One for the Road: How to Be a Music Tour Manager

mark workman

One for the Road

How to Be a Music Tour Manager

“Workman provides a witty and entertaining read.” –Revolver Magazine

Mark Workman

MEET MARK WORKMAN

Mark Workman was a successful lighting designer and tour manager in the music business from 1983 to 2015.

His list of former clients includes Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Motorhead, Machine Head, Danzig, Devildriver, Mudvayne, Dio, Queens of the Stone Age, Soulfly, Sepultura, Keel, Steeler, and many others.

He’s a former boxing writer whose feature articles appeared on BoxingScene.com and FoxSports.com. 

One for the Road: How to Be a Music Tour Manager

One for the Road

How to Be a Music Tour Manager

As the music business continues to undergo many dramatic changes, music groups are quickly discovering that to build and sustain a successful career, they must stay on the road and do as many shows as possible each year. Because of this, skilled tour managers for music groups are now needed more than ever.

In One for the Road: How to Be a Music Tour Manager, Mark Workman shows you how to become a tour manager for a music group in any genre of music, how to organize a music tour the right way, how to complete one effectively; and how to build your career as a music tour manager into a successful one.

Written with an acerbic wit and brutal honesty, Mark Workman pulls no punches when telling you what it’s like to tour the world with a famous music group.