Zachary Douglas

Role: As an Artist Liaison for MCD, I am assigned to represent the company in venues such as The Academy, The Academy 2, The Academy Green Room, The Sugar Club, The Workman’s Club, The Workman’s Cellar, The Grand Social, Whelan’s, Whelan’s Upstairs, Opium, The Button Factory and Liberty Hall.

Key Responsibilities (MCD): Coordinate travel and logistics for represented artist engagements, including but not limited to booking flights, ground transportation and hotel accommodations, facilitating the processing of required artist visas, coordinating with venue production staff regarding the technical rider, the in-house technical spec and all miscellaneous production requirements and logistical details, keep up-to-date artist schedules and travel details, generate itineraries, manage the dissemination of itineraries and the communication of engagement details with artists, promoters and venues, schedule artist interviews as requested by the promoter or artist management, serve as the artist point-of-contact on-site before, during and after each show, provide on-call support after hours to handle any unforeseen issues, source the artist’s hospitality rider and

settle all outstanding payments/fees with the venue after the show.

Role: From 2018 - 2022, I worked as the Head Booker for The Button Factory, which is one of Dublin's most historic live music venues, before also taking on the role of Operations Manager from 2022 - 2023. During my time in The Button Factory, the company saw record growth and commercial prosperity breaking all previous records such as the highest year end profit, most live music shows in a calendar year, highest earning live music show, most corporate events in a calendar year and highest earning corporate event.

In 2022, I also spearheaded the design and launch of a second, 80 capacity venue space within The Button Factory - The Crowbar Terrace, which has quickly developed a name as one of Dublin's premier boutique live music venues, playing host to Ireland Music Week, Bobbi Arlo, Efé, Le Boom, Long Island Sound and numerous other up and coming acts from across the thriving local Dublin scene.

Role: At the age of 22, I was appointed as the Head Booker for Tramline, a 1,000 capacity live music venue situated in Dublin city centre. Within this role, I also gained experience as a promoter, artist liaison and social media manager and during my time with the venue, we hosted a number of note-worthy events such as the RTÉ Choice Music Awards - Song of the Year ceremony, Hard Working Class Heroes, Other Voices 2017 launch, The Script "Freedom Child" album launch, Radio Nova's 7th Anniversary Gig, Spin 1038's "Spin Ball" and a number of in-house shows featuring The Coronas, Le Galaxie, Gavin James, Le Boom and Ham Sandwich.

Key Responsibilities (The Button Factory & Tramline): Managing the venue calendar for all live, club and corporate events, negotiating deals with artists and booking agents, constructing in-depth Profit and Loss reports for all in-house shows, artist liaison/company rep

for in-house shows, sourcing artist's technical and hospitality riders, arranging artist's flights and hotels, constructing and overseeing the promotional and marketing campaigns for in-house shows, updating the venue website, composing a bi-weekly mail out, creating and developing relationships with Irish & international promoters, meeting with potential clients, processing and facilitating outside venue hires, producing deposit invoices, drafting venue hire contracts.