Rockstar Agency places production crew, lighting and sound engineers, stage managers, tour managers, festival crew and music-industry talent into UK promoters, venues, festivals and touring productions. Permanent placements only. One named consultant per client.
"They sent us a stage manager who'd already done arenas. Hired her on the spot, kept her for the whole tour and signed her permanent."
Three pillars that hold every search together.
Our consultants come from the live industry. Crewing arenas, running festival stages, mixing FOH, managing tours. We know the difference between a backline tech who has done sheds and one who has only done club rooms.
References, recent credits, RTW and tour-readiness all checked before a CV reaches your inbox. The candidate you meet is the candidate who can roll out on Monday.
The consultant who takes your brief is the one who shortlists, briefs candidates, manages offers and follows up post-show. No queue of account managers. No handoffs.
Production, touring, festivals, venues, music industry admin and talent representation across the UK.
Production managers, stage crew chiefs, riggers, set carpenters and pyrotechnics specialists for arena, theatre and festival productions.
FOH and monitor engineers, lighting designers, lighting operators, system techs and PA crew chiefs for tours, festivals and resident venues.
Stage managers, deputy stage managers, ASMs and company managers for touring shows, residencies and large-scale productions.
Tour managers, assistant TMs, accountants on the road, advance teams and travel coordinators for UK and international touring artists.
Event producers, festival producers, brand-activation leads, conference producers and live-experience producers for promoters and brands.
Festival site managers, area managers, stage managers, ticketing leads, accreditation crew, traffic-management leads and welfare coordinators.
Label coordinators, music marketing managers, A&R admin, royalty analysts, sync coordinators and music publishing executives.
Booking agents, agent assistants, contracting and clearance specialists, day-to-day artist managers and creative talent reps.
Event coordinators, production assistants, venue ops staff, hospitality leads, runners and on-site logistics coordinators.
Guitar techs, bass techs, drum techs, keyboard techs, multi-instrumentalist techs and band technicians for tours and resident productions.
Tell us the role, the dates, the size of the show. Vetted shortlist within a week.
Hire CrewFour steps. No drawn-out kick-offs.
30-minute call. Role, scope, dates, scale, budget, start. Written confirmation back, same day.
We approach our network and active candidates, vet credits, references and RTW, and hand you a tight shortlist within a week.
We coordinate interviews, support negotiation, manage references and contracts. Offer accepted is the only acceptable outcome.
Day-7, 30 and 90 follow-ups with hire and hiring manager. We are paid to keep placements in seat.
The live music, touring and events industry runs on relationships, credits and the kind of judgement that only comes from having been on the bus. Generalist agencies do not understand the difference between a stage manager who has done a 3000-cap shed and one who has only done club rooms. They do not know which lighting designers are tour-ready and which are studio-only. They do not know which event producers can hold a festival site at 50,000-cap and which start to flap at 5,000.
Rockstar Agency was built because that judgement matters. Every consultant on our desk has come from the live industry. We know the credits, we know the cliques, we know the reputations. When you brief us on a tour manager for a UK / EU run with a developing arena act, we are not pulling CVs out of a database. We are pulling names out of our heads.
We do not do day-rate freelance bookings. Every placement we make is a permanent direct hire. Senior roles, in-house production, label, agency, promoter and venue jobs. The roles that, when filled with the right person, define a season for the business that hires them.
Music industry hiring is a network business. The conversation that matters is between someone thinking about their next career move and someone they trust. We staff our desk so one consultant runs the full lifecycle: brief, search, offer, aftercare. That consultant builds a relationship with you that lasts beyond a single hire.