Open Dawn is a Perth live music booking agency built for hospitality. We put professional musicians and DJs in venue rooms, and we carry everything around the booking: the roster, the confirmations, the admin and the performer payments.
Live music is not a cost centre. Run properly, it's the best reason to pick your venue over the one up the road.
Most live music is organised one gig at a time: find a musician, agree a fee, hope they show, pay them, then start again next week. The music is the easy part. The work around it is what wears venues down, and it is exactly the work a venue manager should not be doing at ten o'clock on a Monday.
So we run the whole chain instead. The act chosen for the room, booked, briefed and confirmed. The roster coordinated so the night is always covered. One invoice, with every performer paid by us. When the organising is carried properly, everyone wins: the venue, the performer and the crowd.
You can see what that looks like on the venues page, how it works and the pricing.
Yannai has over 500 gigs of experience and a cancellation rate under 1% across the nights he has booked. Reliability is the whole product in this industry, and everything else is built on top of it.
Week to week, no lock-in contracts, a price quoted before you book. If something stops paying for itself, you should be free to stop it. We'd rather earn the next week than sign you into it.
Booking, roster, confirmations and performer payments handled by the same people. When one team owns the whole chain, nothing gets lost in a handover and nobody rings you to sort it out.
Open Dawn is run by Yannai Goldberg. When you call, that's who answers. Direct, straightforward, and honest about what we can and can't do for your room.
We work with pubs, bars and venues right across the Perth metro area, from the northern suburbs like Alkimos and Scarborough through to the wider city.
The easiest way to understand Open Dawn is to watch a night happen in your own room. A three-hour set is $360 plus GST, or $350 a night if you run two or more in the same week.