Over the years we built a wide network of experienced tourstaff. We are in close contact with people who can take care of tourmanagement, FOH, merch, drive your van or what else you need from them.
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They have worked with various clients over the years, from Ice Cube to Type O Negative, from The Reverend Horton Heat to Danko Jones. Since our people know the European club- and festivalscene very well, they can provide you with usefull tips, and in many occasions they already know who to work with at the venue or festival you will be playing.
Of course they can also give advise on pricing, sizing and when to order your next batch of merchandise. Remember; Europe is a collection of many different countries, all with their unique laws, inhabitants and so on.
Usually, we bring you into contact with them, so you can discuss everything directly. We do not charge extra for this service, as we both benefit if you work with our preferred staff. There is also a comments section on the bottom of this page where you can place a request for staff, or staffmembers can put their details so bands can contact them.
If you expect to need staff, please try to inform us way ahead of your tour because most of the professionals always try to plan a few months ahead.
So you are an experienced tourmanager, roadie or foh and looking for jobs?
If you landed on this page because you ARE an experienced tourmanager, roadie, or else and would like more jobs, you can scroll down and fill in your details so it’s easy for our other visitors to contact you. Please make sure you include at least the following details:
- Name – so people know how to address you
- Correct e-mail address – so we can contact you if necessary
- Website – your MySpace or Facebook, bear in mind that our visitors can contact you DIRECT through this link; we (Merchsupply.com) are not necessarily involved
- Details – make sure you include bands you worked for, tasks you can handle (FOH, merch, tourmanagement, driver etc), availability, and if you like even price.
In case you need your complete tour produced; nightliner, backline etc.
We can help out as well. Some of the companies we work with on a regular basis arrange many tours and can assist you with all your needs. In this case we also bring you into contact free of charge and you can take matters in your own hand from that point on.
2002:
Ignite driver
Right Direction (supporting Slapshot) driver
Death Threat driver
Eighteen Visions/Throwdown driver
Born From Pain (Resistance Tour ‘02 w/ Biohazard, Hatebreed, Agnostic Front, Discipline, All Boro Kings) driver
2003:
Blood For Blood driver
Inhuman driver/tour manager
Pistol Grip (supporting Dropkick Murphys) driver/tour manager
Kings Of Nuthin’ driver/tour manager
Youth Of Today driver/tour manager
Integrity driver/tour manager
Vision driver/tour manager
2004:
Rag Men driver/tour manager
The AKAs (supporting Less Than Jake, Heideroosjes, Yellowcard) driver/tour manager
Street Dogs driver/tour manager
Discipline driver/tour manager
Over My Dead Body driver/tour manager
Street Dogs & The Briggs (supporting Flogging Molly) tour manager/merchandiser
As I Lay Dying driver/tour manager
Throwdown (supporting Lamb Of God & As I Lay Dying) driver/tour manager
2005:
Street Dogs (US, supporting Social Distortion & Backyard Babies) driver/merchandiser
Street Dogs (supporting Millencolin & The Lawrence Arms) tour manager/merchandiser
The Atomic Bitchwax driver/tour manager
Amen driver/tour manager
As I Lay Dying (Hell On Earth tour w/ Heaven Shall Burn, Evergreen Terrace, Agents Of Man, End Of Days & Neaera) driver/tour manager
Since The Flood (supporting Madball & Sworn Enemy) driver/tour manager
Street Dogs driver/tour manager
2006:
Terror, Blacklisted & Donnybrook! tour manager
The Atomic Bitchwax driver/tour manager
Fear Factory (supported by Misery Index) merchandiser
Young People driver/tour manager
Strapping Young Lad merchandiser
Most Precious Blood, Ringworm & Damnation AD tour manager
Fear Factory merchandiser
Discipline driver/tour manager
Agents Of Man driver/tour manager
FVK/Cro-Mags tour manager/merchandiser
2007:
The Chariot, Becoming The Archetype & Shaped By Fate tour manager
Merauder & Enemy Ground driver/tour manager
Street Dogs, Dead To Me & Twopointeight tour manager
Type O Negative (2x) merchandiser
Cold As Life, H8 Inc. & Human Demise driver/tour manager
Gorgoroth, Enthroned & Tyrant tour manager
Shining, Hellsaw & Skitliv tour manager
2008:
Asrai driver/tour manager
Chimaira, Maroon, The Sorrow & Dead Shape Figure tour manager
Samael, Gothminister, Sybreed & Ayin Aleph tour manager
Hate Eternal, Cephalic Carnage & Skeletonwitch tour manager
Bleeding Through & Throwdown tour manager
Ice Cube merchandiser
As I Lay Dying (supporting Killswitch Engage) merchandiser
Danny Diablo & Skarhead driver/merchandiser
As I Lay Dying & Story Of The Year (Rockstar Taste Of Chaos tour w/ Atreyu, MUCC & Horse The Band) merchandiser
Gorgoroth, Averse Sefira, Artisian & Zebadiah Crowe tour manager
Discipline driver/tour manager
2009:
The Ocean/Burst, Bison BC & Medeia tour manager
Thrash & Burn European Tour w/ Bleeding Through, Darkest Hour, Beneath The Massacre, Carnifex, War From A Harlots Mouth, Arsonists Get All The Girls & Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky tour manager
Discipline, Stigma & Wisdom In Chains (US tour) merchandiser
Down merchandiser
Summer Seek And Destroy w/ Misery Index, Hate Eternal, Beneath The Massacre & Psycroptic tour manager
Discipline driver/merchandiser/tour manager
Absu, Pantheon I, Razor Of Occam & Zoroaster tour manager
Comment by Jeroen "Jay" Sanders — October 29, 2009 @ 7:09 am
Tourmanager, Driver, Roadywork, Merchandiser
1999 – 2009 Heideroosjes and Peterpan Speedrock
contact:
http://www.myspace.com/elcaminobas
http://www.facebook.com/basvanbaal
skype: basvanbaal
Comment by Bas van Baal — October 29, 2009 @ 9:24 am
2007:
BloodTrial: Roadie
2008:
Disloyal: Driver/Roadie
BloodTrial: Roadie
Forgettoforgive: Driver/Manager
2009:
BloodTrial: Driver/Roadie
Forgettoforgive: Driver/Manager
Unchained Breathing: Driver/Roadie
Chain of Dogs: Driver/Roadie
I own a backline and a van, I’m intrested in smalltime weekend tours and festivals.
Comment by Bas van der Lee — November 1, 2009 @ 4:54 am
Soundtechnician(FOH), Stagemanager, Recordings
Comment by Evert Matthijssen — December 4, 2009 @ 6:59 am
Main job:
Guitar/Bass Technician + Merchandise Manager
Other roles:
Stage Manager, Assistant Tour Manager, Session Musician
Where are you based? (City & country):
Manchester, UK
Bands / Artists toured with (as what):
Vans Warped Tour, The Used, Rolo Tomassi, All That Remains, The Haunted, The Maple State, +44, Hit The Lights, The Audition, Appease, Motion City Soundtrack, Sherwood, The Hush Sound, Over It, The Smashup, Valencia and many others
Companies worked for:
Warner Bros. Records, Gorilla Fist Clothiers, Bench clothing
Contact:
E-mail: tristanmatthew@gmail.com
AIM/Skype: xjohnnynostarsx
References/Rates available upon request!
Comment by Tristan "Tadley" Matthew — January 8, 2010 @ 10:35 am
Merchandiser / roadie / tour manager from Helsinki, Finland.
2006:
Misery Index (supporting Fear Factory) roadie
2007:
Misery Index & Origin (supporting Necrophagist) merchandiser
Moonsorrow & Swallow The Sun merchandiser
Misery Index & Dew-Scented merchandiser
2008:
Misery Index (co-headlining w/ Despised Icon) merchandiser
Rotten Sound, The Ocean, Victims & Trap Them tour manager
Cryptopsy, Beneath The Massacre, Ignominious Incarceration & Trigger The Bloodshed tour manager
2009:
Misery Index, Hate Eternal + Aeon merchandiser
2010:
Hypocrisy & Survivors Zero merchandiser
Contact:
http://www.myspace.com/leviculus
Skype: voidhead
AIM: HelsinkiSUB
Comment by Petri Eskelinen — January 11, 2010 @ 1:10 pm
Main Roles: Merch Guy, Audiovisual Production
Secondary Roles: Any job you give me and being a nice guy
Based in Ibiza, Spain
American film/production graduate fluent in Spanish, English, and Catalan.
Experience working on tours in Midwest, America. Most recently “The Blend” in 2008.
Available any time, any place in Europe (that’s accessible within a day or two) Varying rates.
Contact:
nate.tuenge@gmail.com
Skype: natetuenge
Comment by Nate Tuenge — January 12, 2010 @ 11:23 am
Stars ‘n’ Strings/MERCHANDISE MANAGEMENT:
YeahYeahYeahs (US)
UK tour 2009
Dubtrio (CAN)
European Fall Tour 2009
Matisyahu (US)
Europe tour October 2009
Faith No More (US)
Second Coming tour Europe June
Second Coming tour Leg 2 August 2009
Nashville Pussy (US)
From Texas to Hell tour Europe March 2009
Cradle of Filth (UK)
The Darker tour Europe April 2009
The Darkest tour Europe November 2008
**For References please send an email**
Comment by Anika Jacobs — January 14, 2010 @ 12:03 pm
ROLES: Production & Tour Assistant, Merchandiser, Artist & Hospitality Liaison, Band Assistant
Secondary roles: Wardrobe
Based in: Greece (most of the time)
Secondary base: Germany or New Zealand
DUAL NATIONALITY (BILINGUAL): NEW ZEALAND / GREEK
Passports(2): Greek (EU) and New Zealand
TOURS:
Doro Pesch
Arch Enemy
Destruction
as well as traveling for “one off” shows (not part of tour)
2009: AGENCY WORK
Agent’s Assistant at Noisegate Productions
Handling:
Tours in Europe, Asia, Australia & NZ, USA
Tour pre-production
Band production and Artist & Hospitality Liaison at RockHarz Festival, Germany 2009
LOCAL SHOWS
2003 – 2009 [Six years (6)]
Promoter’s Assistant and Production & Hospitality Assistant for one of the largest and most successful European Promoters and Production Companies, mainly dealing in the Balkan – Mediterranean territory.
Occupational positions:
–Managing Director’s Personal Assistant
–Promoter’s Personal Assistant
–Production Assistant.
–Promoter’s Representative (including travel with artists and crews locally for shows, undertaking representative and production duties).
–Transportation Supervisor / Ground Transportation + Flights (Plan, co-coordinate and supervise band and crew transportation)
–Hospitality Supervisor / Hotel Accommodation
EVENTS / PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
Worked for more than 160 major productions.
Type: Rock, Metal and Pop shows, Dance Events, Orchestral shows, Flamenco Productions, Festivals
Venues: clubs, arenas, stadium, theatres and out-door venues.
Some of the shows I have worked for locally are listed below:
Metallica, Madonna, Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, Heaven & Hell, Depeche Mode, Kylie, Kiss, Linkin Park, The Offspring, Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Tool, Muse, Manic Street Preachers, The Cure, Lenny Kravitz, Queensryche, Sting, Roger Waters, Motorhead, Alice Cooper, DIO, Duran Duran, Leonard Cohen, Robert Plant, Patti Smith, Jethro Tull, HIM, Placebo, Slipknot, Scorpions, Prodigy, Primal Scream, plus many more. The list is far too long!
LANGUAGES:
Fluent in English (native speaker)
and Greek (native speaker)
COMPUTER SKILLS: Excellent knowledge of computers (MS Office Word, MS Office Excel, MS Office Outlook, PowerPoint, E-mail, Internet, Adobe Photoshop)
**For further info / references please email**
Comment by Marina "Ina" Charalambous — January 30, 2010 @ 8:08 am
Head of Merchandise for Manowar at the following Events:
- Magic Circle Festival 2008 (Bad Arolsen)
- Death to Infidels Tour 2009 (Finland, France, Spain, Romania, Norway, Germany, Russia) / Magic Circle Festival 2009 (Loreley)
- Death to Infidels World Tour Leg. 1 2010 (9 Shows in Germany and 1 in Holland)
Languages:
English and German
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