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Sean Collins

Full working picture — the tours, the machinery behind each move, contacts, sensitivities and the live task board. The client-facing version (JR → Sean) lives at sean-collins-hub.pages.dev; the live tour working view is the tour calendar. This one carries everything Sean doesn't see.
Updated 6 Aug 2026 — TOTNES CONFIRMED (Sat 13 Feb, and it's a fee-then-split, not a promoter date) · TIVERTON's full timing block in but the contract Steve said he'd attached does not exist · The Stand held until after the Fringe on JR's call · press quotes cleared for use · Yuk Yuk's web resupply built · the master show database brought current after 8 days behind.

Friday 7 August — today

🛑 The Tiverton contract arrived — and it names JR personally HELD — goes Monday

Steve resent it 7 Aug 06:27. Real this time — 178,188 bytes, byte count matching the header exactly, a genuine Word file. Checked in a way that could have come back negative, unlike the last one.

⛔ Party (2) reads "Big Laugh Boutique representing Sean Collins plus support". BLB Ltd dissolved in February, so a trading name binds the individual behind it — against an uncapped one-way indemnity and a £500 + VAT cancellation fee. That is exactly the personal exposure the SCJ entity lock exists to contain.

📞 JR has texted Steve to say he'll go over the contract this weekend, so the reply goes MONDAY MORNING with his own amendments in. Nothing sent.

⚖️ Albert AL-009 — Critical as drafted, Low after eleven fixes, no solicitor

20 amendments: 11 must, 7 should, 2 optional. Critical is assigned on unbounded personal exposure, explicitly not on likelihood — a 311-seat comedy night, and Steve has been straight throughout. ⛔ Do not sign the current document in any form.

⭐⭐ The lever nobody had: Comedy Hall's own published standard terms are the same template. The 1.5-hour show, the support-act liability, the "+ VAT" on the cancellation fee and the 3.2 cross-reference were all added on top of his own wording. So the ask is "please revert to your own terms" — not "please change your terms".

▶ Two decisions owed: the reissued contract comes back to Albert before signature (one fix must land in three places and is the likeliest to return half-done) · should the 11 must-fixes become a standing rider for the remaining ten dates? This is date 1 of 12.

🔴 Albert corrected two things I had given JR as fact

(1) Clause 3.2 exists — it is the Indemnity clause. I reported it missing. Word stores those numbers as numbering data rather than characters, so stripping the tags could only ever return "absent" — a check that could not fail. It inverts the conclusion: 6.2/6.3 are not symmetric. Our side is £500 + unlimited; theirs is £500 flat.

(2) The money is £3,266 at capacity, not £3,918. The 70% is normally worked out after VAT. Budget the lower figure.

🛑 And five things I missed, biggest first: clause 4.2 — any breach, at any time, forfeits the whole fee (no materiality, no cure, no time limit) · no force majeure at all on a date eighteen months out · PRS charged to us twice · 9.3 bans sub-contracting while 3.1/9.4 require a support act · deed wording that could double the indemnity's life to twelve years.

✅ Creatures answered — straight 60, no interval MANCHESTER SETTLED

Tom, 7 Aug: "Since the slot is only one hour, I'd encourage not running an interval if the show is 60 minutes, and do our best to start on time." ⭐ The 4 August read was right and the room has now confirmed it — Manchester is the one exception on the run.

He also offered to find the support. Declined per JR — we bring our own.

🛑 But their ticketing form cannot be filled: it requires a Google sign-in. Followed the short link to the real address — HTTP 401, "You must sign in to access this content." No Google account here, and JR's standing rule is no Google sign-up. That is very likely why it has sat since 28 July. A draft to Tom is staged giving him every answer in the body instead. ❓ JR weighing one narrow Big Laugh Boutique Google account purely for venue forms.

💷 Komedia — last field answered, and it is NOT a price rise

Interval ≈ 20 minutes. That was the only field still open, so Brighton's form is complete.

On his £23 / £19: £20 + £1 levy + £2 booking fee = £23, and £16 + £1 + £2 = £19 — exact both ways. So our £20/£16 stands and the customer simply sees the fees on top. ⚠️ That is an inference, not something he wrote — the line to get back is that the 70% of net is calculated on the £20, not the £23.

🎨 New spec, and it is a third cut: 800×800 square, no writing — alongside portrait for Yuk Yuk's and 16:9 landscape for The Stand, plus physical print for Tiverton. ⭐ The standard supply-pack argument has now made itself three times. ➕ He will display 3 × A3 posters for six months if we send them.

🎤 Support acts + running order — JR's rulings, now standing

We supply our own support, a different local opener per town — no travel cost, and a local act brings their own crowd into a town where we hold no list. Tony Marrese takes the West Country (Tiverton + Totnes).

⚠️ He also promotes Totnes on 70/30, so he sits on both sides of that date — does he take a support fee on top of his promoter split? JR + Reed, not me. ❓ Is Cardiff inside "the West Country"? Asked, not assumed.

⏱️ Preferred running order: support 15–20 → interval → Sean's FULL hour. A straight hour is fine too, and any permutation is available. ⭐ Venues want the interval because it is when they sell the beer — a bar decision, not a format demand.

📋 A support-act register now sits at the top of the show database — one line per date, so "confirm all support act status" is answerable in one place. The question is live on Sean's client hub.

⚖️ Three more standing rules locked today

1 · Never "my" in a venue mail — it is "Sean's", "our" or "we". Not just style: JR is the agent, SCJ is the party, so "my fee" and "my liability" contradict the very paperwork we are asking Steve to correct. 32 corrections applied to the Steve draft; none left.

2 · Every piece of promo showing a price carries "* subject to venue booking fee". Posters, calendar, web copy, socials, listings, supply packs — because levies and fees differ room to room.

3 · Invoicing. ✅ Every agreement on all twelve dates is to SCJ Entertainment Ltd, and every settlement is payable to SCJ. ⏳ Whether JR or Sean raises the invoice is OPEN — so no contract names an individual as payee, and no invoicing person is named to a venue until JR decides.

✅ Yuk Yuk's took the resupply — in 41 minutes

Francesca Tersigni, VP Operations: "We will happily change the bios and image. However, we do not have the ability to add and image for the link."

New photo and copy going up on Ottawa ×2 + Toronto. 🛑 The missing share image cannot be fixed — that is their platform, not an oversight. Shares stay bare links. Closed.

⚑ Not ours, but flagged

⚠️ Two card declines inside a day — Canva payment failed for Vandalism360 (insufficient funds) and Amazon Prime paused. Same shape as the Wix bill that quietly took Sean's AND Steve's websites down on 3 August. Worth JR checking which card sits on what.

⚑ albert@v360hq.com bounced 554 again — Albert had to send his report from Victor's address. It must be created in Proton account settings; it cannot be done via Bridge, SMTP or the MCP. Second session running it has cost a workaround.

⏳ Still silent: Glee (Adam — the chase was due today) · Neptune Halifax (second silence — a phone number, not a third email) · GRUB · Solé Farr · Vulcan County. ⛔ The Stand: Fringe hold stands, not chased.

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Thursday 6 August — previous

✅ Totnes CONFIRMED — and the deal is not what we had SAT 13 FEB

JR, 6 Aug: "totnes have confirmed the 13th Feb." The date is booked, not pickable.

⚠️ The old record here said "Tony Marrese promotes on 70/30, a promoter date not a hire". That was wrong and is dead. JR: "we pay the flat fee from the tickets after, and split with tony." → gross ticket income → flat venue fee paid out of takings after the show → remainder split with Tony.

⭐ Nothing leaves our pocket before the show — no deposit, no cash at risk on the night. 🛑 But the fee is the first claim on the pot. 120 × £20 = £2,400 at capacity, ~£1,440 at 60%, ~£720 at 30% — the fee comes off the top of whichever it is before anyone splits.

⏳ Fee and split both still open — JR's, with Tony, and he owns the paperwork. He has played the room several times over the years, so his read beats any modelling from here.

🎪 Tiverton — everything answered except the contract CONTRACT MISSING

✅ Steve Lodge answered the entire timing block unprompted — the first venue on the run to do it. Get-in Fri 5pm · doors 6.30 (auditorium held to 7pm if Sean sound-checks at 6) · show 7.30, 20-minute interval · out by 10.30. Free parking; Sean has played there; happy for him to meet the audience after; 16+ unless stated.

🛑 He wrote "Contract attached" and nothing was attached. Verified three ways — message metadata, the raw structure (one HTML part, 4,973 bytes) and every link in the body. Exactly the Leeds "venue pack attached" miss. Resend requested on today's board.

⚠️ NEW TERM: he wants 15% of merch. First appearance. Left out of our reply deliberately — per-act commercial is JR and Reed, never me. It will be in the contract, so it needs answering before signature.

🛑 And he intends to go live the moment he has artwork — which breaks the all-dates-announce-together rule. Hold requested. JR calls him Friday 7 Aug about the monthly club nights (up to £5k a night, both rooms, through 2027 — a roster relationship, not a Sean date).

⛔ The Stand — held, on JR's call DO NOT CHASE

JR, 6 Aug: "hold on tammie, shes busy, its fringe week and they are in the thick of it."

The 33%-heading-to-39.6% question, the per-room accessibility wording (Edinburgh is not accessible and the duty is ours) and the per-room age limits all wait until after the Fringe.

✅ Nothing is at risk. The acceptance was contractually effective on sending, Albert cleared the agreement, and all three dates are secure. Her silence is a Fringe auto-reply, not a problem.

📚 The master show database — brought current FIXED

It had fallen eight days behind — last touched 29 July while a full week of confirmations happened around it. The work was getting done; the record wasn't keeping up.

Now current across every record, and carrying a new standing-rules table at the top: the SCJ entity, Albert's acceptance wording, £20/£16, no allocations, all-dates-announce-together, the interval, the eight-field timing block, accessibility being ours. Those are the exact things that kept getting re-proposed to JR after he'd already ruled on them — because they lived only in the decisions log, which is read as a tail.

✅ Press quotes — cleared for use everywhere JR

JR, 6 Aug: "include all quotes, they are valid."

"The funniest person I've ever seen" — The Independent · "Expert comedy, done effortlessly" — The Scotsman.

⭐ This lifts the standing "verify at source before print" hold on both lines. They can now go on every venue supply pack, all web copy and all print — not just the Yuk Yuk's pages. It's the ingredient the venue copy has been missing.

🎨 Yuk Yuk's web resupply — built, not sent AWAITING JR

🛑 Measured, not assumed: they're serving a 300 × 212 landscape thumbnail into a portrait slot with a 400px minimum height. The page upscales it ~2× and crops the sides — 4× on a retina screen. That's the "crap artwork, all unsized".

✅ Supplied 900 × 1200 portrait, cut from JR's own approved 2026 stage shot. ⭐ One image per comedian, so it fixes Ottawa, Toronto and every future Yuk Yuk's date at once. ⚠️ It's a profile-photo slot, not a poster slot — re-cutting the poster set into it would crop the type to nonsense.

✍️ Copy rewritten: one blurb, both pages, one line changed for the city. Ottawa's page carried no credits at all while Toronto's carried the full CV; neither carried a press quote; Wafik Nasralla wasn't named. 🛑 No og:image on either page, so every share of a show link is a bare grey link — their template, asked for politely.

🛑 No verified contact at Yuk Yuk's — Sean self-booked all three and the published addresses are fundraising and stag lines. Get the name from Sean. Supply page live at sean-collins-yukyuks-supply.pages.dev; board staged, nothing sent.

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Wednesday 5 August — previous

🔒 Contracting entity — LOCKED JR

Every UK tour agreement is now made to SCJ Entertainment Ltd, 37 Bury Crescent, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 3TZ, co. 06734322. JR signs on Sean's behalf, admin-wise, and will send Sean an email setting out all terms.
⚠️ Use this exact wording on every agreement — Albert's correction, because "arranged by John Robson" states a role, not legal authority:
"This acceptance is given for and on behalf of SCJ Entertainment Ltd by John Robson of Big Laugh Boutique, its duly authorised agent."
Why it matters: BLB Ltd dissolved Feb 2026, so "Big Laugh Boutique" and "John Robson" are the same legal person with no corporate veil. Naming SCJ keeps the ticket contract, VAT, refunds and the 48-hour cancellation liability inside a company.

🏴 The Stand ×3 — ACCEPTED EXECUTED 5 Aug

Edinburgh Thu 4 Feb · Glasgow Sat 6 Feb mat · Newcastle Sun 7 Feb mat. Roughly a third of the run, now contractually agreed.
Albert reviewed it first (AL-008): market-standard, safe to agree, Low–Medium, no external counsel.
⚠️ The real venue take is 33%, not 30% — the 3% commission and 30% facility fee stack, and their invoice likely adds VAT on top, which SCJ cannot reclaim. Possibly 39.6% all-in, worth ~£625 across the three. Query sent, awaiting Tammie.
⚠️ Their show confirmation has no signature block — it is accepted by email, so the acceptance email is the execution.
⚠️ Edinburgh is NOT accessible, and as promoter of record it is our duty to state that on our own ticket page. Their wording requested per room.

🎟️ Komedia Brighton — form returned SENT

Sat unanswered five days. Now back in full: entity, £20/£16, allocations none, PRS applicable (Sean walks on to music — not claiming exemption), 120 words of web copy, artwork specs requested.
⚠️ On-sale date deliberately left open — it governs the whole run.
⚠️ Correspondent is Sam Moore, not Will Robinson.

🎪 Tiverton — terms in, room is bigger Fri 12 Feb

Steve Lodge: 70/30 ours, £18 ticket, contract offered same day and accepted.
311 seats, not the ~300 on file — plus a 200-seat black box we did not know existed. At £18 × 70% = £3,918 at capacity, ~£2,350 at 60%.
⭐ The bigger prize: monthly "top end" club nights through 2027, last Sunday of the month, across both rooms — up to £5k a night for a headliner he knows will sell. We have asked whether he wants us to source the whole bill, including headliners from outside our roster. A recurring booking relationship for the roster, not a Sean date.

🎙️ Creatures — the blocking question asked AWAITING

Their ticketing form has been outstanding since 28 July — longer than Komedia's. It asks for a running time, and their slot is a fixed 6:45–7:45 box. Asked Tom whether a straight 60 with no interval works, and whether they supply a house support. Form goes back the moment he answers.

📋 Paperwork — checked on disk THIN

One document exists for the entire twelve-date run — The Stand's show confirmation.
✅ Trinity IoW is HALTED (JR, 6 Aug) — those hiring forms are no longer owed, and the "first thing to move" flag is dead. Sat 23 Jan goes to Gosport instead. ⚠️ Dinah Bowman is still owed a courtesy line.
⏳ Inbound: Tiverton contract · The Stand agreement.
❌ Nothing at all: Totnes · Cardiff WMC · Top Secret · Southampton Attic · Glee.

💷 Prices & on-sale SET

£20 full / £16 concession across every room including all three Stand dates. London £25/£20. Tiverton is Steve's own £18.
On sale: within a fortnight, every date announced together through Sean's socials. One date governs the whole run — not named to any venue yet. The Stand invited to state a preference, being the biggest rooms; everyone else routes around them.

📮 Nine emails out ALL VERIFIED SINGLE

Komedia · Tiverton · Creatures · Glee (chased) · Neptune Halifax (chased, both addresses) · GRUB (declined warmly, kept live for next run) · Vulcan County · Solé Farr · The Stand.
Vulcan and Solé both played as route-builders — no fee quoted to either. Vulcan offered 16 Oct 2027 at CAD ,500; Alberta is west and October is a separate trip from the spring run.

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Friday 31 July — previous

🎭 London is in PENCILLED

Top Secret, Sun 28 Feb. JR spoke to Mark, the owner, direct. The flagship closer is held and the South-East cluster is pinned.

✉ Komedia asked SENT 31 Jul

Fri 26 Feb, Studio, to Will. It was the only Friday in the closing weekend he offered (Feb Studio avails 10/11/12/14/17/18/26) so the date picked itself. 70/30 already agreed — no money reopened. Awaiting reply.

✅ Trinity paperwork in

Dinah Bowman (twiga321@gmail.com) sent the hiring forms and asked that we reply direct to her, not the CAODS secretary line. Acknowledged 31 Jul — full confirmation next week.

🔻 Leeds dead — confirmed

Isabelle gave the caps: snug 45, basement 85. We had ~150 on file. A third under tier — this is now fact, not a judgement call.

🆕 GRUB Manchester — warm, wrong dates

Greg Maguire, tech@grubmcr.com: "we'd love to host Sean's show." Offered Fri 22 Jan / 5 Feb / 12 Feb + a hold on 29 Jan. All four collide — 22 Jan is Sean's own Attic, 5 Feb Scotland, 12 Feb Tiverton, 29 Jan Creatures. ⚠️ They have stated neither capacity nor terms. Two questions drafted to Greg, not sent. Creatures is not definitively the better room until those come back — their 6:45–7:45 slot is the early one, the venue's own showcase runs later.

⭐ Totnes is a proven sell-out

The 2024 show in that exact room, promoted by the same person, did 97 online + ~20 on the door in a 120 room — it sold out. Sat 13 Feb is far safer than we had it. ⚠️ Standing lesson: door sales never appear in a ticketing export, so any platform figure is a floor, not the gate.

📊 Audience database built

1,420 fans merged off Wix (Sean 340 · Steve 634 · Craig 257). JR's rule: joining any act list auto-joins BLB — so Sean can be introduced to 888 people who've never heard from him, and his identifiable UK reach for the on-sale goes 38 → 259. Master + segments in AGENTS/Maggie/state/contacts/.

Handle With Care

Read before any outbound. These never appear on the client hub or in anything Sean sees.

Team invisibility Hard

Sean is not yet aware of the wider V360HQ team. Everything to Sean reads as JR personally. No agent names, no "we've got someone on it", no system language. Client hub is authored in JR's first-person voice.

Health / stamina Sensitive

Heart attack Feb 2025, fully recovered and working — never referenced publicly. Directly informs UK tour density: show-count + how tight the routing runs is Sean's call. JR having the stamina/preferences chat before we lock density.

Do-not-engage promoter Blacklist

The promoter behind the 2024 Canada underpay (−50%) and the Kill Tony UK visa fallout is on do-not-engage. JR to confirm the name for the formal list. Do not route any Canada/UK date through them.

Hot Water — banned Hard flag

Sean is banned from Hot Water (Liverpool + Manchester rooms) — do not approach. Frog & Bucket / Fairfield are the Manchester alternatives.

Naming lock: Good To Be Here = the live TOUR · Hometown = the already-recorded SPECIAL released ONLINE · "homecoming" does not exist — never use it. All first venue contact is JR's (Rule #1).

Snapshot

🇬🇧 UK Tour Jan–Feb 27 12 dates · 1 gap

Good To Be Here · late Jan → Feb 2027. Shape is done — Solent · North-Midlands · Scotland · West Country · the February finale. LST is OUT (pulled — hire risk); London = Top Secret, JR direct. Only open slot is Sat 27 Feb. Full detail → tour calendar.

🎪 Tiverton TERMS AGREED

Fri 12 Feb · TCAT · 311 seats + a 200-seat black box. 70/30 ours, £18, contract requested. Plus a monthly club-night series through 2027 — up to £5k a night — now in conversation.

🇨🇦 Canada Spring 27 = priority

Autumn 26 run confirmed (4 shows, self-booked). JR's stated priority is now spring 2027 — 400-seat East run, Halifax-anchored. 🛑 Gated: ask Sean who books him in Canada before any approach.

🎧 Audio products 5 tools live

Halifax cut Sean-approved. Legal/commercial passes run on all 5; Uncut vs Commercial editions. V360 Audio rights vehicle drafted, ball with JR.

🎬 Hometown Online prep

Recorded, awaiting JR music/credits change → online sale (Cooper+Reed) + reels + audio + SiriusXM.

UK Tour — strategy & venues

Late Jan → Feb 2027 · UK. ⚠️ This section was three weeks stale — rewritten 29 Jul. The old plan ("LST is the routing gate", Ireland closing the run) is dead. Current shape: five clusters — Solent (Fri 22 / Sat 23 Jan) · North-Midlands (Thu 28 – Sat 30 Jan) · Scotland + Newcastle (Thu 4 – Sun 7 Feb) · West Country (Thu 11 – Sun 14 Feb) · the February finale (Fri 26 – Sun 28). LST pulled (~£2k hire risk, and Sean has his own Southampton show that weekend) → London is now Top Secret, Kingsway, JR chasing the owner direct. Ireland parked as Sean's own later leg via his own promoter. Density still Sean's call; JR has stated 8–12 and we're at 13 — so the live question is what comes out. Live working view → sean-tour-calendar.pages.dev (gated hometown).

📮 Where the outreach stands 31 Jul

Six confirmation mails went out in JR's name on 28 Jul (Sent 4151–4156, each verified single). Five have now replied (Trinity + Leeds landed since): ✅ Creatures (accepted + settled) · ✅ The Stand ×3 (all confirmed — with a contract, see the card) · 🔻 Leeds HPBC (replied, doesn't work — recommend dropping). Still silent: Glee Bham · Trinity/CAODS · Neptune Halifax — chase from Fri 31 Jul.

📞 Tiverton — TOWN HALL, JR calling 29 Jul

✅ Identified by JR: it's Tiverton TOWN HALL — council-run, St Andrew Street EX16 6PA, 01884 253404, tivertontowncouncil.gov.uk. (My first read was Comedy Hall — wrong, retired. Comedy Hall stays on file as a separate live promoter lead in the same town.) Council quotes up to ~200 across two rooms, the Town Hall and the New Hall — some listings show 60 for meeting layouts, so confirm which room, seated, for comedy. ~200 is inside the 120–200 tier.

📅 Ask FRI 12 FEB · fallback THU 11 · never offer Sat 13 (Bristol's, and it would backtrack). 🛑 The question that decides the date: straight council hall hire, or is somebody programming comedy there? A bare hire = we carry the risk and all the marketing in a town with no list — the weakest model. They approached us, so someone is probably programming it. Find out who.

🎨 Venue artwork — PARKED, to be built as one batch JR, 29 Jul

JR: "make the posters a bit different for the UK… park the artwork for venues until we have more assets and more venue requirements, then do a bulk of venues at once." Agreed — and the stronger reason isn't efficiency, it's coherence: build The Stand's now and it becomes the UK look by accident, with everything after it either copying or drifting. Built once, across the run, it's a decision.

📋 Requirements register live at the foot of blb-show-database.md — one row per venue, every spec captured the moment it's stated, so nothing gets chased when we build.
⏱️ Runway is real but not unlimited. Shows are late Jan–Feb 2027, it's July 2026, and comedy on-sale is typically 3–6 months out. ⚠️ But parking artwork parks the on-sale — The Stand can't go live without an image. Wants a target date so it doesn't drift.
✅ Nothing else is blocked. Prices, the interval, Sean's company details, the agreement via Albert and the on-sale date all progress without artwork.
⚠️ Collect venue LOGOS as we go, not in the batch — cheap inside a live thread, tedious to chase twelve at once.
⚠️ The Stand want LANDSCAPE 16:9 + hi-res print. Our whole Sean set is portrait — that's a new cut, and it needs sizing into the brief rather than discovering on the day.
🧭 Routes via Aria — she briefs, Pixel builds, Victor gates, JR approves. Canada set (Archivo Black) is the reference to deviate from. Not mine to set the look.

🏴 The Stand ×3 — CONFIRMED, and it comes with a contract 29 Jul

Tammie: "these are all in on our side, too." Edinburgh Thu 4 · Glasgow Sat 6 mat · Newcastle Sun 7 mat — all three confirmed, show-confirm doc attached and saved.

🛑 "We require intervals for all shows." Sean's show is a straight hour — an interval means restructuring it into two halves across all three rooms. That's a change to the act, not the paperwork. JR ↔ Sean, and it blocks the on-sale because Duration is one of the fields they need.
💷 The deal is not a plain 70/30. 3% commission on GROSS via their box office + a 30% venue charge on ALL NET sales, including tickets sold by other agencies. So a ticket hub or any other seller does not avoid the 30%.
🛑 VAT is ours. They act as host venue + disclosed ticket agent; the promoter declares VAT on all sales. → Clara + Albert, and it ties straight into the live V360 entity/VAT work.
🛑 We must nominate a "Third Party" name for their site — and that is who the settlement is paid to. Decision needed before on-sale: Big Laugh Boutique / John Robson / V360.
⚠️ Cancellation: inside 48 hours we're liable for venue staffing costs + a 3% admin charge. Small, but real, and it's three rooms in one weekend.
🛑 They've asked JR to "read over and agree" the amended Tour & Third-Party agreement. That's a contract carrying VAT liability, a settlement payee and a cancellation liability — Albert reviews before anyone agrees. Not mine to wave through.
📋 Also needed to go on sale: ticket prices (⚠️ their members always get the concession price, so the concession we set is the member price) · 16:9 LANDSCAPE artwork + a hi-res print version — our poster set is portrait, so a new cut is owed · web copy · on-sale date · presale yes/no (+ a code word if yes).

⚖️ Tour money structure — SETTLED BY JR, 29 Jul Model locked

Sean's Ltd is the contracting party. Named Third Party at The Stand = promoter of record = signatory = payee. Settlements go direct to Sean's company. BLB stays clear of it — no ticket contract, no VAT, no cancellation liability — and invoices Sean for the work, with full transparency to him throughout. If Sean registers for VAT, that's his and his accountant's to handle. JR will likely ask Sean for an advance on the whole tour once the dates are locked in.

✅ Why it's the right shape: the liability sits with the party earning the box office, and BLB's exposure drops to nil. The alternative — settlements through us — gives natural security but hands us the VAT, the customer contract and the 48-hour cancellation liability.
✅ Authority to bind — CLOSED BY JR, 29 Jul. "I trust Sean, and I'd rather deal with Sean than customs and excise over the VAT at the mo." I'd flagged that JR agreeing terms for Sean's Ltd without written authority could land back on JR or BLB if something went wrong. JR's call, and the reasoning holds: the alternative is BLB carrying the ticket contract and the VAT, i.e. swapping a small counterparty risk with a trusted partner for live HMRC exposure. He's taken the trade knowingly. Closed — no further paperwork chased on this. (For the record, the point was never about trusting Sean — it was paperwork hygiene that protects JR if a venue dispute goes sideways. Noted once, not pressed.)
📋 What we need from Sean before The Stand can go on sale — we hold none of it: registered company name (as at Companies House) · company number · registered address · VAT status (+ number if he registers) · his signature on the show confirmation · the authority line if JR is agreeing on his behalf. JR's conversation, not mine — commercial lane. Worth pairing with the interval and the advance so Sean gets one call, not three.
⚠️ Still worth one sentence to Sean: the turnover point, BEFORE he signs. As named promoter, all gross ticket income across the tour is his company's turnover — not just his fee — and VAT registration is a rolling 12-month test. He may not know that. JR's position (his accountant's problem) is the right division of responsibility; telling him after he crosses the threshold is how goodwill gets lost. One sentence in the call.
📌 Advance timing: JR's call is on lock-in, made with the on-sale-vs-booked trade-off in front of him. Logged, not re-argued. My note stands on the record: booked isn't sold.
📌 Sequencing: The Stand need the third-party name and details before on-sale — so Sean's company details are now on the critical path for Scotland.

🎫 Creatures — settled 29 Jul

£15 / £20 / £25 confirmed by JR. 20% external allocation DECLINED — not worth the extra accounting. So Skiddle sells all 100: one settlement, one party, nothing to reconcile. Knock-on to hold in mind: no buyer data comes off this show, and the tour ticket hub becomes a signpost to Skiddle rather than a seller. Next: fill their ticketing form → forms.gle/rEx3RppYjTq9hjsi7 → on sale.

⚠️ Seasonality — DON'T open early Jan JR

JR flag (2026-07-06): first fortnight of January is dead for live — audiences are "Xmas'd out" (skint post-Christmas, dry-Jan, cocooning); venues quiet by nature. So weight the run to the BACK HALF of Jan → early Feb when demand recovers (Stand avails run to 6–7 Feb — use that Feb tail). Don't be fooled by the Stand's heavy early-Jan availability (2–3, 9–10) — that's soft-demand supply. Implication for Trinity: late-Jan dates (23/30) are now commercially good dates, not a problem — see revised date read below.

🆕 Creatures Manchester — the reply, and the one decision in it

Creatures Comedy Club, Manchester ACCEPTED · Fri 29 Jan

42–44 Oldham St, Northern Quarter (basement under Wilson's Social) · ~100 seated (corrected 28 Jul — we had 110 and 150–200 on file, both wrong) · Tom Stanimeros, Creative Operations · Info@creaturescomedy.com · 07733 146 380. Manchester's only dedicated comedy room, 15+ gigs a week.

Slot: 6:45–7:45pm, fixed. Tom, 28 Jul: "We don't offer the later show slot as it is our main showcase." Asked and answered — no later room.
Price + tiers are ours. "Happy to run the price and tiers however you would like." So £15 / £20 / £25 stands unless JR moves it. Their own touring names (Paul Foot, Matt Forde) run £15/£20/£30.
Ticketing: Skiddle, their system. They've offered a 20% external allocation if we want to sell through Sean's own channels.
Deal: split, no hire fee → zero downside on the room.
⚑ Action on us: fill in their ticketing form to go on sale.

My read: 6:45 is early, but it's a fixed hour in the right room with nothing at risk. An early-doors hour at £15–20 in a full 100-seater is a far better first Manchester night than an 8:30 room we'd have to pay for. JR's own rule decides it — a full 120 beats a half-empty 250.

⭐ The 20% allocation is the real decision here — the only part that needs a call rather than a yes. Taking it means ~20 tickets sold through Sean's site and socials, so we keep those buyer details instead of Skiddle keeping all 100. That's the first live test of the ticket hub, and the start of a UK list we'll want when Canada goes on sale. Recommendation: take it.

Trinity Theatre, Cowes 🛑 HALTED 6 AUG → GOSPORT

🛑 HALTED BY JR, 6 Aug: "we are halting trinity iow. going to push for gosport instead." Gosport takes the Saturday — no ferry, and Sean is on his own patch. ⏳ Which room, and who approaches it, both still open. ⚠️ Dinah Bowman is owed a warm line releasing the date — she returned the paperwork in a day and has heard nothing from us since 31 July. Detail below is historic.

The Grove, Cowes, IoW PO31 7QR · 199 seats · run by CAODS · 01983 295 229 · caods.org.uk. Terms: 70/30 in Sean's favour.

✅ JR locked Sat 23 Jan on 28 Jul — the Solent weekend. Sean's own Southampton Attic show Fri 22 → ferry → Trinity Sat 23. Open since 6 July; now closed.
Knock-on that mattered: it keeps Sat 30 free for Glee Birmingham. Taking the 30th would have cost us the Birmingham night.
Support: local island acts — Sean sorted it himself.
Model: community theatre hire + self-promote → we carry the marketing.
⏳ Awaiting CAODS on hire paperwork (mailed 28 Jul). ⏳ Reed still owes the local-press + targeted-social costing — JR's marketing plan for the island, and a spend gate.

Venue board — current as of 29 Jul 2026

Date / leg	Venue & contact	Status	Detail
Fri 22 Jan Solent	The Attic, Southampton	SEAN'S OWN	Sean's own "Good To Be Here" date (theatticsouthampton.co.uk, £15). Not ours to sell — we route the weekend around it.
Sat 23 Jan Solent	GOSPORT — room TBC (Trinity Theatre IoW halted 6 Aug)	JR PUSHING	199 · 70/30 our favour. JR locked 28 Jul. Ferry from Southampton. Awaiting hire paperwork; Reed owes the marketing costing.
~~Thu 28 Jan~~ North	Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds · Isabelle · contact@hydeparkbookclub.co.uk	🔻 DROPPED	❌ DEAD — caps confirmed 31 Jul: snug 45, basement 85 (we held ~150 on file; a third under tier). Original three problems: (1) Thu 28 isn't available; she offered nothing later than Sat 17 Jan (2/3/4/10-pencilled/12/13/14/17). (2) Five of eight are in the dead first fortnight; only Thu 14 is arguable. (3) The room is 45 — she proposes going on sale in the "snug" (45-cap) and upgrading to the basement only if it sells fast; basement cap unstated, and our ~150 figure is now unverified. ⚠️ "Venue pack attached" — nothing was attached (verified via MCP, raw IMAP and BODYSTRUCTURE). No terms offered at all. 📉 Kills the three-night northern run → Fri 29 + Sat 30 two-nighter. Rec: drop warmly, come back next tour.
Fri 29 Jan North	Creatures Comedy Club, Manchester · Tom Stanimeros · Info@creaturescomedy.com	✅ ACCEPTED	~100 · split, no hire · 6:45–7:45pm fixed · price CONFIRMED £15/£20/£25 · Skiddle sells all 100 (20% allocation declined — accounting) · ticketing form to fill. See card above.
Sat 30 Jan Midlands	Glee Studio, Birmingham · Adam Jaremko · adam@glee.co.uk	1st pencil	Studio room; Sean sold 85 there in 2023. Pencil + paperwork requested 28 Jul. ⚠️ Glee = Birmingham only (declined Cardiff).
Thu 4 · Sat 6 · Sun 7 Feb Scotland + Newcastle	The Stand ×3 · Tammie Beattie (cc Eva@thestand.co.uk) — not Keir	✅ ALL 3 CONFIRMED	🆕 29 Jul: "these are all in on our side, too" + show-confirm doc attached. Edinburgh Thu 4 (8pm, 140) · Glasgow Sat 6 matinee (220/270) · Newcastle Sun 7 matinee (280). Deal: 70/30 net + 3% commission — but read it properly: 3% on GROSS via their box office AND a 30% venue charge on ALL net sales including other ticket agencies, so selling elsewhere does not dodge the 30%. VAT is ours to declare (they act as host venue + disclosed ticket agent) → Clara/Albert. We must nominate a "third party" name — that is who the settlement gets paid to. 🛑 Interval required for all shows → Sean's hour has to become two halves; JR↔Sean. 🛑 New Tour/Third-Party agreement + cancellation policy needs agreeing → Albert reviews first.
Fri 5 Feb Scotland	non-Stand Scottish room — JR sourcing	JR direct	Òran Mór / Monkey Barrel / Glee Glasgow. Needed because the Stand gives no Fridays.
✅ Fri 12 Feb West Country	🎪 TIVERTON COMMUNITY ARTS THEATRE (TCAT), ~300 tiered · promoted by COMEDY HALL — Steve Lodge, laughs@comedyhall.co.uk	✅ LOCKED Fri 12	✅ Locked on WhatsApp 29 Jul — approached us that morning, closed same day. ⭐ A PROMOTER DATE, NOT A HIRE — Steve carries the room, the local push and the risk; no hire fee and no marketing spend from us. ⚠️ 300 is above the 120–200 tier and would be the second-biggest room on the tour; fill risk sits with a promoter who knows his town. ⏳ Steve is emailing details — we wait, then ask only the gaps. 🆕⭐ He also wants to discuss a MONTHLY NIGHT in the area — JR pulling Tony in if worthwhile. 📌 My first read (Comedy Hall) was right; the "Town Hall" retraction was the wrong turn.
✅ Sat 13 Feb West Country	Things Happen Here, Totnes — via Tony Marrese	✅ 120 · 70/30	✅ PINNED 29 Jul: venue = Things Happen Here · cap 120 · Tony promotes on 70/30. ⭐ A promoter date, not a hire — Tony carries the room and the local push, so no marketing spend from us. 120 is inside the tier and sized to look full. ⏳ Still to get: address, tech/get-in, logo, on-sale mechanics.
Thu 11 / Fri 12 Feb if it lands	Bristol — Comedy Box (web form) · Gaffe / Harry Allmark (#4027)	BONUS — not the plan	🔄 Demoted 29 Jul. Was the Saturday; Totnes has it now. Bristol only comes in if it lands, taking whichever of Thu 11 / Fri 12 Tiverton doesn't — which would make the West Country a four-nighter again. Gaffe ~150, auto-ack only, silent since 16 Jul. Nothing lost: it was the least certain piece of the weekend.
Sun 14 Feb West Country	WMC Cardiff — Cabaret · Aled Lloyd Rees · cabaret@wmc.org.uk	Hold to send	⭐ 150 — the anchor, cap hard-verified. WMC Sundays only, so it closes the weekend. ⚠️ Valentine's. Send board ready, not fired.
Mon 15 Feb (option) West Country	P Pub Comedy Club, Swansea · Ppubcomedyclub@gmail.com	Maggie owes draft	Warm — intro via JR's mate Chris, who told them to expect JR. West of Cardiff. Cold enquiry still not drafted.
Fri 26 Feb Finale	Komedia Brighton — Studio · Sam Moore / Will Robinson · programming@komedia.co.uk	✅ Locked (JR to fire)	Studio ~90 · 70/30 our favour. Feb Studio avails: 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 26 — the 26th is their only Friday. JR's call: stay in the Studio, main-house chase dropped.
Sat 27 Feb Finale	🔍 THE GAP — a South-East room on the Brighton→London line	Maggie to scout	The only open slot on the whole tour. 120–200 tier. First-pass candidates named but UNVERIFIED: Tunbridge Wells · Canterbury · Guildford · Portsmouth · Reading · Croydon. Needs the same verification method as the 16 Jul 150–200 re-scout.
Sun 28 Feb Finale	Top Secret Comedy Club, Kingsway, London — JR's own contact (owner)	JR direct	~120–150 TBC. Replaces LST. ⭐ Sunday is the smart ask — they run their own Fri/Sat bills. ⚠️ Honest caveat: a London Sunday sells softer — trade-off accepted to close on the London flagship.
Ireland	Sean's own Irish promoter	PARKED	Its own later leg. ⛔ Dublin (Laughter Lounge) pencil HELD — do not send · Belfast never opened · Smock Alley declined.
Manchester — the relationship play	A Lovely Time Productions · hello@alovelytime.co.uk · John Stansfield + Chris Cantrill	PARKED (JR)	⭐ Manchester's real door is a promoter, not a venue. Programme Fairfield + Cultplex, place acts into The Lowry, take shows to Edinburgh Pleasance. Built-in ladder: Fairfield £16 → Lowry £24.50. JR: approach only if Sean sells fast at Creatures — going in with a sales number beats a cold hello.
❌ Out	Leicester Square Theatre · Frog & Bucket · Smock Alley · Liverpool corridor · Hot Water	Closed	LST pulled (~£2k hire risk; withdrawal emailed to Jo). Frog & Bucket declined 16 Jul (Aimee Perry — but sent a 12-venue Manchester list). Smock Alley declined. Liverpool corridor dropped with Ireland. 🚫 Hot Water = Sean banned — and they're the dominant NW promoter, which is exactly why Manchester is structurally hard for us.

Routing law (JR, locked 16 Jul): West Country = Cardiff · Bristol · Devon as ONE weekend — Bristol never mixes with Manchester/Leeds · North England runs with Scotland + Newcastle · Birmingham is flex · Ireland closes as its own leg. Room size: regional 120–200, London ~400 flagship only — fullness, not capacity: rather a full 120 than a half-empty 250. Confirmation-stage rules: 🚫 never ask a venue about a deposit ("send whatever you need and I'll turn it round") · 🚫 never name another territory's tour · always offer artwork in any size + the ticket hub via Sean's own site/socials, unprompted. Files: state/contacts/blb-venue-database.md (rooms) · state/contacts/blb-show-database.md (the dates).

Canada — confirmed run

29 Sep → 2 Oct 2026. Sean self-booked direct (4 emails 3–5 Jul to jr@biglaughboutique.com). Wafik Nasralla support. Delhi/Capitol 33 dropped for a 2nd Ottawa night. Our value-add = poster + paperwork + ticket-link chasing.

Date	City	Venue	Time	Tickets
Tue 29 Sep	Ottawa	Yuk Yuk's (Ottawa West)	7pm	On sale yukyuks.com/ottawawest/show/sean-collins-44317
Wed 30 Sep	Ottawa	Yuk Yuk's (Ottawa West)	7pm	On sale 2nd night
Thu 1 Oct	Toronto	Yuk Yuk's	—	Link pending
Fri 2 Oct	Sudbury	True North Comedy Fest Gala · Radisson	—	Link live

Poster In production

GTBH poster → portrait print upgrade w/ final dates. Routed Aria (direction) → Pixel (build) → Victor (gate) → JR. ⚠️ Blocked on Canva reconnect — Pro renewal revoked the connector token; Sean's source art in Canva. Reconnect Canva to unblock re-export. Interim: could rebuild from web hero if Canva stalls.

Toronto agreement Sean happy → JR signing

Yuk Yuk's Toronto Oct 1 performance agreement (blank PDF, email 28854). Update: Sean's happy with it — long-standing relationship — JR getting it signed & returned. JR flagged "not perfect to me but he's happy." ~~Albert review~~ stood down per JR. CEO sole signer holds.

Ticket links

Chase Toronto on-sale link as it comes online. Ottawa ×2 + Sudbury live/banked.

Hometown · Content · Commercial

Hometown special JR owns

Recorded + complete; JR changing intro/outro music + credits (music source/clearance via Solomon+Albert). Then: online sale page (Cooper build + Reed commerce) behind the music change → reels (LaughCut) → audio product → SiriusXM pitch (Maggie+Melissa, gated on lock).

Content model

Film shows → post consistently → productise catalogue. Socials: FB 920K · IG 150K · TikTok 81.8K/1.6M · YouTube (~1.15M total, live-verified). Sean set up in LaughCut pipeline.

Commercial

Corporate £6–10k (NHBC active). Brand/sponsor inbound = Maggie triages → Reed prices → Aria/Melissa brand+repu → Clara contract → CEO. Verbal verification before any money talk.

SiriusXM

JR has the contact. Pitch Hometown once music/credits locked. Steve/Craig legacy = secondary pitch.

US touring — agent & room map

Groundwork only — no approaches made. Sean's US home = the club circuit (150–400-seat clubs; the "club week" = one headliner Thu–Sun, 5–8 shows in a room). Theatres (400+) come later on proof. We go in via one credible agent, warm door preferred; the real gate is the O-1/P work visa (Albert+Clara), not the agent. Time it to ride the Canada spring run + SiriusXM. Full docket: session-files/2026-07-21-sean-collins-us-touring-agent-room-map-v1.html.

Route	Who	Fit
UK-bridge warmest	Avalon · Off The Kerb · Mick Perrin Worldwide	UK agency w/ US arm — gets Sean's profile, covers both territories in one hire
Canadian warm	Yuk Yuk's booking · Just For Laughs · his Canadian agent	Already plays Yuk Yuk's; JFL = US booker gateway; hands him across the border
Indie promoters	Outback Presents · Mills · AEG / Live Nation	Package routed multi-market runs (clubs→theatres)
Touring/club agents	Summit Comedy (Rich Miller) · Levity Ent. Group	Mid-tier headliners into the club circuit — Sean's tier
Club-direct	Zanies · Comedy Works · Helium · Cap City bookers	Strong-online act can go direct for a weekend — first toe in
Big four later/if	WME · CAA · UTA · Gersh	Theatre/A-list — only if online converts; warm intro only

🔑 The warm door — Sean holds the keys

30 yrs touring North America → he very likely has a US/Canadian agent, a Yuk Yuk's/US booker, or comics who'd intro. First move = ask him who reps/books him over there now. Beats any cold list.

Angles for us

Canadian (not a cold foreigner) · SiriusXM airplay = US radio presence · ~1.15M online = ticket power · the Canada spring run = the "extend into the northern US" springboard.

⛔ Gate = visa

O-1/P work visa, months + cost → Albert+Clara scope before any US promise. Not the agent.

Live task board

⏳ On JR

⏳ Tiverton: wait for Steve Lodge's email, then ask only what's missing
🆕⭐ Steve wants to discuss a MONTHLY NIGHT in Mid Devon — pull Tony in if worthwhile
🛑 THE STAND: settle the INTERVAL with Sean — blocks the on-sale on all three rooms
🛑 THE STAND: route the Tour/Third-Party agreement to Albert before agreeing — VAT, settlement payee, 48h cancellation
📞 ONE CALL WITH SEAN covers it all: the interval · his company details + signature · the authority line · the turnover point · the advance
💬 The money conversation with Sean is yours alone — I stay in the operational lane
🛑 THE STAND: ticket prices (the concession you set = the member price) + on-sale date + presale yes/no (+ code word)
🔻 LEEDS: drop it? (rec: yes, warmly) — or push Thu 14 Jan after they resend the pack
🛑 Ask Sean who books him in Canada + is anyone on commission for theatre work — gates every Canadian approach
✅ Komedia Brighton Fri 26 Feb — SENT 31 Jul, awaiting Will
✅ Top Secret London — PENCILLED Sun 28 Feb (JR ↔ Mark, 31 Jul)
Fri 5 Feb — source the non-Stand Scottish room
West Country: Totnes date (via Tony) + Boho Cardiff direct
⚓ GOSPORT — which room, and does JR, Sean or Maggie approach it? (Trinity halted 6 Aug, so the island marketing costing is dead too)
Confirm the do-not-engage promoter name
Finish Hometown music + credits
Unanswered >5 days: Sean's airplane-bit link · Dan Dion / Goat Song · Craig's IONOS query

▶ On Maggie

🔍 Scout the Sat 27 Feb SE room — 120–200, Brighton→London line, caps + bookers verified properly
🇨🇦 Build the Canada 400-seat East-run room map (Maritimes · Quebec · Ontario) — needs a fresh tab
Chase: Glee (was OOO to 6 Aug — give him today) · Neptune Halifax (autoresponder only, second silence — find a phone number). ⛔ NOT The Stand — held until after the Fringe.
🎨 Build the 16:9 LANDSCAPE artwork + hi-res print version for The Stand — our poster set is portrait, this is a new cut. Plus web copy.
✅ Fill Creatures' ticketing form — price + allocation now settled, this is unblocked
Swansea P Pub cold enquiry — still owed
⚠️ Dinah Bowman (Trinity) is owed a warm line releasing Sat 23 Jan — she returned the paperwork in a day and has heard nothing since 31 July
Steve: Leicester Sq raw-stage re-cut + probe the 3 video files' embedded audio
Keep client hub · ops hub · tour calendar in sync

✓ Done

Trinity IoW LOCKED — Sat 23 Jan (open since 6 Jul)
Creatures Manchester accepted + terms answered
Finale locked 26–28 Feb; break moves to March
6 confirmation mails fired in JR's name, each verified single
Manchester solved — the answer was a promoter (A Lovely Time), not a venue
Tour calendar rebuilt v8 → v13; show database built (per-date operational record)
Audio: 5 listen-through tools live; Sean approved Halifax
Canada autumn 26 run confirmed + integrated; Toronto agreement with JR

Sean Collins — Ops