Backline that actually arrives

Double-booked drum kits, a mixer that left with the previous act, and other equipment failures that are really record-keeping failures.

Ask a promoter what went wrong last month and the answer is usually equipment, but the cause is almost always a list held in two places.

One inventory per venue, allocated per event, with a condition note on return. It is unglamorous and it removes most of the arguments.

The venues that run this way spend their soundcheck on sound, not on finding a spare DI box.