These terms set out the basis on which artists may join Brooks’s Bookings, accept booking opportunities and provide live performance services through us. Please read them carefully before applying to join or accepting a booking.

 1. Joining Brooks’s Bookings

Artists wishing to join Brooks’s Bookings must submit an application and provide accurate information about their act, experience and performance services.

Applications may be reviewed before an artist is accepted onto the Brooks’s Bookings network. We may request additional information, performance material, references or other relevant documentation as part of this process.

Submission of an application does not guarantee acceptance, and Brooks’s Bookings reserves the right to decline an application where we do not consider the artist suitable for the services we provide.

Artists are responsible for ensuring that the information, photographs, videos, links and other materials they provide are accurate and kept reasonably up to date.

2. Artist Status and Relationship

Artists provide their performance services as independent performers and are not employees of Brooks’s Bookings.

Nothing in these terms creates an employment relationship, partnership or joint venture between Brooks’s Bookings and an artist.

Artists remain responsible for their own tax affairs, National Insurance contributions and any other obligations arising from income they receive through bookings.

Artists are free to perform independently and obtain work through other agencies, platforms or clients. Joining Brooks’s Bookings does not create an exclusive arrangement unless otherwise agreed in writing.

Brooks’s Bookings acts as a booking intermediary, helping clients find suitable artists, coordinating bookings and administering payments in accordance with these terms.

3. Booking Opportunities and Acceptance

Brooks’s Bookings may offer artists booking opportunities based on factors such as availability, location, type of event, style of music, client requirements and suitability for the booking.

Artists are under no obligation to accept every booking opportunity offered to them.

When an artist accepts a booking, they agree to provide the performance in accordance with the confirmed booking details, including the date, location, performance times, agreed fee and any other requirements communicated and agreed as part of the booking.

Artists should not consider a booking confirmed until confirmation has been provided by Brooks’s Bookings.

Once a booking has been confirmed, the artist is expected to honour the booking except where cancellation is necessary due to circumstances covered by these terms.

4. Artist Fees, Client Payments and Commission

The performance fee for each booking will be agreed with the artist before the booking is confirmed.

Unless otherwise agreed, Brooks’s Bookings will collect payment from the client on behalf of the artist.

Brooks’s Bookings charges a 10% commission on the artist’s agreed performance fee for bookings arranged through Brooks’s Bookings. The commission will be deducted from the amount collected from the client, and the remaining 90% will be paid to the artist.

Payment to the artist will normally be made within 48 hours following completion of the performance, provided that Brooks’s Bookings has received the relevant payment from the client and there is no genuine dispute relating to the booking.

Artists are responsible for providing accurate payment details and for notifying Brooks’s Bookings promptly of any changes to those details.

Artists are responsible for their own tax, National Insurance and other financial obligations arising from payments received through Brooks’s Bookings.

Artists must not attempt to avoid the commission payable to Brooks’s Bookings by arranging directly with a client introduced through Brooks’s Bookings where the booking or opportunity arose through our service.

5. Non-Circumvention and Direct Bookings

Artists must not intentionally bypass Brooks’s Bookings in order to avoid paying the commission due on bookings or opportunities introduced through Brooks’s Bookings.

Where an artist is introduced to a client through Brooks’s Bookings, any booking arising from that introduction should be arranged through Brooks’s Bookings unless we agree otherwise in writing.

If a client introduced through Brooks’s Bookings contacts an artist directly regarding a new or additional performance, the artist must notify Brooks’s Bookings and must not knowingly arrange the booking privately for the purpose of avoiding our commission.

This includes repeat bookings, additional performances, extensions to an existing booking, or bookings resulting from an introduction originally made through Brooks’s Bookings.

Artists remain free to accept bookings from clients they obtained independently and with whom they had a genuine pre-existing relationship before being introduced through Brooks’s Bookings.

Nothing in these terms prevents an artist from promoting their services independently, working with other booking agencies or platforms, or accepting bookings that have not arisen through an introduction made by Brooks’s Bookings.

Any commission payable under this section will be calculated at the 10% commission rate applicable to artist bookings arranged through Brooks’s Bookings.

For the purposes of this section, the restrictions relating to an introduced client will apply for 12 months from the date of the artist's most recent booking with, or introduction to, that client through Brooks’s Bookings.

6. Cancellations and Artist Reliability

Once an Artist accepts a booking and Brooks’s Bookings confirms it, the Artist is expected to honour the booking and make all reasonable efforts to perform as agreed.

Artists must notify Brooks’s Bookings of any cancellation as soon as reasonably possible.

More than 14 days before the performance:
The Artist may cancel without a warning or suspension.

Between 7 and 14 days before the performance:
The Artist will normally be suspended from being put forward for new performance opportunities for two weeks.

Less than 7 days before the performance:
The Artist will normally be suspended from being put forward for new performance opportunities for one month.

Less than 48 hours before the performance:
The Artist will normally be suspended from being put forward for new performance opportunities for two months.

Genuine illness, emergencies and exceptional circumstances:
Where an Artist is unable to perform because of genuine illness, hospital treatment, bereavement, emergency or another serious circumstance outside their reasonable control, Brooks’s Bookings may waive the suspension that would otherwise apply.

Brooks’s Bookings may request reasonable supporting evidence where appropriate, such as a doctor’s note, hospital documentation or other relevant evidence of the circumstances. Where Brooks’s Bookings accepts that the cancellation was for a genuine and evidenced reason, no suspension will normally apply. The cancellation will still be recorded for administrative and booking-history purposes.

Repeated suspensions:
If an Artist accumulates suspensions totalling three months within any 12-month period, or six months within any 24-month period, Brooks’s Bookings may terminate the Artist’s membership of its artist network.

Where an Artist is removed under this rule, they will not be eligible to reapply to join Brooks’s Bookings.

A suspension prevents the Artist from being put forward for new performance opportunities during the suspension period. It does not automatically cancel bookings that were already confirmed before the suspension began.

Where an Artist cancels a confirmed performance, Brooks’s Bookings will manage communication with the Hirer and, where possible, attempt to arrange a suitable replacement. Artists should not arrange a replacement performer themselves without prior agreement from Brooks’s Bookings.

7. Artist Responsibilities

Artists working with Brooks’s Bookings are expected to behave professionally and provide the performance agreed as part of each confirmed booking.

Artists are responsible for:

Punctuality: Arriving at the venue with sufficient time to set up, complete any required sound check and be ready to perform at the agreed start time.

Performance: Providing the agreed performance for the confirmed duration and performing material appropriate for the event, venue and audience as agreed before the booking.

Preparation: Arriving appropriately prepared, rehearsed and with any equipment the Artist has agreed to provide.

Equipment: Ensuring any equipment supplied by the Artist is suitable, safe and in appropriate working condition. Any equipment requirements that must be provided by the Hirer or venue should be communicated to Brooks’s Bookings before the booking is confirmed.

Professional conduct: Treating Hirers, venue staff, guests, other Artists and representatives of Brooks’s Bookings respectfully and professionally.

Alcohol and drugs: Artists must not perform while impaired by alcohol, illegal drugs or any other substance to an extent that affects their ability to perform safely and professionally.

Venue rules and safety: Following reasonable venue rules, health and safety requirements and lawful instructions given by the venue or Hirer.

Appearance: Following any reasonable dress code or appearance requirements that have been communicated and agreed before the booking.

Communication: Informing Brooks’s Bookings promptly of any issue that could affect the Artist’s ability to fulfil a confirmed booking.

Contact with Hirers: Artists should keep Brooks’s Bookings informed of material communications concerning bookings arranged through Brooks’s Bookings and must comply with the Non-Circumvention and Direct Bookings section of these terms.

Changes to the performance: Artists must not make significant changes to the agreed performance, such as changing the performing line-up, substantially reducing the set length or sending a substitute performer, without prior agreement from Brooks’s Bookings.

No-shows: Failure to attend a confirmed booking without notifying Brooks’s Bookings will be treated as a serious breach of these terms and may result in immediate suspension or removal from the Brooks’s Bookings artist network, subject to consideration of any genuine emergency or exceptional circumstances.

Serious or repeated breaches of these responsibilities may result in an Artist being temporarily suspended from new opportunities or, where appropriate, removed from the Brooks’s Bookings artist network.

8. Authority to Act and Receive Payment

By agreeing to these terms, the Artist authorises Brooks’s Bookings to act as their entertainment booking agency for bookings arranged through Brooks’s Bookings.

This authority includes identifying and introducing suitable performance opportunities, communicating with Hirers regarding proposed bookings, coordinating booking arrangements and confirming agreed booking details on the Artist’s behalf once those details have been accepted by the Artist.

The Artist expressly authorises Brooks’s Bookings to receive performance payments from Hirers on the Artist’s behalf for bookings arranged through Brooks’s Bookings.

Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the Hirer will pay the full agreed performance fee to Brooks’s Bookings rather than paying the Artist directly.

Brooks’s Bookings will deduct its agreed 10% work-finding commission from the Artist’s gross performance fee and will account to the Artist for the remaining 90%, subject to these terms.

The Artist will normally be paid within 48 hours following completion of the performance, provided the relevant funds have been received and cleared and there is no genuine dispute affecting the payment.

Brooks’s Bookings will maintain appropriate records of money received on behalf of Artists and amounts deducted or paid.

Artists must provide accurate payment details and promptly notify Brooks’s Bookings of any changes. Brooks’s Bookings will not be responsible for delays caused by incorrect or incomplete payment information supplied by the Artist.

Artists must not request or accept direct payment from a Hirer for a booking arranged through Brooks’s Bookings unless Brooks’s Bookings has expressly agreed to this in writing.

No commission will be deducted from an Artist’s earnings until the Artist has agreed to these Terms and Conditions.

9. Promotional Material, Photos and Videos

Artists may provide Brooks’s Bookings with promotional materials including photographs, videos, recordings, biographies, logos, social media links and other information relating to their act.

By providing promotional material to Brooks’s Bookings, the Artist confirms that they have the necessary rights and permissions to provide that material and to allow Brooks’s Bookings to use it for the purposes described in these terms.

Where the Artist has given permission, Brooks’s Bookings may use approved promotional material to advertise the Artist and Brooks’s Bookings’ services, including on the Brooks’s Bookings website, social media accounts and other promotional materials.

Artists may also choose to provide photographs or videos taken at performances arranged through Brooks’s Bookings for possible promotional use.

Brooks’s Bookings will not guarantee that any material submitted by an Artist will be published and may decide which materials are suitable for its website, social media or other promotional channels.

Artists should not submit photographs or videos containing other identifiable individuals unless they have the appropriate permission to do so, particularly where children are identifiable.

An Artist may withdraw permission for Brooks’s Bookings to use their promotional material by contacting Brooks’s Bookings. Where permission is withdrawn, Brooks’s Bookings will stop using the material for new promotional purposes and will take reasonable steps to remove it from digital channels under its control, where appropriate. This may not always allow the removal of material already incorporated into previously published or printed materials.

Permission to use promotional material does not transfer ownership of the Artist’s photographs, videos, recordings or other intellectual property to Brooks’s Bookings.

10. Artist Connections

Brooks’s Bookings may offer Artists the opportunity to participate in Artist Connections, a free optional service designed to help Artists connect with other musicians for collaborations, forming bands or acts, finding additional performers and other music-related opportunities.

Participation in Artist Connections is entirely optional and is not a requirement for joining Brooks’s Bookings or being considered for performance opportunities.

Artists wishing to participate must opt in and specify the types of connections or opportunities they are interested in.

Brooks’s Bookings will not share an Artist’s personal contact details with another Artist without appropriate permission. Where a potential connection is identified, Brooks’s Bookings may contact the Artists involved before sharing contact information or facilitating an introduction.

Artists may withdraw from Artist Connections at any time by contacting Brooks’s Bookings.

Brooks’s Bookings does not guarantee that participating Artists will receive introductions, find suitable collaborators, form a band or obtain additional performance opportunities through Artist Connections.

Any collaboration, band, project or other arrangement subsequently entered into between Artists is separate from Brooks’s Bookings unless Brooks’s Bookings has specifically agreed to arrange or manage it.

Artists are responsible for deciding whether another Artist is suitable for any collaboration or project and for agreeing between themselves any arrangements relating to rehearsals, performances, expenses, payment, equipment or other responsibilities.

Brooks’s Bookings is not responsible for private arrangements or disputes between Artists arising from connections made through Artist Connections, except to the extent that responsibility cannot lawfully be excluded.

11. Insurance, Licences and Legal Responsibilities

Artists are responsible for ensuring that they comply with any legal, licensing, insurance and safety requirements that apply to them and their performance.

Where appropriate for a particular booking, Brooks’s Bookings may ask an Artist to provide evidence of relevant insurance, licences, certificates or other documentation before the Artist is put forward for or attends a performance.

Public Liability Insurance: Where a Hirer, venue or event requires the Artist to hold Public Liability Insurance, the Artist must ensure that suitable cover is in place for the performance and provide evidence when requested.

Equipment and electrical safety: Artists are responsible for ensuring that equipment they provide is safe, suitable for use and maintained appropriately. Where a venue requires evidence of electrical safety testing or other documentation, the Artist must provide this where applicable.

Music and performance licences: Artists must provide Brooks’s Bookings with accurate information about their performance and requirements. Responsibility for venue or event licences, including licences required for the provision of live entertainment or use of premises, will normally remain with the Hirer or venue where applicable.

Right to work: Artists are responsible for ensuring that they are legally entitled to undertake the performance work they accept through Brooks’s Bookings.

Health and safety: Artists must comply with reasonable health and safety requirements at the venue and must not knowingly use equipment, staging or performance areas that they reasonably believe to be unsafe. Any significant safety concern should be reported to Brooks’s Bookings and the Hirer or venue as soon as possible.

Artists must inform Brooks’s Bookings if they become aware of anything that may prevent them from lawfully or safely completing a confirmed booking.

Brooks’s Bookings may decline to put an Artist forward for a booking, or may suspend an Artist from new opportunities, where required documentation has reasonably been requested but has not been provided.

12. Problems, Complaints and Incidents

Artists should report any significant problem relating to a booking arranged through Brooks’s Bookings as soon as reasonably possible.

Where an issue arises before a performance, the Artist should contact Brooks’s Bookings rather than attempting to make significant changes to the booking directly with the Hirer.

Where an issue arises during a performance, the Artist should, where reasonable and safe to do so, attempt to resolve minor practical issues professionally with the appropriate venue representative. Brooks’s Bookings should be informed of any significant issue as soon as reasonably possible.

Artists should contact Brooks’s Bookings promptly where an issue involves matters such as incorrect performance arrangements, unsuitable or unavailable equipment, significant changes to agreed timings, inappropriate behaviour, disputes with the Hirer or venue, or any other matter that could materially affect the booking.

Safety and inappropriate behaviour: Artists are not expected to remain in a situation where they reasonably believe their health or safety is at risk. This includes threatening, abusive, discriminatory, violent or seriously inappropriate behaviour from a Hirer, venue representative, guest or other person at the event.

Where there is an immediate risk to safety, the Artist should prioritise their own safety and contact the appropriate emergency services where necessary. Brooks’s Bookings should be informed as soon as reasonably practicable afterwards.

Complaints about an Artist: Where Brooks’s Bookings receives a complaint from a Hirer or venue concerning an Artist, the Artist will normally be given an opportunity to provide their account of what happened before Brooks’s Bookings reaches a decision, where appropriate.

Brooks’s Bookings may request relevant information or evidence from the Artist, Hirer or venue when reviewing a complaint or incident.

Where a complaint is substantiated, Brooks’s Bookings may provide guidance, issue a warning, temporarily suspend the Artist from new opportunities or, in serious or repeated cases, end its relationship with the Artist.

Brooks’s Bookings will consider the circumstances of each incident individually and will aim to act reasonably and proportionately.

13. Ending the Relationship with Brooks’s Bookings

Artists may choose to leave the Brooks’s Bookings artist network by providing 14 days’ written notice by email.

Brooks’s Bookings may also end its relationship with an Artist by providing 14 days’ written notice.

Leaving Brooks’s Bookings does not automatically cancel any performances that were already confirmed before notice was given. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the Artist will remain responsible for completing all confirmed bookings in accordance with these Terms.

Brooks’s Bookings may suspend or end its relationship with an Artist without the usual notice period where there has been serious misconduct, fraud or dishonesty, a serious safety concern, deliberate circumvention of Brooks’s Bookings, a serious breach of these Terms, or another circumstance that reasonably makes continuation of the relationship inappropriate.

Brooks’s Bookings may also remove an Artist where they reach the suspension limits set out in Section 6 — Cancellations and Artist Reliability.

Where an Artist is removed under the repeated-suspension rule in Section 6, they will not be eligible to reapply to Brooks’s Bookings.

Where the relationship ends for another reason, Brooks’s Bookings may consider a future application from the Artist at its discretion.

Any money already due to the Artist for completed performances will remain payable in accordance with these Terms after the relationship ends.

Any commission already properly due to Brooks’s Bookings in relation to work arranged before the relationship ended will also remain payable.

The ending of the relationship does not affect any provisions of these Terms which are intended to continue afterwards, including provisions relating to outstanding payments, confidentiality, data protection and applicable restrictions concerning clients introduced through Brooks’s Bookings.

The Non-Circumvention and Direct Bookings provisions in Section 5 will continue to apply for the remainder of the applicable 12-month protection period following the Artist’s departure from Brooks’s Bookings.

14. Data Protection and Privacy

Brooks’s Bookings will collect and use personal information about Artists where necessary to operate the agency, manage Artist applications, arrange bookings, process payments, communicate with Artists and Hirers, maintain appropriate business records and provide its services.

Personal information will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection law and the Brooks’s Bookings Privacy Policy, which explains in more detail how personal information is collected, used, stored and protected.

Artists are responsible for ensuring that the personal information they provide to Brooks’s Bookings is accurate and should notify Brooks’s Bookings if their details change.

Brooks’s Bookings will only share Artist information with Hirers, venues or other relevant parties where reasonably necessary to arrange or manage a booking, where the Artist has given permission, or where there is another lawful reason to do so.

Participation in Artist Connections is optional. Personal contact details will not be shared with another Artist through Artist Connections without appropriate permission.

Where an Artist provides information relating to illness, injury or another health matter in connection with a cancellation or booking, Brooks’s Bookings will only request and retain information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose and will handle such information with appropriate care and in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.

Artists should refer to the Privacy Policy for further information about their data protection rights and how to contact Brooks’s Bookings regarding their personal information.

15. Liability and Limitations

Brooks’s Bookings will take reasonable care when providing its booking and work-finding services but cannot guarantee that every booking, Artist, Hirer, venue or event will proceed without difficulties.

Artists remain responsible for the quality and delivery of their own performances, their conduct, and any equipment or property they provide or use in connection with a booking.

Brooks’s Bookings will not normally be responsible for loss, damage, delay or disruption caused by circumstances outside its reasonable control, including venue closures, severe weather, travel disruption, power failures, emergencies, acts or omissions of Hirers or venues, or other events that Brooks’s Bookings could not reasonably prevent.

Brooks’s Bookings does not guarantee any Artist a minimum number of bookings, level of income or frequency of performance opportunities.

Brooks’s Bookings is not responsible for an Artist’s personal belongings, instruments or equipment except where loss or damage is directly caused by Brooks’s Bookings and liability cannot lawfully be excluded.

Artists should maintain appropriate insurance for their own equipment and activities where necessary.

Where Brooks’s Bookings becomes aware of a problem affecting a confirmed booking, it will take reasonable steps to communicate with the relevant parties and, where appropriate, help identify a practical solution or replacement arrangement.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.

16. Changes to These Terms

Brooks’s Bookings may update these Terms from time to time where reasonably necessary, including to reflect changes to the services provided, business practices, legal requirements or regulatory guidance.

Where a change materially affects an Artist’s rights, responsibilities, commission or payment arrangements, Brooks’s Bookings will provide the Artist with written notice of the proposed change.

Where required, Artists will be asked to agree to revised Terms before the changes take effect.

Changes to these Terms will not retrospectively alter the agreed terms of a booking that has already been confirmed, unless the Artist and Brooks’s Bookings agree otherwise or a change is required by law.

The latest version of these Terms will be made available through the Brooks’s Bookings website or provided to Artists on request.

17. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

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These Terms and the relationship between Brooks’s Bookings and the Artist are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Any dispute arising in connection with these Terms will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales, subject to any rights or legal requirements that apply.

18. Contact Details and Acceptance of Terms

Questions regarding these Terms, bookings or an Artist’s relationship with Brooks’s Bookings should be directed to Brooks’s Bookings using the contact details provided on our website.

Before Brooks’s Bookings provides work-finding services to an Artist, the Artist will be required to confirm that they have read, understood and agreed to these Terms.

By accepting these Terms, the Artist confirms that they understand the services provided by Brooks’s Bookings, the applicable 10% work-finding commission, the payment arrangements and Brooks’s Bookings’ authority to act and receive performance payments on their behalf as described in these Terms.

Acceptance of these Terms may be recorded electronically, including through an application or onboarding form.

Artists should retain a copy of the Terms that they agree to. Brooks’s Bookings will also maintain appropriate records of the terms agreed with its Artists.

Last updated: 15/08/2026