Booking sites and agencies
Where GigTag fits for a band looking at Entertainment Nation
A function band's public gigs are its shop window, and a shop window needs a door. The people dancing tonight need a way to ask about their own event. GigTag gives the band one permanent QR code on the mic stand, opening a booking enquiry form, your dates and your links. If you were looking at Entertainment Nation, this is what you add for your own gigs.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
Why function bands add GigTag to Entertainment Nation
Entertainment Nation represents bands to wedding and corporate clients. GigTag is not an agency and does not find clients. It works at the gigs you play under your own name, where a full dance floor can become direct enquiries, with no commission taken by GigTag and a page you set up yourselves.
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The dance floor becomes your pipeline
People who have danced to the band for two hours do not need a showreel. With GigTag they scan the tag, open your page and send a booking enquiry on the spot. Entertainment Nation is built to present bands to clients choosing online, so GigTag covers the people in the room.
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Enquiries come to the band
A GigTag enquiry arrives on the website or in the GigTag app and the band replies. GigTag takes no commission. For bookings you take directly, Pro gives you invoices in your own design that the client pays online. Band members can join the band on GigTag.
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Requests from a packed room
Open requests on Pro and the crowd sends songs from your list, or anything they like, into a live queue the bandleader can read between numbers. On a bar night that keeps the floor with you. It comes with the same code as your booking form.
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Every line-up on one account
Pro lets one account hold more than one act, so the full band and its acoustic duo each have their own page and code. That suits function players who go out in different sizes through the week. The free plan covers a single act.
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Printed once, never changes
The code on your tag never changes, and old links still work if the band is renamed. In the UK you can print it yourself for free or order a printed tag with free delivery. It goes on the centre mic stand at every public gig.
In short
Entertainment Nation and GigTag, in four lines
- Entertainment Nation is a UK live music agency that represents vetted bands for weddings, parties and corporate events.
- GigTag lets the crowd at your own gigs send a booking enquiry straight to the band, with no commission taken by GigTag.
- One permanent code also carries your dates, links and, on Pro, song requests in a live queue.
- Our recommendation: put GigTag on the stand at every public gig, alongside any agency representation you have.
Side by side
GigTag vs Entertainment Nation, topic by topic
Speaking to clients
The band replies to its own enquiries
The band answers. A booking enquiry from your page arrives on the website or in the GigTag app for you to reply to.
Entertainment NationClients enquire by phone, live chat or email, and its site says expert advisers guide them through the booking on the agency's side.
Promo material
A live set, plus your links
Your page links to your socials, website and music, and shows your next gig. People have already seen the band live.
Entertainment NationIts sign-up page asks acts for a professional promotional video and photos, and says a team helps to optimise that material and present the act.
Equipment and certificates
All you carry is the tag
GigTag is a tag and a page, not a roster. What you carry to the gig is the tag itself, hung on a mic stand.
Entertainment NationThe sign-up page asks bands and musicians for professional PA and equipment, with current PAT testing and public liability insurance certificates.
Contracts and cover
Keep the agency for contracts; GigTag adds invoices
For your own bookings, Pro gives you invoices in your design that clients pay online. GigTag takes no commission on them.
Entertainment NationIts site says the agency manages contracts and coordination with performers, and offers emergency support around the clock for the events it books.
Getting on board
Make your own page on the free plan
You create the act's page yourself on the free plan, and band members can join the band from the website or the app.
Entertainment NationActs apply through an online form with their details, videos and information about the act. Its site says its team vets applications and accepts a small share.
The quick view
| GigTag | Entertainment Nation | |
|---|---|---|
| A QR code your audience scans | Yes, one that never changes | – |
| Song requests from the crowd | Yes, on Pro | – |
| Tips by card or Apple Pay | Yes, on Pro, into your own Ziina or Stripe. GigTag takes 0% | – |
| Booking enquiries | Yes, on the free plan | Yes |
| Your gigs and weekly residencies | Yes, on the free plan | – |
| Invoices for bookings | Yes, on Pro | – |
| A printed tag for your mic stand | Yes, in your own design | – |
| Works without an app for the audience | Yes, it opens in the browser | – |
A dash means we did not confirm it for Entertainment Nation, not that it is missing: see what Entertainment Nation offers above, or ask on its site.
Entertainment Nation or GigTag
Where GigTag is different from Entertainment Nation
Represented, or running it yourself
With Entertainment Nation, the agency's team talks to the client. With GigTag, you do. Someone at your gig scans the QR code on the tag on your mic stand, your page opens in their browser, and they send a booking enquiry. It arrives on the website or in the GigTag app. There is no roster to get onto: any act can set up a page.
Promo video and the live room
Entertainment Nation asks applicants for professional promo material, which is how a client choosing online gets to know a band. A GigTag enquiry comes from somebody who is in the room. They have heard the band at full volume and watched the dance floor. The tag only has to make it easy for them to act on that before they go home.
Your paperwork, your design
Entertainment Nation's site says it manages contracts for its bookings. For the work you take directly, GigTag Pro gives you invoices in your own design that the client pays online. Pro also adds song requests from your list during the set, and lets you run more than one act from one account, which suits a band that also goes out as a duo.
A night with GigTag
A seven-piece on a city bar's band night
Friday, a city-centre bar, and your seven-piece is wedged onto a stage built for four. This is one of your own gigs, the kind you play to keep the band tight between weddings. The tag hangs from the centre vocal stand. By the second number the floor is full, and people at the edge are scanning it between songs. The page opens in their browser. Some follow your socials. Some look at your next gig, a fortnight away, and add it to their calendars.
You have opened requests on Pro, so the live queue in the GigTag app is filling with songs from your list and a few wild cards. The bandleader picks from it between numbers. Near midnight, someone who runs a company social club uses the booking enquiry form on your page to ask about a summer party. You read it the next day, reply yourselves, and once the date is agreed you send an invoice in the band's own design, which is paid online.
About Entertainment Nation
What is Entertainment Nation?
Entertainment Nation is a UK live music agency with bands and other acts for hire for weddings, parties and corporate events. Its site says it was founded by professional musicians. The roster runs across wedding bands, soul and Motown, jazz and swing, acoustic acts, DJs, string quartets and more. Acts apply to join, and its site says every application is looked at by its team and only some are taken on.
A client filters acts by type, location and date, reads profiles with photos and videos, then enquires by phone, live chat or email. Its site says advisers guide the client through the booking and the agency looks after the contract, with emergency support at any hour. Acts applying are asked for professional promo video and photos, professional equipment, and PAT and public liability certificates.
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Website
- entertainment-nation.co.uk
How Entertainment Nation works
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Filter the roster. A client picks an act type, an event location and a date on Entertainment Nation's site and sees the bands and acts from its roster that match.
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Read the profiles. Each act has a profile with photos, videos and a biography, so the client can watch the band and build a picture before making contact.
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Enquire with the agency. The client gets in touch by phone, live chat or email. Its site says expert advisers then guide them through choosing and booking the act.
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Agency runs the booking. The agency manages the contract and the coordination with the act. Its site also describes emergency support that is available at any hour of the day.
Who Entertainment Nation is for
Wedding couples. Couples looking for a wedding band, a DJ, a string quartet or acoustic music for the day. Wedding bands are among the act types on its site, which covers the UK regions and also mentions Europe and worldwide events.
Corporate and party bookers. People arranging a company event or a big private party who want a band and someone to manage the process. Advisers, contracts and coordination with the performers are all handled by the agency, according to its site.
Bands seeking representation. Established acts with professional video, photos and equipment that want an agency to market them. Its sign-up page says a dedicated team works on an act's promotional material and presents the act to the agency's clients.
The verdict
GigTag or Entertainment Nation: which should you choose?
The bottom line
For a band that plays live in public, we recommend GigTag on the stand. The single strongest reason: the people on your dance floor can send you a booking enquiry before they go home, directly, with no commission taken by GigTag. Entertainment Nation is still the right choice if you want an agency to represent the band to wedding and corporate clients and manage those bookings, and a represented band can use GigTag for its own gigs as well.
A represented band can still use GigTag for its own public gigs: the pub nights, the festival slots, the residency. That is where the tag does its work. For events that come through Entertainment Nation, go by your agreement with the agency on how new enquiries are handled. The two do different jobs and need not get in each other's way.
- Step 1
Apply or stay represented
If agency work is what you want, follow Entertainment Nation's sign-up page and let its team handle the clients it brings to the band for weddings and events.
- Step 2
Give your own gigs a tag
Set the band up on GigTag, add your public dates as gigs or residencies, and hang the tag on the centre mic stand each time.
- Step 3
Invoice what you book directly
When an enquiry from your own audience turns into a booking, send the invoice from GigTag on Pro. Agency bookings carry on under the agency's own process.
Choose GigTag if
You also play public gigs and want that audience to follow you, see your dates and enquire directly from the tag on your stand.
Start freeEntertainment Nation may still suit you if
You are a function band with professional promo and want a UK agency to represent you to wedding and corporate clients.
GigTag FreeYour page, your tag design, every gig and residency, a booking form. One act.
GigTag ProSong requests, tips, invoices, more than one act. AED 30, £11.99 or $15.99 a month.
GigTag Printed tagFrom AED 100 in the UAE, £24.99 in the UK or €28.99 in the EU, delivered free, with a large size for more; $32.99 elsewhere, plus postage from the UK. Or print your own, anywhere, for free.
Questions
Entertainment Nation and GigTag: what people ask
Something else? Ask us. A person reads every message.
Is GigTag better than Entertainment Nation for a function band?
They do different jobs, so it depends on the gig. For public gigs you run yourselves, GigTag is the tool built for them: one scan gives the crowd your booking enquiry form, next date and links, and song requests on Pro. For agency representation to wedding and corporate clients, that is Entertainment Nation's field. A function band may well want both.
What can GigTag do for a band that Entertainment Nation is not built for?
It gives your own audiences a way to act. From one permanent QR code they can send a booking enquiry straight to the band, add your next gig to their calendar, follow your socials and music, and request songs on Pro. GigTag takes no commission on bookings, and the free plan covers one act.
What does Entertainment Nation do?
Entertainment Nation is a UK live music agency. Clients use its site to find bands and other acts for weddings, parties and corporate events, and its advisers guide them through the booking. Its site says the agency handles contracts and offers emergency support at any hour. Acts apply to join and are vetted by its team.
What does Entertainment Nation ask of acts that apply?
Its act sign-up page asks for a professional promotional video and photos, professional PA and equipment for bands and musicians, and current PAT testing and public liability insurance certificates. It says its team vets every application. Check that page for the current requirements. GigTag has no application: you set up your own page.
Is GigTag a booking agency like Entertainment Nation?
No. GigTag does not represent acts, find clients or manage contracts. It is a permanent QR code on a tag for the mic stand, with a page behind it. People at your gig scan it to send a booking enquiry, see your next gig and residencies, and follow your links. On Pro they can request songs.
Does GigTag suit a full function band of the kind on Entertainment Nation?
Yes. GigTag is for solo acts, duos and bands. Band members can join a band, and on Pro one account can hold more than one act, so a seven-piece and its acoustic trio can each have a page. The free plan covers one act with its tag design, print file, page, gigs and booking enquiry form.
Can a large band use one QR code for everything?
Yes. One GigTag code covers the whole act: next gig, weekly residencies, socials, website, music links and the booking enquiry form, plus song requests on Pro. It never changes, so a big band prints it once. That sits apart from an agency profile with Entertainment Nation, which is there for clients browsing its roster.
How does a client book through Entertainment Nation?
Its site says a client filters acts by type, location and date, looks at profiles with photos and videos, then enquires by phone, live chat or email. Advisers guide the booking and the agency manages the contract. A GigTag booking starts differently, with someone at your gig scanning the tag and sending an enquiry.
Can the audience request songs from a function band?
With GigTag Pro they can. They scan the tag and choose from your song list, or ask for anything if you open requests, and the band sees a live queue during the set. It is a tool for the public gigs you run yourselves, separate from the events Entertainment Nation arranges for its acts.
Can we send invoices for gigs we book ourselves?
Yes, on GigTag Pro. You create invoices in your own design and the client pays online. Pro is £11.99 a month in the UK, or £119.99 a year. It is meant for bookings that come to you directly, for example through your tag, while bookings made through Entertainment Nation follow the agency's process.
Looking for Entertainment Nation itself?
This page is GigTag's. Entertainment Nation's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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Entertainment Nation is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about Entertainment Nation here comes from its own public website, checked on 7 October 2026. Products change: if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
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