Artist Advancing Agency · DACH Region

We look after your artists. You look after your festival.

Backstage Bureau is the first specialist artist advancing agency in the DACH region. We handle the entire artist management process — from rider review to the final shuttle departure.

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The Foundation

What is Advancing?

Advancing is the complete end-to-end process of managing artists at a music festival — from the moment a contract is signed to the moment the last shuttle leaves the grounds.

Every festival already does it. You review riders, coordinate shuttles, set up greenrooms, answer emails from management and agencies. Advancing is the invisible workload sitting between booking and showtime.

The difference: until now, this has always fallen on your own team — on top of everything else. We are the first agency in the DACH region dedicated exclusively to doing this job professionally.

"Every festival does advancing. The question is whether your own team should carry that load too."

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What Advancing covers

Rider management — technical and hospitality riders reviewed, annotated, confirmed
Logistics & transport — set times, soundchecks, travel, hotels, shuttles
On-site artist care — backstage liaison, greenroom, stage management
Communications hub — interface between management, agencies and production

What We Do

Our Services

Rider Management

Technical and hospitality riders reviewed, annotated, confirmed. Every requirement checked before you even have to think about it.

Logistics Coordination

Set times, soundchecks, travel, hotels, shuttles, airport transfers. All coordinated, nothing forgotten.

Artist Care

Backstage liaison, greenroom setup, catering per rider, artists on stage on time, safe transport out.

Information Hub

We're the central interface between artist management, booking agencies and your production team. Nothing falls through the cracks.

160+ artists, 6 stages, 1 festival — and everything ran.

In the Netherlands, outsourced advancing is industry standard. In DACH, we're the first.

You outsource stage construction, hospitality and security. Why not advancing?

Why Us

The difference you'll feel.

160+ artists, 6 stages, a full festival season — right in the heart of advancing. That first-hand experience shapes every process we build for your festival.

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