You approve the night. Choose the act, or fill it from the roster. We brief them, confirm it in writing, pay them, pay their super and send you one invoice a week. A free account, a budget you set, and nothing to organise.
Set your venue up once. From then on a night is a tap, a start time and send. Set your venue up once. From then on a night is a tap, a start time and send, and it comes back briefed and confirmed, usually the same day.
Most booking tools hand you a calendar, a chat window and an invoice run, and the work is still yours. A night with us is three taps in the app or one reply to an email. The rest never reaches your desk.
Nine things that would be on your desk, and are not. If you want the whole chain written out, read how live music booking actually works.
Set your venue up once and we open your account. From then on, a night is a tap, a start time and send, and we come back to you, usually the same day.
Briefed on your crowd, your volume and your finish time. Keep the one your regulars ask for, or rotate every week.
Every night confirmed before it happens, and the dates sync to the calendar you already use.
By phone, with a replacement already in motion. If nobody can cover it, the night does not run and you are not invoiced for it.
You never pay a performer directly and never chase a musician's invoice. Every performer is paid by us, on a set day every week.
Pay a sole trader musician yourself and their super is yours to pay, within seven business days. Book through us and it is ours. Paid every time, and you never see it.
Every Monday, one invoice for the week just played, due within seven days. Every night on one page, nothing to add up and nothing to chase.
A PDF invoice for every night, the same invoice as a spreadsheet file, and a summary by month, quarter or financial year your accountant can open and add up. Nothing to retype.
Week to week, no notice period, no exit fee, nothing renews. Stop the moment a night stops paying for itself.
Whatever you set. The account is free, and you choose the budget for each night before GST, with nothing bundled on top and nothing that renews on its own. The roster fills it, or you pick the act.
Your budget one night Plus GST. Three hours. No strings.
A performer you picked or the roster filled, booked and briefed by us. A complete booking on its own. Watch the night and judge it on your own numbers.
Book a night → Your pickYour call who plays Plus GST. At the budget you set
Browse the roster and ask for exactly who you want, at the budget you set for the night. Or set a weekly budget once and let the app fill the nights you run. Stop any week you like.
How it works → One-offsQuoted per night Quoted for the night
Functions, parties and anything that needs more than a three-hour set. Tell us what the night is and we will quote it properly.
Tell us about it →Running more than one night a week?
One budget for the week
Set a weekly music budget once and the app divides it across the nights you run, so a Friday and a Saturday share the number you had in mind. Change it any day. Nothing renews on its own.
Still weighing it up? We wrote about whether live music actually pays off for a venue, and what changes in the room when you swap a playlist for a live act.
A one-off fills the room once. The same night every week teaches people when to come.
In the first week the people in the room are the people who were coming anyway. By the fourth, some of them planned it. A night that moves around never gets there, because nobody builds a habit around a night they have to look up first.
That is why we would rather hold your Tuesday for a year than sell you something bigger once.
When you want one in the diary, booking live music in Perth takes a tap and a start time.
Over 500 gigs, eight years as a professional musician, and I have booked live music for Ascot Racing, Lake Karrinyup Country Club, The Landing and The Carine. The night shows up. That is the whole job.
Set your venue up in the app once. We open your account and you set up the direct debit, and from then on booking a night is tapping the night you want, choosing a start time and sending it. Choose the act, or fill the night from the roster, and we brief them and confirm it in writing, usually the same day. If you would rather not touch an app, reply to one email and we set the night up for you.
Whatever you set. The account is free, and you choose the budget for each night before GST. That covers the performer, matched to your room, booked, briefed and confirmed for the night. The roster fills it inside your number, or you pick the act yourself, and a night called off with 48 hours' notice is never invoiced. Larger one-off events are quoted for the night you need.
We do. You get one invoice from Open Dawn for the week, and we pay every performer ourselves, on a set day every week. Run three different acts across a month and you still deal with one supplier, and nobody chasing you about a bank transfer.
No. When a venue pays a sole trader musician directly, that musician's super is the venue's to pay. When you book through Open Dawn, we are the ones paying the performer, so their super is ours, and we pay it every time. You never handle it.
You get one invoice every Monday for the week just played. It is due within seven days, and you are never invoiced for a night called off with 48 hours' notice.
A PDF invoice for every night, the same invoice as a spreadsheet file, and a summary by month, quarter or financial year for your accountant. Every figure is plus GST and shown that way.
No. One night is a complete booking on its own, and nothing renews. Most venues start with a single night, watch the room and the till, then add a second once it works. Running more than one night a week, set a weekly budget once and the app divides it across the nights you run.
No. Everything is week to week with no lock-in. You keep the night while it is paying for itself and stop the moment it is not, with no notice period and no exit fee.
If an act pulls out, you hear it from us by phone within the hour, we go looking for a replacement and put whoever we find to you, and you never pay for a night we could not fill. If we cannot find anyone, the night does not run and you are not invoiced for it.
Yes. Live musicians, DJs, or both across a night, matched to your crowd.
Right across the Perth metro area. We run regular nights through the northern corridor, from Alkimos to Scarborough, and travel for the right room.
One night is a complete booking on its own, at the budget you set, plus GST. Watch the room and the till, then decide whether you want a second.
Book a free 15 minute call. A quarter of an hour on your room, your week and the easy wins, and you walk away with a plan to fill your slow nights. No pitch, no cost.
✓ First name and email are all we need. Pick your time on the next step.
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