Ive dealt with lots of band stage plans in the past and ive come across lots of different styles and ideas of what is acceptable. Some are good, some not so good. In this short hub Im going to show you how to draw the best stage plan an engineer, promoter, stage manager could hope for!

Remember, the idea of a stage plan is to communicate the set up and lay out of your bands to different people working at the gig. You dont always have to provide them but its good to have one prepared when you get asked for one. It should be clean, uncluttered and to the point. People will be looking at them in a hurry on a dark stage so they dont want to look at a mess of cables and coded boxes with a key next to them showing all the different routing options!

Below are a few good examples of real stage plans I have received in the past.