Booking sites and agencies
Listed on The Bash? What GigTag does at the gig itself
When the set is going well, you need a way for the room to act on it: ask about a date, save next Thursday, follow the band. GigTag puts that on your mic stand as one permanent QR code that opens in a phone's browser. You may have been looking at The Bash for leads. This is what covers the gigs you are already playing.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
What GigTag adds that The Bash is not built for
The Bash matches event planners with vendors and collects quote requests. GigTag works at the gig itself, in front of the people listening. One scan gives your audience your next date, your links, a booking form and, on Pro, song requests, and enquiries come to you with no commission taken by GigTag.
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Your residency becomes a booking channel
Play the same room every week and you meet a lot of people with events coming up. GigTag lets any of them send a booking enquiry from your page in a few taps, with no commission taken by GigTag. The Bash is built for planners who search by type and location.
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Regulars can save your next date
Your page shows your next gig and weekly residencies, and a fan adds them to their calendar on the spot. That is how a good night can turn into a familiar face next week. A marketplace listing is designed around one-off events, so this sits naturally beside it.
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Song requests in a live queue
On Pro, people request songs from your list, or anything if you open requests, and you see them in a live queue on your phone during the set. It makes the audience part of the night. The Bash does its work earlier, when the event is being planned.
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A camera scan, nothing more
Nobody has to install an app or create an account. They point a phone camera at the tag and your page opens in the browser. That suits a diner between courses or someone at the bar, and it works wherever in the US you play.
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One account for every act
The free plan covers one act. On Pro, one account holds more than one, so your trio, your duo and your solo set each have their own page, and band members can join a band. Pro also adds invoices in your own design that clients pay online.
In short
The Bash and GigTag, in four lines
- The Bash is a US marketplace that matches event planners with entertainers and other vendors and lets them request quotes.
- GigTag works at the gig: one scan gives the room your next date, your links and a booking enquiry form.
- Enquiries come straight to you, GigTag takes no commission, and the audience needs no app or account.
- Our recommendation: use GigTag at every gig you play, and keep The Bash for planners who are searching.
Side by side
GigTag vs The Bash, topic by topic
How you are found
Keep The Bash for planners searching online
People find you by being at the gig. They scan the tag on the mic stand with a phone camera and your page opens.
The BashA planner tells the site what kind of entertainer they want and where the event is, and is matched with vendors who fit that type and location.
Reviews and proof
They hear you live before they ask
The proof is the set they are listening to. Your page then gives them your socials, website and music links to follow up.
The BashVendor profiles carry reviews and ratings from past bookings, and its site describes those reviews as verified, so planners can compare vendors before asking for quotes.
Getting a quote
Enquiries direct to you, no commission by GigTag
A fan sends a booking enquiry from your page. You see it on the website or in the GigTag app and take it from there.
The BashPlanners request price quotes from the vendors they have been matched with, then compare them and choose who to book for their event.
Planning help
Keep The Bash for planning tools
GigTag stays with the performance: your next gig, weekly residencies that people add to a calendar, and on Pro song requests in a live queue.
The BashIts site offers planners articles, themes and inspiration, with a budget tool and checklists, so it covers more of the event than the entertainment alone.
Beyond music
Made only for live acts and their audiences
GigTag is only for live acts, whether solo, duo or band. On Pro one account can hold more than one act.
The BashThe categories include photographers, variety acts, event staffing and party rentals as well as bands and DJs, so musicians are one group among many vendors.
The quick view
| GigTag | The Bash | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 The Bash, not that it is missing: see what The Bash offers above, or ask on its site.
The Bash or GigTag
Where GigTag is different from The Bash
A quote request, or a scan mid-set
On The Bash a planner searches by type and place and asks for quotes. With GigTag the enquiry starts in the room. Your code is on a small tag on the mic stand. Someone enjoying the set scans it with their phone camera, your page opens in the browser, and the booking enquiry form is right there. No app, no account. They have heard you play before they ask.
Your regular night becomes the advert
The Bash is built around events: a wedding, a birthday, a company party. GigTag also looks after the gigs you play every week. Your page shows your next gig and your weekly residencies, and a fan can add them to their calendar. People who come back, and bring friends, are the same people who may later need a band for a birthday or an office party.
Song requests and invoices on Pro
GigTag is made for live acts, so it goes into the set itself. On Pro, the audience can request songs from your list, or anything at all if you open requests, and you work through them in a live queue on your phone. When an enquiry turns into a booking, Pro lets you send an invoice in your own design that the client pays online.
A night with GigTag
Thursday dinner service for a jazz trio
You play the same restaurant every Thursday, tucked beside the bar with a bass, a guitar and a small kit. The tag hangs on the vocal mic stand where the nearest tables can see it. Between courses a diner scans it and your page opens in their browser. They see that Thursday is a weekly residency and add it to their calendar. Their friend follows your music links to listen later. Neither of them has interrupted the set, and you have not stopped playing to hand anything out.
Near the end of the night a couple celebrating an anniversary open the booking enquiry form on your page and ask about a rehearsal dinner. If you are on Pro, someone else has asked for a standard from your song list, and it is sitting in the live queue on your phone. After the last tune you read the enquiry in the GigTag app. Later in the week you reply, agree the details and send an invoice in your own design, which they pay online. Next Thursday the same tag is back on the stand.
About The Bash
What is The Bash?
The Bash is a US marketplace that connects people planning events with entertainers and other event vendors. Its site covers weddings, birthdays, corporate events and parties of most kinds, and the categories run well beyond music: photographers, variety acts, event staff and party rentals sit alongside bands and DJs. For a musician it is a place to list your service where planners are already searching by what they need and where the event is.
A planner tells The Bash what kind of entertainer they want and where the event is, then gets matched with vendors and asks for price quotes. Its site also offers planning help: articles, themes, a budget tool and checklists. Vendor profiles carry reviews and ratings from past bookings, which its site describes as verified. See its site for prices and for how listing your service works.
- Where
- United States
- Website
- thebash.com
How The Bash works
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Say what you need. A planner tells The Bash what kind of entertainer or vendor they are looking for and where the event is being held, whether that is a wedding, a birthday or a company party.
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Get matched with vendors. The site matches the planner with vendors that fit. Each has a profile, and its site says the reviews and ratings shown on those profiles are verified.
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Request quotes. The planner asks the vendors they like for price quotes, compares what comes back and decides who to book for the date they have in mind.
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Plan the rest. Alongside the booking, its site offers planning help, including articles, party themes, a budget tool and checklists, and it describes protection for events arranged through it.
Who The Bash is for
Wedding planning. Couples and wedding planners looking for ceremony music, a reception band or a DJ. Weddings are among the occasions its site covers, and a planner can look for several kinds of vendor in the same place as the music.
Birthdays and family parties. People organising a birthday, a baby shower or a seasonal party who want entertainment without knowing where to begin. Its site covers celebrations of most sizes, and its articles and themes are written for this kind of host.
Company events. Someone arranging a corporate event who needs entertainment, staff or rentals. The categories on its site go beyond music to photographers, variety acts, event staffing and party rentals, so one organiser can cover several needs at once.
The verdict
GigTag or The Bash: which should you choose?
The bottom line
For any act that plays live, GigTag belongs on the mic stand. Its strongest argument is the weekly gig: every regular and every first-time visitor can save your next date, follow you and send a booking enquiry from one scan, and GigTag takes no commission. The Bash remains the place to be listed if you want event planners across the US to find you by type and location, and the two work comfortably together.
They sit side by side. Keep The Bash for planners who are searching online and have never seen you. Put a GigTag on the stand for everyone who has. GigTag does not find clients, so it will not replace a marketplace. What it does is make sure a good night in front of a crowd leaves you with enquiries, not just applause.
- Step 1
List where planners search
Keep your service listed on The Bash so planners looking by entertainer type and location can find you and ask for a quote for their event.
- Step 2
Add the tag to your gigs
Create your GigTag page on the free plan, enter your gigs and weekly residencies, and hang the printed tag on your mic stand wherever you play in public.
- Step 3
Answer both in one routine
Check marketplace requests and GigTag enquiries together after each gig. When a GigTag enquiry becomes a booking, Pro lets you send an invoice the client pays online.
Choose GigTag if
You play regular gigs and want the people in the room to send enquiries, follow you and come back next week, all from one code on your stand.
Start freeThe Bash may still suit you if
You are in the US and want to be listed where event planners search by entertainer type and location.
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.
Why would a musician on The Bash also need GigTag?
A listing on The Bash is there for planners who are searching. GigTag is there for the people in front of you. The audience scans the tag on your mic stand and can send a booking enquiry, add your next gig to their calendar or follow your links, without an app or an account. It covers the audience you already have.
Is GigTag better than The Bash for a band with a weekly residency?
For the residency itself, yes, because that is what GigTag is built for. Your page shows the residency for people to add to their calendar, takes song requests on Pro and carries a booking enquiry form, all from one permanent code. The Bash is built for a different job, matching planners with vendors, so keep it if you want that work too.
What is The Bash?
The Bash is a US marketplace where people planning weddings, parties and corporate events find entertainers and other vendors. Planners say what they need and where, get matched with vendors and request quotes. Musicians and DJs can list their service there. Its site also publishes planning articles and tools. See its site for prices.
Does GigTag send me leads the way The Bash does?
No. GigTag is not a marketplace or an agency and does not find clients for you. It works with the audience you already have: people at your gig scan the code on your stand and can send a booking enquiry from your page. If you need strangers to find you online, that is the job of a marketplace such as The Bash.
Can a duo or band use GigTag alongside a listing on The Bash?
Yes. GigTag is for solo acts, duos and bands. The free plan covers one act with its tag design and print file, page, links, every gig and residency, and the booking enquiry form. Pro adds more than one act on one account, and band members can join a band. None of that affects a listing you hold on The Bash.
Does GigTag work in the US, where The Bash operates?
The page, links, gigs and residencies, booking enquiries, song requests and invoices work in every country, the US included. Pro is $15.99 a month there, and you can print your own tag for free. Printed tags ship to the UAE and the UK only for now. Tips work in the US too, by card or Apple Pay into your own Stripe account, with 0% taken by GigTag.
Can fans request songs through a QR code?
With GigTag on Pro, yes. People scan the tag and request a song from your list, or anything at all if you open requests, and you see each one in a live queue during the set. It is a feature for the gig itself, which is a different job from the quotes and listings The Bash deals with.
How much does GigTag cost in the US?
The free plan covers one act with its tag design and print file, page, links, gigs, residencies and booking enquiry form. Pro is $15.99 a month or $159.99 a year and adds song requests, invoices and more than one act. Print your own tag for free; printed tags ship to the UAE and the UK only for now. For The Bash, see its site for prices.
What kinds of events is The Bash used for?
Its site covers weddings, birthday parties, corporate events, baby showers, seasonal parties and more, and planners can look for many kinds of vendor there besides musicians. GigTag is not organised around event types at all. It works at whatever gig you are playing, and the enquiries it brings can be for any occasion.
Does a GigTag code keep working after the gig?
Yes. The code is permanent. Someone who opened your page during the set can go back to it afterwards to check your next gig, follow your links or send a booking enquiry. That makes it a useful partner to a listing on The Bash: people who saw you live have their own way back to you.
Looking for The Bash itself?
This page is GigTag's. The Bash's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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The Bash is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about The Bash 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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