Book a Friday

In short

• Every Friday at 20:00 a band plays at CousCous Bar&Bistro. Admission is free, and the collection belongs to you.
• The only money we ask for: CHF 40 per concert from the collection as a contribution to the SUISA fee.
• CousCous provides the stage, the house PA, food and drinks for the band, the concert menu for the guests and the promotion listed below.
• You deliver texts, pictures and the SUISA music list, promote your concert, do your own announcements and organise the collection.
• By booking you accept the house rules in section 5.

1. Date and booking

• Concerts take place on Fridays at 20:00, except on public holidays and during school holidays. One band plays per Friday.
• Bookings are made exclusively through this application. A booking is only possible with complete details, texts and pictures.
• Dates can be booked if they are at least 14 days in the future. The earlier you book, the more promotion is possible: the printed concert programme and the Uster Agenda have their own deadlines.
• The date is yours as soon as you have confirmed the booking via the link in our e-mail. Without confirmation within 48 hours, the date becomes free again.
• CousCous may decline a confirmed booking within 3 days if the performance does not fit the programme. In that case you will receive an e-mail.

2. What CousCous offers

• Stage and house PA: PA system, mono amplifier and microphones. The equipment can be viewed in advance by arrangement.
• Food and drinks for everyone performing are free on the concert evening. Companions pay as usual.
• A special concert menu for the guests: dinner from 17:30 to 20:00.
• Promotion, limited to: a listing in the Uster Agenda, publication on couscous-bistro.ch and the printed concert programme in the bistro.
• A CousCous flyer for your concert with all details, the reservation option and the menu of the evening. You receive it digitally to share.
• Registration of the concert with SUISA and the settlement with SUISA.

CousCous provides no services beyond these.

3. What you deliver and take care of

• Texts and pictures for the publications, already when booking. CousCous uses only the material you deliver and publishes it unchanged. Please check it carefully. Changes are possible until 10 days before the concert.
• The SUISA music list with all titles played (title, composer, arranger, duration) no later than 5 days before the concert via your personal link, without us having to ask. If the list is missing after the deadline, CousCous may cancel the concert. If you played something else on the night, you correct the list within 3 days.
• Your own promotion: we strongly recommend promoting the concert among your friends, family and fans. You are primarily responsible for a well-attended concert.
• Instruments, additional equipment, transport, setting up and taking down, and operating the PA.
• The announcements: you welcome the audience, announce the break and the collection and say goodbye yourselves. CousCous provides no host.

4. Collection and SUISA contribution

• Admission is free. There is no fee and no reimbursement of expenses.
• The collection belongs to the band. You organise it entirely yourselves: announcement, container, collecting. We recommend also having QR codes ready (for example TWINT). You may ask our service staff to pass the hat around. Responsibility for the collection stays with you.
• SUISA contribution: SUISA charges CousCous copyright fees for every concert. You contribute a flat CHF 40 from the collection. You hand the amount to the CousCous team on the concert evening, in cash or by TWINT. CousCous asks for nothing more. CousCous may waive the contribution, for example after a poorly attended evening.
• SUISA requires us to state the income. You therefore report the total of the collection (cash and digital) via your personal link no later than 3 days after the concert.
• You may sell your own recordings and merchandise at a table of your own. The proceeds belong 100 percent to you. You run the sale yourselves.

5. House rules

• Tables: reservations are meant for guests who dine with us. Guests who reserve for dinner keep their table for the concert. Guests who only want to reserve for the concert may do so. When space gets tight, dinner guests have priority and we assign another place if there is no other option. Please tell your fans.
• Schedule: set-up from 15:00. The sound check is finished by 18:30 so that the guests can dine in peace. No more rehearsing after that.
• Concert: start at 20:00, two sets of 30 to 50 minutes each with a 15-minute break in between. The concert ends at 22:00 at the latest, encores included.
• Volume: suited to the room and no more than 93 dB(A) averaged over one hour. CousCous is a bistro, not a club. If our team asks you to play more quietly, you do so at once.
• Take down directly after the concert, by 23:00 at the latest. You leave the stage as you found it.
• Photos and videos: on the concert evening CousCous may take photos and short videos of your performance and use them on its own channels (website, social media, printed concert programme).
• House authority: the instructions of the CousCous team apply. In case of serious breaches CousCous may stop the concert.

6. Cancellations

• If you have to cancel, do so as early as possible via your personal link, no later than 7 days before the concert. Later only for an important reason, for example illness or an accident.
• Anyone who cancels at short notice without an important reason or does not show up may be excluded from further bookings.
• CousCous may cancel a concert if the SUISA music list is missing, details are incorrect or there is an important operational reason. There is no entitlement to compensation.

7. Rights to texts and pictures

• You confirm that you hold the rights to the texts and pictures you deliver and that the people shown as well as the photographers agree.
• You allow CousCous to use texts and pictures to promote your concert: Uster Agenda, website, printed concert programme, flyer and CousCous social media channels.
• If third parties raise claims because of the material you delivered, you take responsibility for them.

8. Liability

• You are responsible for your own instruments and equipment. They are not insured through CousCous.
• You are liable for any damage you cause to the house PA or the premises.
• You perform independently. No employment relationship with CousCous arises.

9. Contact

CousCous Bar&Bistro GmbH, Stationsstrasse 54, 8606 Nänikon. info@couscous-bistro.ch, 076 721 75 75.

The German version of these terms prevails.