Show me your tech sheets - technical rider

[pifos_2]

beuhhh people from the earth !!!

I have to write a tech sheet or something I could call like that. Since we have played only in bars and little clubs for 1 year, I never had the occasion do something pro.

Now the festivals and support slots are coming and I need something solid. Dunno really were to start, and how to arrange the informations.

You got some examples to show me ?

Thanx in advance. cheers.

 

[HeadCrusher]

iirc there might have been a thread on this already. maybe the search can help if no one responds. oh and sometimes you can find technical riders (that's what it's called really) on band's webpages. e.g. http://www.redlightsflash.net/download/Press/RedLightsFlash_TechnikRider.pdf

 

[smy1]

I am on the more extreme end of the spectrum (for a smaller indie band):

http://www.faderhead.com/gigstuff/rider/faderhead_rider_2007.pdf

 

[Chryst Krispies]

There was a thread. There was some cooool stuff in it too.

"Must have Bacon at EVERY meal"

Hahah.

Check Smoking Gun too for all your Diva related requests.


That Faderhead rider by the way is awesome. You got your shit in check. Love the NO BEHRINGER part haha.

 

[Sinister Mephisto]

The funniest rider I have ever seen was for Iggy Pop. Check it out if you can find it.

By the way, the no Behringer part is awesome.

 

[AudioGeekZine]

right here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1004061iggypop1.html

 

[Damian B]

that iggy pop one is hilarious

 

[jesus69lol]

Ok I'm a stupid noob on this. What are "tech sheets"? It looks like some kind of contract between artist and venue regarding the terms under which they'll play? Someone help me out here...

 

[AudioGeekZine]

Technical Rider

defines what the venue is to provide when a band plays a gig. PA, Amps, food, beer.
See Iggy Pop's above ^^ for an example.

 

[ahjteam]

I have written a four page tech-rider for a band on indie label band (we usually play at places sized 100-800 persons) that I mix + it has one additional page. It is in Finnish (and its not as legalthreating as the Faderhead one) except the inputlist is in English, so its propably not use for you, but I can describe it to you as it really has nothing special, except on the first paragraph there is a notice on big red latters that clearly says something that would be something like this in English: "IMPORTANT: The client acknowledges, that the band plays loud onstage" and in the 'big world version' it would have the addition of "and the concert shall not cancelled or interrupted in any way for this reason. If this does happen for whatever reason, the band must be paid in full as it reads on the contract and client must pay for all refunded tickets at his own expense", now it only has "but we will still try to keep the soundvolume in the audience as low as possible so no earplugs would be nessecary"

Then there is a a notice that the band doesn't have a monitor/light engineer and after follows minimum requirements of the PA-system, FOH mixer and FOH rack, microphones (this one is really "just in case" I am not mixing the band, because I have all the mics we need), monitoring system, backline, stage, electricity, lights. This is the first 2 pages with about 50-60 rows per page. The third page is the inputlist, fourth page is stagemap + a guide for (the possibly incompetent) monitor engineer what to put in the monitors

btw, there is an error in the faderhead rider on the sixth page, first paragraph, sixth row: "Furthermore THREE (2)"

 

[Kadmium]

I am on the more extreme end of the spectrum (for a smaller indie band):

http://www.faderhead.com/gigstuff/rider/faderhead_rider_2007.pdf

I love how the band requires healthy, low-fat, whole-grain meals and then requests four bottles of vodka.

 

[smy1]

I love how the band requires healthy, low-fat, whole-grain meals and then requests four bottles of vodka.

You can only drink lots if the rest of your system is working, muahahaha!

The idea behind it is this though:

The drummer and I are allergic to different foods, so it needs to be specific (or buy out, which I prefer, actually).

The 4 bottles serve the following purpose:

1 is for me on stage, I drink about half of it during 45-60 min performance and I pour a bit into front row ppls glasses or spit it around

1 is for guests of the band, cause usually there'll be a number of girls who are thirsty after the show and we don't want to be rude

1 is for the other bands on the bill, because they usually write "4 old sandwiches and a sixpack of lousy beer" on their rider, so they get that and come asking for vodka once they see our fridge. So unless they are really dumb assholes, we will share with them, but if we only had 1 bottle, it wouldn't be enough for me, the guests and my band

1 is for me and my band after the show.

Also, sometimes the organizer provides less, so if you write 4 you get 2. But if you write 1, you might get nothing ...

Writing a rider is often a negotiation and a lot of bands don't understand that. If you ask for little, you get little. If you ask for much, you either get much or a bit, but you'll never get little ...

 

[smy1]

btw, there is an error in the faderhead rider on the sixth page, first paragraph, sixth row: "Furthermore THREE (2)"

Thanks, it's actually corrected in the 2008 version, but that one isn't uploaded.