The Indie Artist’s Field Guide to Booking the College Circuit

Making a Scene Presents - The Indie Artist’s Field Guide to Booking the College Circuit There is a certain kind of silence that only happens on the road on a Tuesday afternoon. The van is full of cables, hoodies, and half-finished gas station coffee. Friday and Saturday look decent. Sunday might work if the room is right. But the middle of the week is where a lot of tours quietly bleed out. That is the part nobody romanticizes. Gas does not care if your Friday show sold well. Hotels do not care that your last single made a playlist. A route becomes profitable when the dead spots stop being dead. That is where the college circuit starts to matter. Not as some shiny fantasy about “breaking into campuses,” but as a practical, artist-owned way to fill weekdays, earn guarantees, meet new fans, collect real fan data, and build relationships that can outlive one set in one room. That is the part of the live business too many indie artists still ignore. http://www.makingascene.org