AGE RESTRICTIONS

All band members and guests must be at least 21 years of age and have a CURRENT, VALID ID ready to show. (This is a bar, after all and no, your 16 year old drummer can't wait in the kitchen until you play!)

We are very strict on this rule and do not have any compassion for any performers thinking that they can work around this.

If you claim you are 21+ upon initial booking and show up without a current, valid ID, you will not play. You will also not play if you have an ID that says you are of age, but has expired. An expired ID is NOT A VALID ID;

MUSICAL CONTENT

We will not book or support any form of blatantly malicious racist, sexist, or homophobic entertainment.
While we strongly believe in and support our rights to freedom of speech, we wish to keep the Red Room a safe and welcoming venue for everybody; so, please keep this in mind when planning your live material.

GENERAL CONDUCT

While we are a business and we rely on decent turnouts for our shows, we will not put up with any behavior from the bands/performers or the crowds that show disrespect or do anything that may cause us to put our business at risk.

This means, but is not limited to; bringing in outside alcohol, trying to sneak in minors, tagging our property or getting obnoxiously drunk.

We all trust that you are "punk rock to the core" and are a "free spirit that cannot be tamed" - or whatever slogan you choose to wear on your sleeve, but you will be expected to follow our guidelines while in our establishment or be politely asked to leave and not to return- regardless of how big your following and reputation is.

No alcohol is to be taken into our parking lot or anywhere outside the bar. No drug use of any kind in our bar or anywhere on our premises and that included that joint in your car…in our parking lot.

GENERAL INFO

We recommend that each band check out the club on a show night prior to booking in order to see the size and set-up of the room. We have been rated for a 107 person capacity.

Send us your website with mp3’s, or a MySpace site so that we can hear your sound. If you don’t have it together enough to have a website with mp3’s on it, we won’t book you.

When emailing us through myspace.com please make sure that your settings are open, so we can email you back with a reply. If you are set to not accept friend requests or emails from bands, we cannot reply to your email and aren't going to jump through hoops. Make it easy to get a show confirmed.

Before asking, or confirming a particular date, check with all your band mates FIRST, to check your collective availability and make sure you are able to play.

Although, this may seem like common sense to the majority of you reading this, we have had too many cancelations due to this issue. As you would very well hate to be confirmed and then dropped from a bill because we didn't check the calendar, first; this is the same situation on our end.

We do all IN HOUSE BOOKING ONLY! If you have been asked to join a bill by another band, one of our bartenders or booking "agent"; it is advised that you contact us via MySpace, or email, to confirm that you are, indeed booked for a particular date. If you have not contacted us, and don't see your band on the calendar, do not assume that you are booked to play. If you show up and you are not on the bill/calendar, you will not play! We have not cancelled any bands that have been booked, thus far, and do not plan to, but if you don't have confirmation on a particular date, we will not push any other scheduled bands in order to accommodate you. We keep on top of our booking and so should you.

It is understood that every band and/or performer would love to play a Friday or Saturday, but the fact of the matter is that there just aren't enough weekends in the year to make that happen. While we have weekend slots opening up all the time, if we haven't worked with you before or don't know what your draw is, we would prefer to start out on a weekday slot and see how it progresses from there.

Red Room has open shows Tuesday - Saturday nights.

Tuesday: Punk Night

Wednesday: Acoustic Night (cover varies)

Thursday: Touring & Local bands (cover varies)

Friday & Saturday: Touring & Local bands (cover varies)

BANDS ASKING TO BOOK THE ENTIRE BILL

If you are looking to put together the bill, it is then your responsibility to make sure that all bands are aware of our structure and how we operate, as well as your responsibility to keep communication with us to ensure that we don't have any gaps in scheduling. If we give you a bill to book, it is expected that you will keep in contact with us and have a show booked in a timely manner, otherwise, we will have to take back the remaining slots and get them filled.

PROMOTION

PROMOTE, PROMOTE, PROMOTE... While we do everything possible to assist in promoting, it really falls on your and your band to promote your show! Remember to mention our cover charge on all your promotional materials!

Although, we do have a local "late night" draw, it is safe to say that our show turnouts are 90% band related. This means don't slack on promoting your show because you are relying on the club or other bands to bring in the people.

Just like you would like to play to a room full of people, we would like to serve a room full of people and the best way is to promote yourself. We promote our bar, so you promote your band.

We currently promote our club and shows via club listings in the weekly Portland papers and weekly MySpace bulletins/emails and our website. For larger shows we issues press releases and other marketing outlets.

Take the extra time to do the little things that help promote your show:

Send out emails and bulletins reminding friends and radio stations about your show.

Make up posters/flyers to drop off at the venue or post around town.

Send hard copies so we can post them up around the club. We do not make copies.

Send your demo/cd to written publications for possible reviews and/or show "write up's"

Here are some link that may be helpful in promoting your show:


WEEKLY PUBLICATIONS

Oregonian
Portland Mercury
Portland Tribune
Willamette Week


RADIO STATIONS

KBOO 90.7 FM
KNRK 94.7 FM
KPSU 1450 AM / 98.3 FM
KUFO 101.1 FM

We do our best to keep on top of our booking and make sure all parties involved are well informed of any changes; so, it seems only fair that you give our club the same respect in return.

We understand that things change and some commitments cannot be met; but please let us know if you book a show and cannot make it. Aside from taking a potential bill spot from another band that would love to play, it is just plain unprofessional.

There is a big difference between 'exposure' and 'overexposure', when booking your band and it is important to the venues you book that you know the difference. We understand bands want to play as many shows as possible but, booking back to back shows, or similar, at different venues in the same city hurts the overall turnout and, unfortunately, your draw is one of the most important aspects of the band/club relationship.

LOAD IN/ SHOW TIME INFO

Load in for ALL performers is 8pm or 1 hour before the SHOW start time, not just before you or your band plays.

It is each bands responsibility to check/confirm load-in and start time.
(If you are the first band and show up at 9:15pm on a 9pm listed show because you "thought" the show was really going to start at 10pm, I would load in asap, because your set just got 15 minutes shorter!)

We REALLY stress the importance of being here at the correct load-in time, so we can make sure that all bands are accounted for, are 21+, have all possible issues handled well before showtime and are loaded in before the first band plays, as to not rudely interrupt their set.

If you are not here by start of the show, and have not contacted us to confirm that you will still be showing up, we will adjust the bill accordingly for the bands that did show up for load-in.
(EXAMPLE: If you are supposed to play second on a 3 band bill (10:30-11:15) but have not showed up for load-in and did not contact us in any way to let us know you are just running late and haven't "flaked" out, we will adjust the time to accommodate a 2 band bill and the 1st band has a choice of starting a little later, or playing a little longer, meaning that there is a chance you will not play, at all.)

Although, situations arise, please do not assume that the shows will start later than posted. We WILL NOT hold up the show an hour because you told everybody it started at 10pm and are waiting for a few friends.

On a usual bill, music will start promptly at 9:30 and all bands get 45 minute sets with 15 minute setup/teardown.

A few minutes over/ under are expected but, for the sake of continuity and the other bands on the bill, bands taking longer than 20 minutes to setup/teardown will result in a shortened set time.

Show order is determined by the club during booking. If there are any issues that cannot be resolved by time of show, the order listed is what will be followed, from "open" to "headline", first to last.


COMPS AND PAYMENT

Band payment will be addressed by our booking manager. Bands are required to stay for all sets and payment is settled at the end of the night after the last band has played.

All performers/ bands must collect payment before they leave. It is not our job to track you down and remind you to collect payment and we will NOT hold money to be picked up at a later date.

Before solidifying a date, we ask all bands to acknowledge our comp and payment agreement via e-mail to ensure that we are all on the same page". This means that you acknowledge and accept our pay structure and therefore, do not have a valid argument at the end of an evening if we didn't pay out as much as you would have liked to receive.

If there is a cover charge for the evening, bands will be paid from the money collected from the door after $97 house overhead and divided accordingly.

STAGE, SOUND AND EQUIPMENT INFO

All equipment including sound at Red Room is owned and operated by our personnel.

If you prefer to mic the equipment for strictly monitor purposes and bring your own mics and equipment, we have no problem with that, but please keep in mind that we allow 15 minutes between bands and that will add to the setup time, which possibly will cut into your set time; so, please plan accordingly.

There aren't any "house instruments" available. All bands are expected to bring all of their own gear or make arrangements to have gear ready for them when they play. This includes pics, strings, sticks, amps and cables, iPods, cd players...


The Stage Dimensions are:

20' x 20' x 1' w/ 8' ceilings (so "jumpers" need to watch their heads)

60' x 20' side area for band equipment.

It is always helpful if your band knows it's "sound" and, more importantly, how to gauge a room. Playing as loudly as possibly doesn't mean you "rock" that much harder. It usually just makes it harder to give you a good monitor mix and irritating for the people in the room. So, keep this in mind when you plan your 45 minute sonic assault, because we have all heard good bands sound bad and you wouldn't want to be in that situation, would you?

You are given 45 minute sets with 15 minute setup/teardown, but if you are chasing everybody out of the room, we will make suggestions as to how to keep the set tolerable. If you refuse to cooperate, then for the sake of the other bands that play after you and our patrons, we will make adjustments for you. Our threshold is extremely high and appreciate all forms of music/art; so, if it gets to that point, please realize that we are only doing it because it is for the good of the evening and it is not personal.

For questions about sound or our equipment please email our sound engineer, Joash Gallagher:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it