Day in the Life of an Indie Tour Manager

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I caught up with Can't Swim's tour manager, Charlie Caruso, to chat about what his job entails.
A huge shoutout to Charlie for being so cool about being interviewed while actually working haha :)
I left this as sort of a longer piece with hopes that people who are interested in pursuing tour managing could digest all the information.
Enjoy!
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My Socials/Music -
/ andrewkamen
sptfy.com/LiJC
/ kamen_music
/ andrewkamen
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Links to Software Charlie Mentions:
At Venue
www.atvenu.com/
Master Tour 3
www.eventric.com/master-tour-...
Artist Growth
artistgrowth.com/
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Charlie's Links:
/ charles_caruso
www.yourmerchbuddy.com/
/ badluck.nyc
/ theblondetongues

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Комментарии : 64

@asterleon9233 3 года назад

This is honestly so wonderful. It's hard to find specific video content like this, especially on the topic. 10/10

@3statgass3d 3 года назад

holy shit this is underrated, it’s such great quality and content, this needs more views

@hazardeur 8 месяцев назад

Man, i have huge respect for these bands that are not big enough to live off of it good yet not small enough to do it as a sidejob. it's the perfect spot where you don't want to be from a purely reasonable POV but they love it so they do it anyway and without them, there would be much less shows, in all genres. personally, i sometimes play small to medium clubs as opener and sometimes even smaller stuff as headliner gig but that's all local stuff within a few hours of my home so it gives me just enough air to smell how it's working and to feel like i'm a small part of it but man, i never would want to do this full time, it's not for me. this is hard fucking work and dont ever make the mistake to compare your wage vs the time you put in.

@GradySpencer 8 месяцев назад

I finally reached the point I can hire a full time merch/tm guy and I’m going to show him this video as mandatory training. Absolutely incredible insight man…thank you!

@headphoneactivist 6 месяцев назад

some of the best music related content I have seen in a while. dude is a actually a G for handeling everything and being so chill in the chaos.

@user-zu7fu6ky9k 7 месяцев назад

I would watch a full tour of this content, keep it up!

@jazellemerritt5494 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for sharing! Hella inspiring to watch and gives a realistic POV. You are definitely badass 🔥

@TTT-1961. 6 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed this. Have not heard of either band before, but just listened to them on YT. Both have a great sound. Will be catching the show nest time in ATL so please include in ‘24.

@JaaySnipes 7 месяцев назад

Great behind the scenes look at how much work goes into putting on shows

@risatap 3 года назад

love this!! would love to get into merch/tming one day, so this was very informative :)

@AndrewKamenMusic 3 года назад

Stoked to read this comment lol. Thanks for watching 🙏

@MrSrgdrum Год назад

Super informative. Thank you. I appreciate the heads up on the software you use.

@brandynkilpatrick 4 месяца назад

This documentary was so inspiring for me when I first watched it a couple of years ago, since then I’ve started doing merch for a band which had given me the most amazing experiences and I hope to continue to do so and it’s all because of this video, thank you so much for making it🙏

@Mikey-sd1cp 3 года назад

This was super interesting thank you for making this! Ive always been interested in tour managing// being a video/photographer for a band on tour. And seeing the bts of what goes down for a whole show was really cool to see! hopefully, i can be in the bts more for concerts after this covid stuff. Great video very well done!

@nickcocozzella2724 6 месяцев назад

This brings back so many memories.

@vintagevinylvets1187 7 месяцев назад

Great video and great insight for fans out there. It shows a realistic view of how a Indie business model works. It’s not always s&$@s and giggles out there as well. I retired from the road 6 years ago, this brought back a lot of memories. Wouldn’t change a thing.🎧

@calebskowronek3231 3 года назад

This was super informative! I’m doing all I can to break into the music industry somewhere and this video was superrr helpful!!

@Jeff.mp3 6 месяцев назад

This video is amazing please do more stuff like this

@JaneDoeHipsta Год назад

Great to watch as an indie. Artist

@vegita1998 Год назад

I wish I had access to this kind of content when I started touring haha

@MarkDowns-rw4ke 8 месяцев назад

This video is absolutely spot on, bare bones, no holds bared, as it is. Great video dude. From a Uk / Europe based TM. 🤘🎸 ⚡

@AndrewKamenMusic 8 месяцев назад

thanks man happy to hear you enjoyed it 🙏

@jasonjon 8 месяцев назад

superb

@kasenlehenbauer4855 6 месяцев назад

such a good video

@paulbali9998 7 месяцев назад

lotta good drummers here

@andrewbmartin Год назад

Great video

@thomasche 8 месяцев назад

Touring is so much different from what we think ! Thanks for showing it. I don’t know who is this guy at 3:43 but I loved the realness. Wish you the best my friend 🙏🏼

@d.stattner9777 7 месяцев назад

Tyler Povanda from SAVE FACE

@kronbakeren 3 года назад

Its amazing , just watched a video on a DJ making edm/dubstep - from my country flying worldwide living big hotels and 1 class air flights .. he’s in mid 20 making millions while hard working rock musicians almost can’t effort going on tour .. why isn’t there the same audience for all musicians ! Deeply respect and love to these struggling acts - hope huge success will land on your shoulders ❤️🔥🎤🎸

@xxcelr8rs Год назад

Screw everyone that supports DJ's over musicians.

@lillehammerexperimental 2 года назад

Amazing hard worker

@kendallevans4079 8 месяцев назад

A labor of love! You gotta love what your doing because if you broke it down to an hourly wage you'd be sick!

@westrig180 7 месяцев назад

Thats called paying your dues , if you stick with it and become very good the big $ are there waiting. But you have to be smart , not too greedy and be able to take ALOT of BS and sort thru it all in the beginning. If you are truly cut out fot this biz, you will get there.

@das0ul177 7 месяцев назад

That first ten seconds reminded me of school of rock 😂

@backstagewithcaitlin Год назад

this was sick! i'm on the path to becoming a TM myself. HMU if you ever need a UK rep / TM / assistant. would even be down to just shadow

@renesupersonic 3 года назад

cool video, at 18:20 Charlie mentions ticket sales were only 1,350$?

@Updog89 Год назад

Lots of bands are lucky to break even on tours, let alone profit. Merch sales help them a lot, but no one ever works on a tour just for the money.

@marymore7366 Год назад

Interesting video! How did you become a tour manager and what kinda person should you be if you wanted to become a tour manager?

@westrig180 7 месяцев назад

There is no 'one answer' to your question. Often its right place, right time. Maybe fate. Someone who understands all types of people, has patience but also knows when to draw the line and deal with whatever situ needs resolving immediately. You grow into the position. One cant set themselves up to be in management. Its acquired thru years of experience doing other touring positions first. You have to know all the aspects of production in order to understand and control a load in show and load out. You dont learn that in a day or week or two months. Most of the 'instant tour manager' people that got into it cause they were friends with the band etc dont last very long.

@marymore7366 7 месяцев назад

@@westrig180 Interesting insights! I heard that you can actually go to uni in Germany to become a tour manager... Sounds like that wouldn't make much sense from what you've said...

@drewbocop 6 месяцев назад

Well that's better than the scene of scrounging through the dumpster out back for a free meal and smoking cigarette butts I was picturing Dude kind of looks like Davey Havok of AFI fame btw

@samshaw2388 3 года назад

I miss live shows so much :,,)

@AndrewKamenMusic 3 года назад

Can't wait for them to start back up again. Hoping by summer?

@stellastard 11 месяцев назад

Hey, curious what did you use for mics for this video? Lav? Shotgun? Combo?

@AndrewKamenMusic 11 месяцев назад

i was using a sony k3m on my a7sii at the time. it had a little shotgun going into one channel for the location sound and then a sennheiser g3 lav on charlie. g3 receiver went into the 2nd channel on the k3m.

@stellastard 11 месяцев назад

@@AndrewKamenMusic thanks!