The Dirty Linen FAQ

How to get listed in the gig guide

I want to add my itinerary/festival to the Gig Guide. How do I do that?

Email, fax, or snail mail us the info so that we receive it before the deadline. See below for where to send it. Listings are free, although it would be nice to subscribe to help support all the hard work that goes into compiling and publishing the tour calendar.

Do not send us just a website URL and expect us to harvest the information. We don't have enough employees or time to hunt around on websites.

Electronic Edition Deadlines

Deadline for the monthly electronic edition posted on our Gig Guide is the 1st of each month for the next month's update (eg., the deadline for March dates is February 1st). See the deadline chart below.

Dead Deadlines

These deadlines are dead.... no last-minute additions can be squeezed in. It takes us a full month to process all the incoming data for posting on the website, so late information cannot be added.

Allowable listings are: gigs and festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico that are open to the general public (no private, members-only, conference-only, or school-only concerts). Also overseas festivals can be listed in the "Events" section as long as complete information is received (see below).

Printed Edition Deadlines

The Gig Guide in the printed magazine has been discontinued.

Format

If sending via email, please use plain text -- no fancy formatting, MS Word files sent as attachments, JPG files of a wall poster, spreadsheet files, etc. The simpler, the better!

Info to Supply

Please supply the following info for the artist schedule section:

• Artist name
• Month/day of gig (please indicate dates that are tentative)
• Venue (optional)
• City and State/Province
• Contact phone number for more info (optional)
• Other performers on the bill (optional)
• Other short notes (e.g. "benefit," "workshop," etc.) (optional)
• Upcoming tours (e.g. "September - Western U.S.") (optional)
• Artist's booking/info phone number and/or email address and/or web page (optional)

It's very very helpful to us to put each gig on a separate line with the items in the same order as below (date, venue, city, state/province, phone). Please don't copy the list above and send it to us with your info! Too much extraneous data! Please use the format below.

Example of suggested format:

Joe Schmoe
June
(1) Fillmore West/San Francisco, CA 101/555-1212
(15) house concert/Detroit, MI 010/555-1212
July
(11) Carnegie Hall/New York, NY 212/555-1212
(12) Foo's Bar & Grill/Nowheresville, NY (w/Elvis Presley) 914/555-1212
January 2014
(1) Tranquility Base/Eagle, MN
Upcoming tours: August (Canada), Sept 15-25 (Midwest)
bookings: 888/555-1212
info: 888/666-1111
email: folkbreath@fakebarf.com
WWW: http://www.folk_mercenary.com/schmoe/

Note: if you follow this format, it's easy to add to our database. Anything else that requires a human to process may not make it in..... Anything that doesn't follow the above format will probably require re-ryping, which increases the chances for typos to sneak in (especially in phone numbers), and also decreases the chances that the the gigs will be entered at all (we only have a limited amount of time available to process the huge flood of gig info we receive every month).

For events (festivals, camps, conferences, etc.):

• Date(s) of event
• Name of event
• Location of event (City and State/Province)
• Contact address, phone number, fax number, email address, web page (Please supply at least one)
• List of performers (optional)

For events where performers are not yet confirmed, please send the rest of the information (dates, contact info, etc.) so we can add the event to the Gig Guide. Performers can be filled in for a later edition as they are confirmed.

Example of suggested format:

August 1 - 2
Halfway to Groundhog Day Celebration
Rodent State Park/Ratville, MD
123 Main Street/ Ratville, MD 20000, phone 800/555-1234, hogman@hotmail.com.invalid, www.halfagroundhog.com
The Mammals, Andrew Bird, The Animals, Gov't Mule, The Byrds, Fishtank Ensemble, Blue Moose & the Unbuttoned Zippers, more

Venues

Venues should send us the venue name, the venue's city & state (or province), and a contact phone number readers can use to obtain more information about the gig (ticket price, show time, directions, etc.) Then list the dates and performers' name(s) for each date. Sorry, we can't list venue email and website info (our software can't handle it).

Example of venue info:

Joe's Super Great Coffeehouse/East Westovia, MD 301/555-1212
3/1 Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, and Celtic Elvis
3/8 The Celtoids
3/15 Bob Dylan
3/22 & 23 The New Crusty Nostrils
3/25 Celtic Blurr

Where to send it

Itineraries and event listings should be sent to one of the following addresses:

• email to sched@dirtylinen.com (this is the preferred method). You will receive an automated reply indicating in which online update your information will be included. We cannot acknowledge receipt of itineraries sent via other methods.
• fax to (410) 337-6735
• snail-mail to Gig Guide/ Dirty Linen/ P.O. Box 66600/ Baltimore, MD 21239-6600/ USA

Please do not include any other correspondence with Gig Guide info. Absolutely NO listings can be accepted via phone.

You only need to send the info once. Please do not send us copies via multiple methods: email, fax, and snail mail. Pick one way only!!! The info will remain in our database until the dates pass. You need to tell us if things get cancelled or rescheduled.

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