Hello Baz, i have no time to trawl through this thread (sorry) but it seemed interesting to the point i wanted to put my nose in.

i have allot of experience with agents, some good and some very bad but ALL do the same mate, pretty much sit on there arse's and do **** all until the phone rings and they email a roster over (if your lucky) and if your really lucky they aren’t Dj's who try and get all the gigs, you can sort out what they could be doing already.

There is an advantage though, you have someone to negotiate a good deal without you looking like a money grabbing bastard and deal with all other un pleasantries (please forgive spelling as usual :))

I have just started an agency "Bionic Artist Management" website is being developed now, i am on the roster (obviously) but also on board for uk and European bookings we have Sebastian Prelar and Dj Urban.

like i said in reality we will look after booking details i.e. flights schedules, hotels etc, we are aiming to do our best for our artist's, i would really love and the offer is there to look after all artists on my labels but some are tied down and i don’t want to tread on anyone’s toes.

but what we are doing is (i think) a little different to other agencies is we are actively looking for work for ALL our artist's the is having sponsored links, paid by us where if someone types in one of our artists names it will be first in the sponsored link section, so we are putting money into our artists we are actively trying to get our artists work.

what an agent as such would look for before picking you and "doing you favour of a lifetime" is that you are already getting lots of work and you will have to start putting all that work through them so they get there cut, so basically you have done the hard work already and they are taking the cream off the top.

now, i have said i have an agency now, v. small but that’s the way i want it, and i have kinda blown the lid off to the ppl not in the know, we are more into honesty though im not going to give my artist's bullshit, this is how it is basically... hope this helps

If you really cant live without an agent i will consider having you on my roster, msn me mate we will talk more