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Drag-reorder songs, auto-calculate set duration, design a poster-ready setlist in under a minute — then share the link or print the PDF. Built into every free GigXchange profile.
Two saved setlists from a working UK rock-covers act — both publicly published on the artist’s GigXchange profile, so every venue, agent, promoter and fan who lands there sees exactly what they play. Yours could look like this in 60 seconds.
Public on your profile, by default. Toggle a setlist live and it surfaces on your GigXchange artist page — visible to every venue, agent and promoter browsing for an act, plus fans landing from search. A booker can see exactly what you play before they even message you. Both setlists above are stored in the same free profile, alongside the artist’s EPK, gig calendar and direct-booking inbox. Sign up free to build yours.
Four steps. Two minutes. Zero design skill needed.
30 seconds, no card. The setlist builder lives in your free profile dashboard alongside your EPK and gig calendar.
Title, original artist, duration. The builder sums the total set length live so you hit a 45 or 90-minute slot exactly.
Drag-reorder tracks until the flow's right, then pick a visual style. Every edit updates the share-ready poster instantly.
Send the share link to the sound engineer, post to the venue WhatsApp, or download PNG / PDF for the desk and stage.
The structure UK function bands, pub acts and festival openers actually use — distilled.
The first 90 seconds of your set is the only window you get to convert a half-distracted pub crowd into a captive audience. Lead with a familiar, mid-to-up-tempo cover at 110–130 BPM, in a comfortable key for your singer. UK working bands consistently report a 30–40% drop in audience attention when sets open with a slow original or a deep cut, so save those for tracks 3 or 4 once the room is anchored. (Browsing for a pub residency? See the city-by-city venue directory for active live-music rooms near you.)
Most UK pub residencies are 2 x 45-minute sets with a 20-minute interval, festival opener slots are 25–30 minutes, and a standard wedding evening is 2 x 60-minute sets. Run over and you eat into the next act's stagetime; run under and you've shortchanged the booker. The setlist builder's auto-totalled duration is built for exactly this — type each song's length in mm:ss and the running total updates live, so you land within ±30 seconds of the slot every time. Pair that with the UK Gig Rate Calculator to know what your slot is actually worth before you confirm.
Once your arc is locked, lock in the gig itself — pitch the venue with one of the free venue outreach email templates, then negotiate the fee using percentile data from the GX Index.
Sequencing two songs in clashing keys (e.g. F# straight into Eb) drains energy, even if the audience can't articulate why. Note each track's key on the setlist; group keys in fifths where you can. Drum-counted segues between two compatible-tempo tracks (within 8 BPM of each other) save 5–10 seconds of dead air per change — over a 90-minute set that's a full song's worth of momentum recovered. For more on what UK working musicians actually earn per set, see the UK Musician Earnings 2026 report.
Tape a copy to the monitor wedge of every player, plus one for the sound engineer at front-of-house. The PDF export from this builder is A4 portrait at 300dpi, designed to read in low stage light at 2 metres — the typical distance from drum kit to floor wedge. Don't rely on a phone; screens dim, lockscreens trigger, and gaffer-taping a phone to a wedge is how setlists get lost. Once you're set, publish the setlist on your GigXchange artist profile so every venue, agent and promoter browsing for an act sees exactly what you bring to the stage.
From a 30-minute open-mic slot to a 4-hour wedding marathon — one tool, every format.
Plan two 45-minute sets back-to-back, mark the interval, swap covers in and out by tempo. Ideal for working musicians on weekly slots.
Build a 60-minute first dance & dinner set + a high-energy 60-minute party set. Save reusable templates by season.
Hit a 25, 30 or 40-minute slot dead-on. Fast-pivot if the previous act overruns — drag-drop reorders the running total in real time.
From acoustic open mics to album-launch headliners. One free profile, unlimited setlists for every project you run.
Everything a working UK musician needs from a setlist tool — nothing they don't.
Live set length as you type. Hit a 45 or 90-minute pub slot, a 25-minute festival slot, or a 60-minute wedding set, exactly.
Tape it to the monitor wedge. Hand it to the desk. Looks like a professional act, not a Notes-app screenshot.
Paste into WhatsApp, email or a booker thread. Engineers and bandmates open the latest version on any device, no signup wall.
Toggle public to surface your setlist on your GigXchange artist profile — a credibility signal text-only EPKs can't match.
Every tool here is built for UK live music. No signup. No paywall.
Live market percentiles for every band size, city and event type — built on the GigXchange Index. Updated nightly.
Six customisable email templates for pitching UK venues — cold outreach, festival, support slot, follow-up, thank-you, residency.
UK-compliant live music performance agreement. 8 clauses, deposits, dual e-signatures, instant PDF. Lock in the gig once it’s won.
The UK’s open, free rate dataset for live music. Search by city, genre and use case. Submit your own anonymous rates.
Data-backed report on what UK musicians actually earn — the £8bn paradox, the income ladder, the 50% rule. CC BY 4.0.
Short answers for UK gigging musicians building setlists.
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