Booking worldwide since 2005
Hotpotbee is a full-service entertainment agency. We source, negotiate and produce live entertainment for festivals, brands, venues and private clients — from a single headliner to a full stage build, handled end to end.
What we do
Booking is where it starts. Most clients hand us the date and the budget and take back a finished night.
Direct access to headliners, support acts and niche specialists. We handle offers, counter-offers, holds and contracts, and we tell you early when a name is out of reach.
Stage, sound, light, video and crew, specified against the rider rather than a catalogue. One production manager owns the build from truck call to strike.
Day-to-day representation for artists on our roster: routing, fee strategy, press, and the unglamorous admin that keeps a career moving.
Matching artists to brands without either side losing credibility. We negotiate usage, term and territory, and we say no to the ones that would not work.
Visas, carnets, freight, flights, ground and hotels. The paperwork that stops a tour is booked before it can.
Weddings, anniversaries, launches and after-parties, run with the same contracts and the same discretion as a festival main stage.
The list
Tell us the room, the crowd and the budget, and three names that fit come back the same day. The rest of the list stays out of your inbox.
From warm-up to headline, including live hybrid sets with hardware and vocals.
Chart-familiar acts and covers ensembles for audiences who want to sing along.
Dinner-length sets through to late dance floors, with horn sections on request.
Regional groups and dancers for cultural programmes and national days.
Stand-up, improvised hosting and awards compères who keep a running order on time.
Projection artists, dancers and installations for brand spaces and after-parties.
Selected work
Three nights that show the range: an outdoor festival, a routed tour and a black-tie room.
Festival · two stages
Programmed both stages, booked the headliner eleven weeks out after the first choice pulled, and rebuilt the running order without moving the curfew.
Tour · nine cities
Routed nine dates across five countries, carried the carnet and the freight, and settled every venue inside the same week the tour ended.
Private · black tie
Orchestra, a headline vocalist and three speciality acts across one evening, under NDA, with a stage change that took four minutes.
Working with us
No portals, no ticket numbers. A person reads it and replies.
Every enquiry gets a human answer inside the working day, even if the answer is that we are not right for it.
We go to the artists directly and come back with who is free, at what fee, and what the room would need to make it work.
One deal memo covering fee, terms, cancellation, rider and payment dates. Read it once and it is done.
We are in the building. Changeovers, curfews, guest lists and the awkward conversations are ours, not yours.
Who we are
Hotpotbee was founded in 2005 by promoters and production managers, which is why our shortlists come with a technical note attached. We have loaded in at four in the morning often enough to know which riders are real and which are a wish list.
The team is intentionally under twenty people. Every client is handled by someone senior, because handing a booking to a junior is how dates get lost.
References
Good to know
Still unsure? Email [email protected] — we answer every enquiry, including the ones we cannot take.
Because a published fee is not a real fee, a rider is not a suggestion, and a cancellation at short notice needs somebody with relationships. If none of that worries you, book direct.
Room size, audience, budget and what the night has to achieve. We deliberately include one name you have not thought of — that is usually the one that gets booked.
We go again, at no cost. Getting the first shortlist wrong is our problem, not yours.
Yes, and we price them honestly. Booking someone on the way up before the market notices is one of the few real bargains left in this business.
A named production manager from truck call to strike, plus the booker who sold you the show. Not a runner with a clipboard.
Written schedule at contract stage, funds held where the deal requires it, and a full settlement sent within the same week as the show.
Enquiries
City, date, capacity and a budget range are enough to get real names and real fees back.
A person reads every message. If we are not the right agency for your night, we will say so and point you somewhere better.