I am a one-man band from Long Island NY, got lucky and booked onto Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender in April 2023. Most people get there by flying. I'm not a fan of airports or planes so my best bet is to drive there. I decided on this after the promoter confirmed me on the festival in early October 2022. I missed being on tour more than anything else, having toured heavily in my NYC psychobilly band, The Arkhams. I needed a plan to go on tour with my one man band and fast. I have experience touring but not since 2012 and I was not the one in charge of booking it. Knowing that most of the people I knew back then were not active like they once were in the entertainment business I needed a new direction. After talking to my bandmate, Matt from The Arkhams and Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones he referred me to Indie On The Move. I saw what I wanted to see on a platform like this. Needing to learn the different venues in the different parts of the country I joined immediately with the deluxe membership and away we went Being new to actually booking shows and not just showing up to play them, I set up a consultation with Josh and Kyle and they helped me write the script for what to pitch venues when emailing them. It works 90% of the time. Being that I'm a one man band and I don't have 3-4 other people's schedules to take into account when booking shows, I take everything I can get. My originally planned 2 month tour expanded into a ln 11 month tour because every time a venue owner told me they're booked on a particular night, I would make up another date I'd be back in town and be persistent in emailing them to solidify a show at a given venue in a given market. Indie on the a move is helping me move the needle from zero to one, point a to b however you look at it. Not only do they give you a perfect pitch for venues and promoters but they also helped me pitch newspapers, magazines, radio stations and blogs. This is valuable since as soon as I confirm a show, I like to get the word out about it as best I can. While my band, The Arkhams has a lot of touring history especially in the Midwest, I have little to none with this project. I always had an idea to do a one man band but many things were clouding my decision to do it such as having a band with an incredible collaborative energy to it, not wanting to do music without them and loving having the 4 members add onto what each other was doing in real time, felt like nothing else ever. Also as that band was having lineup changes, I decided to open a taxi service on Long Island and put music on hold for a while. Thar while went from one year to 5 years to the pandemic to almost 10 years. In early 2022, I decided I waited long enough, so I needed to get some songs together as I have a massive back catalog of songs over 20 years long that never surfaced in any project I worked in up until that point. This created two full length albums by September of that year and a third one fully recorded, mixed and mastered and on the way. Josh even gave me solid pointers on scheduling my releases to better harness my audience engagement from all angles, people I actually meet at shows, people on my social media, old friends and new people who just found me for the first time. Their consultations are jam packed with good information about every aspect of my musical career including merchandise creation and marketing My tour starts on March 16th and the first leg goes until my birthday on May 22! That's two months and a week where I test the waters of life on the road for the first time since 2012. I reached out to many friends along the way who are close to the shows I'm performing at hoping they like this project almost as much as they enjoy The Arkhams. Leg 2 begins one day later on May 23 and goes until Friday September 22! This tour is going full steam ahead and Indie on the Move is helping out with a lot of what I'm doing here.

We are a band from NJ, and we were added to a show in Los Angeles that was scheduled for January 20, 2023. Through certain circumstances, we decided to drive out to the west coast, leaving NJ on January 6. We made this decision just after Thanksgiving 2022. Subsequently, we then decided to try and book some shows across the country, traveling out west and back east. We had zero experience with booking such an endeavor, let alone doing it across the United States, and it should be noted this was our band's first significant touring attempt. We contacted Kyle and Josh in the beginning of December 2022 (yes, we were still planning on leaving 5 weeks later on January 6). We explained our situation and desires to Kyle, asking him if we could book this tour with just a few weeks notice, during the holidays. We knew we were asking for the impossible, and Kyle and the team advised us that we would normally need 3-4 months for such a project. However, we collectively decided we had nothing to lose, so let's go for it. Kyle and Josh quickly pulled together an email campaign and a potential tour routing that targeted several markets across the country. They released the booking request emails on December 12, and before we knew it, we were getting positive responses. Somehow Kyle and Josh moved quickly to help us organize this cross-country tour with zero lead time and running into the holidays. In fact, we had to decline a few offers we received because of the actual routing and driving schedule. We are extremely thankful that we are involved with IOTM and met Kyle and Josh. Thier consultation and dedication to working with us and our crazy idea turned into real results, and their guidance worked. We will absolutely be working with the team at IOTM again in the near future and we promise to give them much more time to help us this time! ;) Thank you to Kyle, Josh, and the IOTM team for your dedication to helping independent bands, and also for working with a bunch a crazy dreamers like us!

I love this site! Super useful and insightful when it comes to booking gigs. I used your venues directory specifically to find information about a venue I played at in Philadelphia this past month. The show went amazingly and I credit part of the smoothness of the show to you guys for having such a great detailed description of the venue. It helped my fans know all of the information about the kind of venue and the payment system they have which turned out to be cash only. Saved a lot of people from horrible ATM fees haha! Thanks you!!

Thank you for this awesome site. I can't tell you how many gigs I've booked through it over the years. It's by far, the best resource I've ever used for independent tour booking. www.noahpeterson.com

IOTM is a great resource for independent musicians looking to get to the next level through their vast contacts and outreach strategies. Kyle and his team are fantastic to work with, and make this DIT (Do-It-Together) approach a great way to increase bookings and new venues. I highly recommend also taking advantage of their consulting service to strengthen your bands message and EPK. IOTM has a great business model and the small investment easily pays it’s back immediately! Gary Meyers - Dirty Flamenco

When I first got started in music many years ago, one of the smartest things I ever did was find Indie on the Move. I remember blindly trying to pitch bars and festivals with absolutely no idea how to get the best results. With IOTM, it gave me a foot in the door. Back then I would take anything just to get to play music for a crowd. Soon after, I caught a few lucky breaks, I sang live on Oprah Winfrey, won the Bob Dylan Songwriting Award a couple of times, and even sang with Seal in a Superbowl commercial. After that my career took off. I was no longer taking just any gig that came along. IOTM helped me find the venues that were the best fit for my music. Using their website I could isolate venues that played the style of music I play, I could only send information to venues who had live music on specific days, and it was great for booking tours. When booking tours it has all the best venues categorized by states and cities so that I can target where I want to go, and the venues in that area that are offering live music on the nights I need to book. Anyway, it makes the job so much easier. It offers contacts for festivals and colleges. All the tools to help you get your music out to the right audience. As most of us musicians know, Great music is eternal, but if even the greatest song can flop when its played to the wrong type of audience. IOTM helps you find the right crowd for your sound and in the end it makes you a better musician, and much more popular with audiences. I highly recommend IOTM as one of the greatest tools a musician can use to get established in a live music performance career. If you can fine tune your pitching abilities, and have a bit of musical talent, you can make a living in music. Thank you IOTM.

Kyle and IOTM are the best. I made a goal to do 75 gigs in 2022. I had done none as a solo artist before that. Through a lot of hard work and working with Kyle at IOTM, earlier this month I did my 75th gig of 2022. It was my #1 goal for 2022 and I reached it (and the year isnt over, I'll do almost 90 before the year is over). I could never have done it without IOTM and Kyle. This is an incredible service. I highly recommend with absolutely no reservations. Kyle is the best.

I've been with IOTM for almost 10 years. In that time, I've utilized a great number of their resources and services, including consultation, the Do It Together program and the Deluxe membership. I went from having no idea how to plan a tour to now being a full-timer with mileage, and I can thank Kyle and the team for that. The site is such a valuable resource to me and I'm so glad to have a relationship with them. I recommend them to any musician who performs or releases content. Five stars.

Our music community needs more people like Kyle and the Indie On The Move team, who truly champion the artist and understand what it takes to propel a career forward in music. At every stage of the process whether it's sending out booking pitches or tailoring the perfect EPK, you feel supported, guided and as though your career is in really good hands. Couldn't ask for anything better!

Kyle is one of the best communicators I've encountered in the music business. From start to finish, the marketing consultation provided by Indie on the Move was a great experience. The consultant assigned to our project happened to be a local musician to our hometown with years of booking experience. He provided excellent insight and was a pleasure to work with. After spending countless hours this spring reaching out to venues and trying to book shows in surrounding cities on our own, only to yield a few results, the IOTM consultation and our 1st booking campaign has yielded half a dozen quality shows in a handful of regional markets, and has also opened the line of communication to around a dozen other venues who are open to potential shows in the future. All of this in about a couple week's time and with minimal effort on the band's part (if your band has little to no published content and doesn't have much of an online presence, I'd absolutely fix that before trying to book shows- this is just my suggestion). The IOTM consultation helped us refine our booking strategy and provided great tips on ways to be more efficient and successful with booking shows. I absolutely recommend these services to any band trying to get off the ground in terms of booking! Thanks Kyle and IOTM team!