Why I Started This
Running the show starts long before load-in.
The show is the easy part. What most people never see — what happens in the hours and weeks before you step on stage — is what determines whether a band survives. The financials. The payroll. The vendor invoices. The receipts piling up somewhere on the bus. When that stuff is handled well, you never notice. When it isn't, it costs you. Sometimes everything.
I learned that the hard way. People we trusted to handle our back-office let things slip — quietly, for an entire year — and by the time we found out, the damage was already done. I took over the books myself after that. I've been doing it ever since, and my band hasn't had a single back-office surprise since.
I started Stage Right HQ to help close that gap — the space between what a career manager handles and what a CPA does. That's where most of the damage happens, and most artists don't realize it until it's already too late.
as a professional touring musician
and payroll for a touring band
Not a large company. Me.
