Local Scene is a separate view inside Contacts focused on geographic relationships — the people and places that make up your local music scene. Useful for tour planning, co-bill suggestions, and remembering "who books what venue".
Setting your scene city
At the top of the Local Scene view, set your home city. It's filled in as the city for each entity you add.
Entity types you can add
- Artists — fellow musicians in your scene (peers and potential co-bills)
- Venues — clubs, bars, theaters, DIY spaces
- Promoters — the people who actually decide who plays where
- Media — local journalists, blogs, college radio (more localized than the main Contacts list)
- Other — studios, record stores, instrument shops, music schools, etc.
Connections
Track relationships between entities — Co-Bill, Same Genre, Same City, Booked At, Covered By, Collaborated — so "who books what" and "who played with whom" are one click away.
Co-bill suggestions
Co-Bill Suggestions lists each artist in your scene next to the venues they're connected to, and flags a Genre Match or City Match between the artist and the venue — a starting point for working out who to share a bill with, and where. Add connections between artists and venues to get suggestions. No subscription needed.
Booking Agent
Open Your Team while the Local Scene tab is on screen to talk to the Booking Agent (the Contacts and SMS Campaigns tabs use the Publicist), or press ⌘K and choose "Ask the Booking Agent". The Calendar page has a Booking Agent button too, under the page title. It drafts pitches to venues and promoters, suggests co-bill partners from your Local Scene directory, plans the run-up to a show counting back from the date, suggests setlist orders, and helps route a short run of dates. It works from the Local Scene directory, venue contacts, logged booking requests, gigs on the Calendar, and song titles, keys and BPM from Producer's Pad. It drafts and advises only: it never books a show, contacts a venue or sends anything, and you send every message yourself. It does not see setlists or other documents in Artist Retreat (paste a setlist into the chat to have it ordered), and it has no venue capacities, fees or mileage data, so it asks, or leaves a blank in double braces (like {{expectedTurnout}}) for you to fill in, when a detail is missing. An email it drafts has "Use in this pitch", "Save as email template" and "Copy" buttons under it (see Pitch Email & Sequences).
Local Scene vs. main Contacts
Venues you add in Local Scene are copied into your main Contacts list automatically, as venue contacts, and stay in step when you edit the venue here. Promoters, artists, media and other entries are not copied. Any scene entry with an email address has an Email button that opens a message you send from your connected Gmail; that message is not logged as a pitch. To track a pitch with a status and a follow-up date, add the person in Contacts if they are not there yet and use the Send icon on the contact (New Submission).
