Festival and Nightclub Booking Contacts, Verified for 2026
A booked show still starts with an email. Festivals and clubs plan their lineups months ahead, and the person who picks the acts rarely puts an address on the homepage. Some festivals run an open call once a year, some book only through agents, and a club’s main inbox may be read by the bar manager. Finding the right address for one venue can take an evening.
This list does that search for you. It holds 1,840 nightclub and festival contacts with a verified email: club booking and info inboxes, festival booking, programming and submission addresses, plus the website, city and country of each. You download it as CSV and XLSX, filter it in Excel or Google Sheets, and pitch the clubs and festivals that fit your sound.
What’s in the file
Every row is one email at one club or festival. A festival can have more than one row when it publishes separate booking and press addresses. The main columns:
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Name | The club or festival |
| Booking, programming or general inbox, SMTP-checked on the mail server | |
| Type | Nightclub / venue or Festival |
| Inbox type | What the address is for. Festival emails are tagged booking, submissions, press, sponsorship, info or operations |
| Profile | The club’s Resident Advisor page or the festival’s own page |
| Website | The official site, to check lineups and past events |
| City, Country | Where the club or festival takes place, when known |
| Audience | Resident Advisor followers of the club, a quick popularity signal |
| Email verified | The date the address last passed verification |
Addresses tagged operations (tickets, volunteers, accessibility) stay in the file but are labeled, so you can filter them out in one click and pitch only booking and submission inboxes.
How we find and verify club and festival contacts
The list comes from Ninja Digger, our own data pipeline. Clubs come from Resident Advisor venue listings in the cities where electronic music gets booked most. Festivals come from public festival directories and calendars, Wikipedia lists and Resident Advisor festival listings. For each one, the pipeline opens the official website, reads the contact, booking and about pages, and keeps only the addresses the club or festival published itself.
Every email is checked on the recipient mail server before it goes into a file. Dead addresses are dropped, and each row keeps its last-verified date. Today’s file holds 1,840 contacts. Data as of Oct 21, 2026.
How to get booked at festivals and clubs
Nothing replaces a good live record, but there is an order that works:
- Get the basics ready: a short bio, two or three recent mixes or live videos, press photos and a one-page tech rider. Put them on one page you can link to.
- Start local. Clubs and smaller festivals near you book artists who bring people. A few full rooms at home are the best argument you can send.
- Check how each festival books. Many open an artist application or a showcase call months before the event, and some work only through agents. If there is an open call, use it.
- Find the booking contact. The booking or programming inbox is usually on the contact page, the press page or in the footer.
- Pitch while the lineup is being built. Summer festivals usually start booking in the autumn and winter before. Clubs plan one to three months ahead.
- Follow up once, then move on to the next club or festival on your list.
Step four by hand takes about an evening for every twenty venues. This festival booking email list is that step done at scale and kept verified.
How to write a booking email
- Name the night or the festival edition. Show you know their lineup and where you fit on it.
- Lead with proof. Where you played, how many people came, the scene that follows you.
- Send two links. One mix or live set that matches their sound, one press kit. No attachments.
- Give your dates. Say when you are free and whether you are already touring nearby.
- Keep it short. Under 150 words. Bookers read on their phones.
- Follow up once, after a week or two.
“Hi [name], I’m [artist], a [genre] DJ from [city]. You booked [similar artist] last season, and I think my sets would fit [stage or night]. I’ve played [venues], and my last night in [city] drew [number] people. Mix: [link]. Press kit: [link]. I’m free on [dates]. Thanks for considering it.”
Booking email list vs other ways to get booked
Open calls and agents both work. A contact list is for when you want to reach many bookers directly, on your own schedule.
| DemoPool list | Festival open calls | Booking agent | Your own research | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | One file, pricing in the builder above | Often free, some charge an application fee | Usually a 10–20% commission per show | Your time |
| Reach | All 1,840 contacts in the file | One festival per application | The agent’s own network | As many as you can research |
| When you can pitch | Any time | Only while the call is open | When the agent decides | Any time |
| Direct contact | Yes, you email the booker | Through the form | Through the agent | Yes |
| Next season | Reuse the file | Apply again | Ongoing | Only if you keep it updated |
Who this list is for
- DJs and live acts planning a tour or a festival season.
- Booking agents and managers looking for new rooms and stages for their roster.
- Labels and showcase organizers searching for partner venues and festivals.
- Music businesses that work with clubs and festivals: sound, lighting, ticketing, merch.
Building a full booking campaign? Pair this list with booking agent contacts and DJs from Beatport charts.
Bounce guarantee
Emails are SMTP-checked, and each row shows the date it last passed. If more than 3% of your first send hard-bounces, send us your bounce report and we replace the bounced contacts 1:1 within 30 days.