ACCESSPUBLICFORVenues, promoters, festivals, open mics

Live music

Set times that hold, changeovers that end, and a band that knows it is on in four minutes without anyone going to find them.

The problem

The rundown was agreed at load-in and then drifted. The third band plays eleven minutes long, the changeover takes nineteen instead of fifteen, and by the headliner the venue is arguing with a curfew. Nobody decided that; it accumulated.

What NextSet does

Every set and every changeover is on the same clock, visible to the room and to the green room. Over-runs are visible while they are happening rather than at the end, and the finish time updates as they occur.

The rundown

Sets and changeovers are both items. A concert defaults to forty-five-minute sets with fifteen-minute changeovers; a festival to thirty and fifteen; an open mic to ten-minute slots with two-minute turnarounds. Change what is wrong.

Putting changeovers on the rundown as real items is the single highest-value habit here. A changeover that is not on the plan takes as long as it takes.

The screens

Screen	Faces	Shows
Main projector	The audience	Who is on, who is next, the clock, and anything you broadcast.
Backstage	The green room	Who is on, who is next, and how long is left — so the next band gets themselves ready.
On-stage	The performer	Time remaining, and the calls you send them: WRAP IT UP, 30 SECONDS.
Stream overlay	Whoever is watching online	The clock and current act, over your video.

Calls

Your presets are APPLAUSE, HEAT DRAW, DOORS OPEN and LAST CALL, on top of the universal timing and safety ones. Send a call to the on-stage screen only and the audience never sees you managing the night.

Competitions and heats

Battle-of-the-bands style nights, heats and draws run on the same clock, with the draw shown on the main screen. Judging and scoring are part of the competition event type rather than something you assemble yourself.

Being found

Your events appear on your public venue page and in the public directories. Artists have their own pages, and fans can follow both. Getting found covers claiming a listing and what shows up where.

Money

Tickets, tips to performers and door takings run through the platform and settle to you. The mechanics are in Collecting dues and payouts — the same payout path, whatever the money was for.