Booking

When considering Holocene for your public event:

• Live bands We do exclusively DJ dance parties on Fridays and Saturday late-nights, which means our availability for live band shows is mainly Sunday through Thursday nights, as well as early shows (pre-8pm) on weekends.
• DJ nights We also love hosting DJ dance nights on other nights of the week, i.e. Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In fact, this is often where we have the most availability even for dance nights, because the majority of our Friday / Saturday nights are typically taken up by a rotation of monthly parties.
• Draw We are typically a good fit for your event if your expected attendance / draw is 100–200 (for a Sunday through Thursday night). For a Friday or Saturday, we look for parties with a proven track record of 300–450 attendance across the night.
• Sound We are largely genre-agnostic, and interested in showcasing the wide spectrum of fresh musical styles in Portland and beyond. What captures our hearts the most is often experimental music and boundary-pushing electronic music, as this has been the cornerstone of our venue since the beginning. But we also love hosting rock bands, folk artists, pop dance nights, and on and on and on.
• Multimedia We are a uniquely excellent fit for shows and events with a multimedia component. We have an immersive venue-wide projection system, and love events that help us fully activate the space.
• House rules We can’t allow moshing, or anything that leaves a mess behind in the venue (no glitter, no confetti, no fake blood etc.). Otherwise, we’re pretty open-minded and curious to hear your pitch!

What we’d like to receive from you, when you contact our bookings team:

• Links Links to your social media and web presence.
• Your event As much detail as possible about what you’d have in mind for your event, including preferred date range.
  For a live band, this could include any bands you’d like to partner with for the event / anyone you’ve already been in touch with for a bill, or any release show plans, etc.
  For a dance night, this would include details of the DJ line up, as well as sample artwork / description etc.
• Your history Your history of performing around Portland (for bands) or throwing events in Portland (for dance night promoters), including venues and attendance levels.
• Promotion Any information about how you would plan to promote / market your event. Holocene of course helps with promotion too, in the form of sharing the event on our website, social media and email newsletters — but we need artists and/or promoters to be fully engaged in the promotion process as well.