formal contract in the future, but so far only two acts have ever left our development program and so we've never needed any formal protection.
Aside from an exclusive agency representation agreement, the only other big condition of membership is that the name of your act and the promotional materials we create for you under the development program, remain exclusive to Alive Network. If you are already an established band with a reputation then you might prefer to join this program under a different name so that should you ever decide to leave and continue on your own, you can re-use the name you'd previously built up.
Because there's no formal management contract you can leave Alive Network at any time (you'd need to honour all your existing bookings) - but if you carried on working as a function artist (even if this was with Alive Network as a regular member), then you'd need to do so under a different name, and re-create your own promotional materials. This is to protect us from acts who might join simply to get the best promo materials and 'insider advice', then try to go back to standard membership on a lower commission rate.
What control do I have?
Although you're applying to join our development program, we consider that we work for you! Just like with a traditional artist management deal, you appoint us to help you achieve your commercial potential and if you're not happy with our work, you can walk away (please see previous tab about contract and conditions).
Our relationship will be based on mutually agreed goals and you will have full say into everything you do. We might offer advice and suggest a direction which we feel will help you best achieve your goals, and then help to steer you moving forwards, but ultimately you must by happy with and agree to everything.
Once bookings are confirmed they belong to you, and we can't take them away or replace members of your band. We promise to treat you with care and respect, and in fact this program would not work if we didn't have a good working relationship with our acts, so that's an extremely important goal for us.
Does it cost anything?
There is no cost to join Alive Network or our exclsuive development program. For acts on the development program we charge a slightly higher commisison rate on bookings in order to recoup our investment into promo and costs.
What is the catch?
So if I join your development program there's no cost me to me, I get a £5000 investment upfront from Alive into my promo materials, I'll get more gigs for more money than your standard agency members, and there's no management contract to tie me into this for any specific time frame?
Sounds to good to be true!
There's no catch - it really is a great offer!
This program works for you and us because IT WORKS FOR YOU AND US! The more gigs you get the more commission we earn. The more money you earn per gig, the more commission we earn. There couldn't be a more perfect basis for a partnership!
Our development program is tried and tested, and as long as we mutually agree achievable goals from the start, then everyone wins.
You literally have nothing to lose.
Obviously the agreements over exclusivity and promo materials place conditions on your membership, and if you're a new artist, at some point within your first 12 months you'll probably need to buy your own PA & transport if you don't have them already - but this deal really is risk free.
Register your interest now to get started.
