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. Someone 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. My band hasn’t had a single back-office surprise since.
I built Stage Right HQ because the Christian music space deserves better than generic business services from people who’ve never been on a tour bus. This is personal. I’ve been where you are.
“I’ve spent 25 years on stage. I know what it costs when the back-office breaks down — and I know how to make sure it never does.”
