Stop running your band from a group chat.
Setlists, tunings, who's actually turning up, the advance pack the promoter keeps emailing about — Backline keeps it all straight, so the set's locked before soundcheck instead of during it.
Your setlist lives in six places. None of them agree.
Every band knows the pre-gig scramble. The set order is a screenshot from last month, the tunings are in someone's head, and half the group chat is "wait, am I playing this one?"
- Set orders buried in screenshots and chat threads
- Re-typing the same tunings for every show
- Chasing five people to find out who's actually available
- Rebuilding the advance pack from scratch for each venue
Build the set in minutes. Print something readable from behind the kit.
Drag songs into order, override the tuning for any song in the set, and export a clean sheet with one click.
Per-song tuning override
A song's default tuning is Drop A, but tonight you're playing it in Standard E? Override it for this set only — the retune dividers update automatically.
Clone from a template
Start from your last show or a saved template and tweak. No rebuilding the same 20-song set every weekend.
One-click PDF export
Print a clean, large-type sheet with tunings and cues — big enough to read across a dark stage.
From first enquiry to last encore.
Know who's in before you say yes to the gig.
One calendar for every gig. Members RSVP yes, no or maybe, and you instantly see who's in — no more chasing five people across three threads.
- Yes / no / maybe per member
- Confirmed and draft gigs in one view
- Availability summary per person
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Klub 007 20 Jun |
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Rock Café 28 Jun |
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Colours 05 Jul |
Invite the band. A stand-in sees the set, not the money.
Add the band, hand out roles, and pull in a guest for a one-off show. The stand-in drummer sees the setlist and the call time — not your fees, your rider or the billing.
- Owner, member & guest roles
- Email invitations with one-click join
- Guests for session & fill-in players
A library that remembers every tuning.
Save each song once with its default tuning, BPM and length. Drop it into any set from there — no typing out Drop A for the hundredth time.
- Default tuning, BPM & length per song
- Reuse songs across every setlist
- Originals and covers side by side
One PDF the venue actually wants.
Stage plot, input list, tech and hospitality rider — in one place and always current. When the promoter emails asking for your specs, you send one PDF instead of digging through last tour's inbox.
- Stage plot & input list
- Technical + hospitality rider
- Exported as one clean PDF
Find the festival, add the gig in one tap.
Search a directory of festivals and drop one straight into your gig list — dates, city and details already filled in.
- Searchable directory
- One-tap add to your gigs
A nudge before every gig. A webhook for everything else.
A reminder lands before every gig, so nobody 'forgets' the Tuesday show. Webhooks fire each confirmed gig at whatever else you run — Discord, your own site, a script.
- Automatic gig reminders
- Webhooks for your own integrations
Up and running in three steps.
Create your band
Set up the band and email the invites. Everyone gets their own login and role — no password taped to the rehearsal-room wall.
Add gigs, songs & members
Add your songs with their tunings, drop in the gigs you've got booked, and mark who's playing what.
Build sets & send the pack
Drag a set together, collect the yes/no/maybes, and send the venue its advance pack.
Start free. Go Pro when you're playing out.
If you rehearse and play the odd show, the free plan has you covered — for good. Pro adds what a working band needs out in the world: your own branding, a public gig page and the API.
Runs your whole band.
- Unlimited setlists, gigs & songs
- Members, roles & availability
- Gig reminders by email & in-app
- One stage plan & one rider
- Advance-pack PDFs (Backline-branded)
Everything in Free, plus:
- Your own logo on branding-free, bundled advance packs
- Public gig page + embeddable widget
- Unlimited stage plans & riders
- Full REST API, webhooks & ICS calendar feed
Billed per band. Cancel anytime — no card needed to start on Free.
A full REST API under the hood.
Everything you can do in the app, you can do over a documented REST API — read and write, webhooks and an ICS feed to build your own tools on top of your band's data. Part of Pro.
Read the API docsGET /api/v1/bands/7/gigs?filter=upcoming
{
"data": [{
"id": 42,
"title": "Klub 007 — Sat Night",
"status": "confirmed",
"starts_at": "2026-06-20T20:00"
}]
}
Sort the admin. Go play the show.
Built by a gigging musician who got sick of rebuilding the same setlist every weekend.