Thank
you for using Sparkle Agency - home of the World's top music
professionals and entertainment performers. Here you can book
international chart acts, global clublands favourite DJ's and
live PA's, TV, cabaret and circus performers as well as skilled
mainstream club DJ/hosts. View genre/style rosters and
individual artist profiles by selecting from the text links in
the box below
We
are very pleased to tell you that as at December 2007 we clocked
up an amazing 10-year 100% unbroken artist appearance record
worldwide - an extraordinary accomplishment in the booking industry,
and one that speaks volumes for the dedication and determination
of our artists and booking agents.
Booking
with us couldn't be simpler - just fill in on online enquiry
form HERE,or from the HOW TO BOOK link alongside each
artist profile and on each web page. Alternatively you can email
us at BOOKINGS@SPARKLEAGENCY.COM.
Please
provide us with as much information as possible to help us provide
you with a fast response on artists availability and cost. We
are often asked for a price list, however the cost of a booking
will depend on many factors - ranging from the size of the venue
to location/travel and seasonal demand so artists/their management
will quote individually for each event.
Sparkle
Agency don't charge bookers an agency fee, nor in most cases
UK VAT (sales tax) - saving a whopping 27.5% or more over many
rival agencies. We add new name artists regularly, but
if you want to book a specific artist not on our books we can
usually provide you with a contact for their booking agent.
This service is
provided to our current and future customers free of charge.
Please read important
booking infoHERE.
Headed up by founder
and Director Spike Hull, Sparkle Agency is a registered, independant
and long established music business, our small friendly team
has over 50 years combined DJ, promotion and agent experience
between them, plus sound commercial skills and an in depth knowledge
of DJ and music culture and the industry generally.
Sparkle Agency was established
in the mid 90's. We were the World's very first web-based professional
DJ agency - set up in the days before most people even knew
what the Internet was. Although it took a couple of years
for the web to be used widely our vision proved extremely successful,
demonstrating to the dance music community and booking industry....
..what
could be achieved in the new media. Many years on we are
now firmly established as one of UK's leading international bookers
with particular expertise in the dance music market, however
we continue to explore new ideas and we thrive on being on the
bleeding edge of the booking industry. We pride ourselves on
our ethical booking policy and reliability record, and we value
and encourage long-term booking relationships and many of our
customers return to book time and again.
We also offer
a range of MUSIC
INDUSTRY SERVICES to help performers, DJs, musicians, bands, performers,
venues, promoters and the music industry generally. Lets
not forget the army of promoters and event organisers out there
- we know it's not just music entertainment you need so we have
drawn together a range of EVENT RESOURCES that we hope you find
useful, including our legendary DESIGN STUDIO which has been creating eye-candy flyers, posters, artist profiles and
CD art for over 10 years and is used extensively by leisure, fashion
and small businesses as well as the music industry.
Leading
the way with new ideas has been a key factor in building our
reputation and business. In 2000 we opened RISIN' the first stepping stone
roster system, to help experienced DJs get a foothold onto a
professional agency. In 2004 we launched our exclusive one-to-one PRO
INDUSTRY COACHING DAYS - to give DJ's all the promotional tools, information
and tricks of the trade needed to generate worldwide bookings,
make the right career moves and maximise business income.
2005
saw some more exciting developments - taking on the booking operation
for the all-female DJ and tour specialists Flipside Management
a great company with whom we have worked closely for many years,
plus a ground-breaking move as Sparkle became the World's very
first professional DJ agency to offer artist bookings on eBay. Also making their debut appearances
on our agency pages in 2005 wereDANCERS &
PROMO TEAMS
and COMMERCIAL
DJ/HOSTS
- to meet increasing demand from the mainstream and international
leisure and corporate market.
In
2006 we launched our DIGITAL RECORD STOREandstrategic
industry partnerships in the same year resulted in the welcome
arrival onto our roster of a dazzling array of A-list LIVE URBAN/CHART
ARTISTS
the UK and USA and the further expansion of our CABARET &
PERFORMER
rosters - magic, street theatre, cabaret, walkabout, and circus
style acts.
February
2007 brought great sadness as our multi-talented close associate
CHRISTIAN
SOLARI,
who was working with us to develop our new live band roster and
other music projects, died tragically while on holiday. It
was a very tough year while we struggled to come to terms with
the loss of our dear friend. Although this has set our
live band plans back a while, we still managed to launch our
second development the WWW.SPARKLEAGENCY.MOBI - a mini website enabled
for our customers with PDAs and Smartphones - another first for
the booking industry. The beta trial has proved very successful
and we will be rolling it out to reflect all our services in
2008.
Which
brings us right up to date. The big news at time of writing
this profile is the launch of our new website in March 2008 -
a smart new design to both freshen our online impact and make
the website work harder and smarter. We have retained lots
of our customers favourite features, but added code enhancements
to shorten page lengths, reduce the number of pages, and improve
navigation generally. The content has been extensively
re-written and we have also enhanced the effectiveness of our
keyword and search engine strategy, to keep up with changes in
the large search engines
