Free dates, meet the right venues
Pick a night you're free, set a 60-second brief, and GigXchange returns a ranked shortlist of best-fit venues — then sends real booking invites, not cold DMs. Free with every artist profile.
Stop cold-emailing venues that were never a fit
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Last updated: 7 July 2026
How it works
From a free date in your calendar to booking invites in venue inboxes — four short steps.
Pick a free date
The wizard opens on your real availability calendar — free, booked, soft-hold — so the pitch starts from a date you can actually play.
Set the brief
City, fee range, venue type — 60 seconds of input. The engine matches it against real venue profiles, not a static directory.
Pick from ranked matches
Best-fit venues come back scored, with fee bands and facilities. Select up to 3 — recently-pitched venues are locked until their cooldown ends.
Review, then send
Check the exact pitch each venue receives, tune the fee and notes, send. Each invite lands as a pending booking with a 72-hour window.
Everything in the match
Built to get working acts in front of the right rooms — and keep the pitching honest.
Starts from your real calendar
The wizard opens on your actual availability — free, booked, soft-hold — so you only ever pitch dates you can genuinely play.
A 60-second brief
City, fee range, venue type. That’s the whole form — the matching engine does the rest against real venue profiles.
Ranked, scored candidates
The best-fit venues come back ranked with a fit score, fee band and facilities — not a directory to trawl, a shortlist to pick from.
See the pitch before it sends
A pre-send review shows exactly what each venue receives: your date, proposed fee, set length and notes — editable before anything goes out.
Real booking invites, not DMs
Each pitch lands as a pending booking in the venue’s queue with a notification — inside the same flow that carries contracts and payment.
72-hour invites
Every invite expires after 72 hours, so venues see a live request, not a stale one — and you know where you stand within days.
Caps that protect your name
Up to 3 venues per batch, 6 a day, 15 a week, and a 14-day cooldown per venue — pitching stays sharp, never spammy.
Works both ways
Venues and promoters run the same wizard in reverse to find acts — your profile is what their searches surface, so keep it sharp.
Why matched pitches beat cold emails
The economics of getting booked: relevance, timing and a real call-to-action.
Relevance is the whole game
A cold email to a venue that books tribute acts when you play original jazz isn't marketing, it's noise — and venues develop a reflex for deleting it. AI Matches only surfaces venues whose type, city and budget actually fit your brief, ranked by fit score. The pitch that arrives is one the venue plausibly says yes to, which is why it gets opened.
Pitch dates, not vibes
"We'd love to play your venue sometime" gives a booker nothing to act on. A Smart Match pitch carries a specific free date from your real calendar, a proposed fee inside the range you searched, set length and equipment notes. It arrives as a pending booking they can accept — with the contract and protected payment already attached — not a conversation they have to start.
Scarcity keeps the channel alive
The caps — 3 venues a batch, 6 a day, 15 a week, a 14-day cooldown per venue — exist for you, not against you. A channel where every artist could blast every venue nightly would be dead in a month. Because pitches are scarce, venues treat them as signal; your invite competes with a handful of others, not a flood.
The 72-hour window works both ways
Invites expire after 72 hours. Venues see only live, current requests — and you're never left wondering for weeks. No answer? The cooldown clock runs, your caps refresh, and the next search is 60 seconds away. Persistence with rhythm beats persistence with volume.
Your profile is the pitch behind the pitch
When your invite lands, the venue's next click is your profile — so the match is only as strong as what they find there. Keep the EPK current, price against the UK Gig Rate Calculator so your fee range matches the market, and scout the venue directory for rooms worth briefing the wizard about. The wider playbook: how to get more gigs.
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UK Gig Rate Calculator
Live market percentiles for every band size, city and event type — built on the GigXchange Index. Updated nightly.
Tour Poster
Your gig list becomes a tour poster in 1 click — 4 styles, 3 formats, ticket QR codes and an animated video for socials.
Invoice Generator
VAT-ready invoices built from your gig bookings — auto-numbered, branded PDF, tracked from unpaid to paid.
Stage Plot
Drag-and-drop stage canvas, channel input list and monitor mixes — exported as an engineer-ready A4 PDF.
Flyer Builder
Striking gig flyers from 5 designed styles in 15 templates — prefilled from your booking, with a ticket QR and high-res PNG export.
Booking Manager
Your live availability embedded on your own website — visitors see free dates and book you direct. One snippet, zero upkeep.
EPK Builder
A press kit that updates itself — 18 drag-and-drop blocks, live players, verified reviews and availability at one link.
Fans & Mailing List
An audience you own — fans join from your profile, you send branded email updates with your flyers and posters attached.
Post a Gig
List an open slot in two minutes and take applications from gig-ready artists — full profiles and verified reviews attached.
GX Gig Rescue
Act dropped out? Broadcast an urgent booking invite to up to 25 available acts — first to accept is booked.
Licensing Checker
Ten questions decode your venue’s music licensing — permission, copyright and cost, with official sources.
Compliance Checklist
Eight questions build your venue’s compliance board — law first, ten areas, every item linked to its official source.
Martyn's Law Readiness
The 2025 Act reaches every 200+ venue from ~2027 — six questions give your tier, your duties and a first-draft procedures PDF.
Events Poster
Your upcoming programme becomes a designed what’s-on poster in one click — ticket QRs, status badges, your branding.
Find an Artist
Pick the empty date, set a 60-second brief, and invite up to 5 ranked best-fit acts with real booking invites.
Booking Contract Generator
UK-compliant live music performance agreement. 8 clauses, deposits, dual e-signatures, instant PDF.
Setlist Builder
Drag-reorder songs, auto-calc set duration, design a poster-ready setlist in under a minute. Share by link or export PNG / PDF.
GX Index
The UK’s open, free rate dataset for live music. Search by city, genre and use case. Submit your own anonymous rates.
UK Musician Earnings 2026
Data-backed report on what UK musicians actually earn — the £8bn paradox, the income ladder, the 50% rule. Free, CC BY 4.0.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the usual queries.
Your next room is a match away
Sign up free, mark your free dates, and run your first search tonight — three pitches, ranked for fit, sent as real booking invites.