This Was The Scene Podcast

Fata Booking is a North America-based, boutique booking agency and management firm. Founded in 1996 by Eva Alexiou-Reo, FATA has worked with and exponentially grown the careers of credible artists such as Jimmy Eat World, ​Hot Water Music, Flogging Molly, Elliott, ​Mae, ​Rusted Root, ​MC Lars,​ The Blood Brothers, Pretty Girls Make Graves​ and many more.​  Eva’s name always came up back in the day and I wanted to get her perspective of what it was like to grow a booking agency. With the help of Kim Heiner, I got Eva on the skype and this is what we chat about: The Wilkes-Barre scene Starting Fata Booking Advice from Kevin Lyman Should she write a book How are bands making money? how has she gotten bands Pretty girls make graves Venues taking a cut of merch And a ton more Lastly I started doing whiteboard animations so if your marketing department has said recently “Hey, we need a whiteboard animation” then email me at mike@drive80.com