PERFORMANCELive Performance Agreement
A performer and a venue name the date, fee, split and settlement terms.
- 1. Parties and date
- 2. Artist fee and split
- 3. Deposit
- 4. Merchandise
- 5. Settlement
What it asks for
- Performer / act
- Venue
- Show date
- Agreed artist minimum ($ USD)
- Artist share of gross (%)
- Advance deposit (%)
- Soundcheck time and time zone
- Settlement date
- and 2 more
Technical & Sound System Rider
FOH engineering, monitors, backline specifications, and acoustic decibel parameters.
- 1. Show
- 2. Sound system
- 3. Engineer
- 4. Sound limit
What it asks for
- FOH Console Minimum Channels
- Independent Monitor Mixes
- Subwoofer / Low End Spec
- Curfew Decibel Limit (dB)
- Performer / act
- Venue
- Show date
- Sound engineer contact
- and 1 more
Hospitality & Green Room Protocol
Dressing room security, natural refreshments, and touring party comfort.
- 1. Show and party
- 2. Food and drink
- 3. Room and access
What it asks for
- Touring Party Size
- Dietary Protocol
- Performer / act
- Venue
- Show date
- Room access and opening times
- Hospitality contact
Force Majeure & Rescheduling Terms
What the parties do when weather, travel interruption or a local closure prevents the show.
- 1. Affected show
- 2. Notice
- 3. Rescheduling
- 4. Costs and advances
What it asks for
- First party
- Second party
- Original event date
- Reschedule window (days)
- Notice contacts
- Costs and advance return terms
- Proposed replacement date
Advance Agreement
An advance asked against a sealed negotiation or a recorded contract: the gross, the amount asked, the fee, and how it is repaid out of settlement.
- 1. What this paper is
- 2. The ceiling
- 3. Repayment
- 4. The fee
- 5. Where the money moves
- 6. If the show does not happen
- 7. Not yet open
What it asks for
- Who is asking (artist, promoter, room)
- Who is answering with the advance
- Sealed negotiation or recorded contract reference
- Date of the show or the delivery
- Gross named in that negotiation ($ USD)
- Advance asked for ($ USD)
- Repaid from
- Days from settlement to repay
Internship Agreement
A learning place inside the trade: what the intern does, who teaches, hours, pay or stipend if any, and how it ends.
- 1. The place
- 2. Who teaches
- 3. Pay
- 4. What the intern learns
- 5. Credit and the work
- 6. What is kept quiet
- 7. Ending it
What it asks for
- Host (room, label, promoter, agency)
- Intern
- Who teaches and answers questions
- The role in plain words
- Start date
- End date
- Hours a week
- Paid how
- and 2 more
Collaboration Agreement
Two or more parties making one piece of work together: shares, credit, costs, and who may use it afterwards.
- 1. The work
- 2. Shares
- 3. Costs
- 4. Credit
- 5. Who may use it
- 6. If someone leaves
- 7. The fee and the money
- 8. Disagreement
What it asks for
- First party
- Second party
- Anyone else on it (comma separated)
- What is being made
- Start date
- Share to the first party (%)
- Share to the second party (%)
- How costs are carried
- and 1 more
Partnership Agreement
An ongoing partnership between two houses: what each brings, how income and costs are shared, who decides, and how it ends.
- 1. The partnership
- 2. What each brings
- 3. Income and costs
- 4. Decisions
- 5. Books
- 6. The name
- 7. The fee and the money
- 8. Ending it
What it asks for
- First partner
- Second partner
- What the partnership is for
- Start date
- Term (months)
- What the first partner brings
- What the second partner brings
- Income share to the first partner (%)
- and 3 more
Joint Venture Term Sheet
The heads of terms for a joint venture — a starting point for the long paper, and not the long paper itself.
- 1. What this sheet is
- 2. The venture
- 3. What goes in
- 4. What each holds
- 5. Who runs it
- 6. The fee and the money
- 7. Confidentiality
- 8. What happens next
What it asks for
- First venturer
- Second venturer
- Working name of the venture
- What the venture does
- Territory
- Term (months)
- Capital or assets from the first venturer ($ USD)
- Capital or assets from the second venturer ($ USD)
- and 4 more
Mentorship / Learning Agreement
A mentor and a learner set down what is taught, how often they meet, what it costs if anything, and how either one may stop.
- 1. The arrangement
- 2. What the learner should be able to do
- 3. Cost
- 4. Whose work is whose
- 5. Missed sessions
- 6. What is kept quiet
- 7. Stopping
- 8. The fee and the money
What it asks for
- Mentor
- Learner
- What is being taught
- Start date
- Number of sessions
- Minutes a session
- How often
- Cost
- and 2 more
Debate Format & Moderator Terms
The format of a five-minute debate and the moderator's terms: two sides, an MC keeping time, seats, and positions held private until the motion is closed.
- 1. The motion and the two sides
- 2. The five-minute format
- 3. The MC
- 4. Seats
- 5. Positions stay private until the motion closes
- 6. What the result is
- 7. Conduct
- 8. This is a format sheet
What it asks for
- The motion, in one sentence
- Who speaks for the motion
- Who speaks against the motion
- MC / moderator
- Date
- Format
- Opening statement each (seconds)
- Rebuttal each (seconds)
- and 3 more
Agency Representation Letter
An artist and agency name the territory, term, commission and work left outside their arrangement.
- 1. Appointment
- 2. Artist decisions
- 3. Commission
- 4. Carve-outs
- 5. Ending
What it asks for
- Agency
- Artist
- Territory
- Start date
- End date
- Agency commission (%)
- Income the commission applies to
- Work the agency may arrange
- and 2 more
Roster Consent
A revocable page-owner consent that accompanies the roster invite and acceptance.
- 1. Consent
- 2. Handshake
- 3. Page work
- 4. Revocation
What it asks for
- Page owner
- Page key
- Manager account UID
- Manager / agency name
- Consent date
- Agreed work on the page
Deposit & Cancellation Schedule
The parties set their own deposit, notice dates, cancellation amounts and return terms.
- 1. Parties and event
- 2. Deposit
- 3. Cancellation
- 4. Returns
- 5. New date
What it asks for
- Payer
- Payee
- Show date
- Contract reference
- Deposit ($ USD)
- Deposit due date
- Cancellation notice date
- Cancellation amounts and dates
- and 2 more
Settlement Statement
A post-show account of gross, split, adjustments and who pays whom by which date.
- 1. Show account
- 2. Gross and split
- 3. Reconciliation
- 4. Balance
- 5. Platform fee
What it asks for
- Show
- Show date
- Signed contract reference
- Gross receipts ($ USD)
- Agreed split and its calculation basis
- Agreed costs, returns and prior advances
- Who pays
- Who receives
- and 4 more
MC / Host Agreement
The microphone, running order, billing and fee: SkyHigh’s own trade since 1981 [owner-provided 2026-09-13].
- 1. Host and date
- 2. Microphone and cues
- 3. Billing
- 4. Fee
- 5. Recording
What it asks for
- MC / host
- Organiser
- Venue
- Show date
- Set times and time zone
- Introductions, cues and hosting work
- Billing and credit
- MC fee ($ USD)
- and 2 more
Promoter Co-Promotion Agreement
A promoter, venue and artist divide the work, costs, tickets and show income.
- 1. Show
- 2. Shares
- 3. Work and marketing
- 4. Tickets
- 5. Account
What it asks for
- Promoter
- Venue
- Artist
- Show date
- Promoter share (%)
- Venue share (%)
- Artist share (%)
- What the shares apply to
- and 4 more
Ticketing Allocation Agreement
A ticketing company and organiser agree allocation, fees, reports, settlement and refund rules.
- 1. Allocation
- 2. Fees
- 3. Sales and reporting
- 4. Settlement
- 5. Refunds
What it asks for
- Ticketing company
- Promoter / venue
- Show
- Show date
- Tickets allocated
- Ticket price ($ USD)
- Ticketing fees and who pays them
- Sales end date
- and 3 more