It's been a problem for a while. Live Nation put a stranglehold on venue performance slots/opps for quite some time because they controlled the only established music clubs in town. Sadly the area of town where all the best clubs were down several blocks all together got turned into DJ/Playlist only dance clubs. 4 clubs in a row that used to feature Country, Urban, Folk/Singer Songwriters and Rock Bands all because discos. This was in the 2000-20005 time frame. It killed people's urge to see live music and those clubs mostly all failed and as the neighborhood completely gentrified, all the artists moved to affordable places and the entire scene just disappeared.

What you are describing sounds like a smart entrepreneur decided to band a collection of artists together and represent them and he has cornered the market. What you need is a competitor. It would require getting some bankable artists (people who can fill venues) who only work for your agency and then go and compete. Find out what they are offering. My guess is he has vetted high quality artists and come up with standardized fees etc. so it makes it super easy for the venue to book an artist who will please their crowds and often will boost their door traffic. Those are things artists have to be doing to compete these days and frankly always should have been doing.

I think you can beat em, but you have to go to battle with a winning hand.

Brian

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