How to Film a Live Session Video for Your Music

How to record and film a live session video, edit it, and cut it into clips you can use to promote your music and win bookings.

How to Make a Low Budget Music Video That Looks Great

Ideas, planning, filming permissions, kit, editing and release tips for UK musicians making a music video on a small budget.

Gig Poster Design: How to Make One That Gets People Through the Door

How to lay out a gig poster so people see who, where, when and how to buy tickets, with print sizes, QR code tips and printing basics.

How to Get More Gigs: A Booking Guide for UK Musicians

How UK musicians can book more and better gigs: what promoters want, how to pitch and follow up, building a local draw, and function and wedding routes.

How to promote a gig and sell more tickets: a UK timeline

A week-by-week plan for selling tickets to your next gig, from listings and posters to email, ads, local press and content on the night.

How to Promote Your Music: A Practical UK Plan

A step-by-step plan for UK independent artists: identity, streaming profiles, website, social media, playlists, press, gigs and measuring results.

What Makes a Good Band Logo? A UK Guide for Musicians

What makes a band logo work on stage, on merch and on a phone screen, plus file formats and UK trade mark basics for independent musicians.

Band Merch Design: How to Make Merch Your Fans Will Buy

How to design band merch that sells: which products to start with, screen printing versus DTG, colour limits, sizing, mock-ups and pricing from real costs.

Band Photoshoot Ideas: Concepts, Locations and Poses That Work

Concepts, locations, group styling and poses that avoid the line-up cliché, plus a shot list so your band leaves the shoot with every image it needs.

Facebook ads for musicians: how to promote releases and gigs

How UK musicians can use Meta ads to promote releases, gigs and function bookings: objectives, audiences, creative, budgets, measuring and common mistakes.