https://vo.rs/tags/booking/Latest from the Booking desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 14 May 2023 14:31:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/the-headliner-slot-how-the-festival-pecking-order-is-set/<p>Look at a festival poster and the hierarchy reads itself: three or four names in enormous type across the top, a denser slab of medium-sized names underneath, and right at the bottom a wall of tiny lettering nobody photographs. That typographic pyramid looks like taste. It is closer to a balance sheet. Every name&rsquo;s position on that poster was fought over by booking agents months in advance, and the closing slot on the main stage on the final night — the actual headline slot — is one of the most contested pieces of real estate in live music, decided by a mix of hard commercial data and old-fashioned ego management that rarely makes it into the marketing copy.</p>Sun, 14 May 2023 14:31:00 +0000