Fair fees.
Real matches.
No hidden margin.
Sanpo Yoshi is a transparent artist booking agency for the Australian live music industry. Tell us about your event and we'll match you with the right artist — with an itemised fair-fee breakdown, not a black-box quote.
The Sanpo Yoshi Philosophy
Sanpo yoshi (三方よし) is a 400-year-old Japanese business philosophy from the Ōmi merchants meaning good for the seller, good for the buyer, good for society. It's the principle every booking we make is measured against.
Artists deserve fair representation, transparent opportunities and sustainable careers.
Promoters deserve clear pricing, honest communication and collaborative partnerships.
Every booking should strengthen audiences, venues, festivals and the future of Australia's live music industry.
Every quote, shown in the open.
Our sliding-scale calculator scores your event across seven weighted factors — venue capacity, expected attendance, event type, billing position, promoter inclusions, market and tour routing — and produces a fair fee range with the maths on show. Travel, accommodation, production and commission are always itemised, never buried.
Stories from an industry that needed a better model.
Sanpo Yoshi was created after seeing firsthand how opaque fees, rigid contracts and disconnection between artists and promoters hurt everyone. These four real-world cases explain why transparency matters.
Created by the people who've lived it.
Sanpo Yoshi was created by Gig Big, an Australian event management company with more than a decade of experience producing festivals, concerts and community events across regional New South Wales. We built this because we believe the best live music experiences happen when artists, promoters and agencies work as genuine partners.
"It's about creating an industry built on trust, transparency and shared success — sanpo yoshi: good for the seller, good for the buyer, good for society."
Ready to book an artist the transparent way?
It takes 2 minutes to start an enquiry. You'll see an indicative fair fee range on screen — no signup wall.