A DJ spinning playing live at a day time gig
A group of people enjoying a live music show. The audience raises their hands and takes photos of the performance.
ATET venue with large disco ball hanging from the ceiling. Crowds gather around, dance, sing, drink and enjoy the vibe of the live entertainment.
The multi talented musician, George
53,000 Surreal events a year and counting

The best way to manage your live entertainment

Simplify every aspect of your live entertainment workflow. Seamlessly manage bookings, marketing, operations, and finance,  all in a single, powerful platform.

Some of our great venues

A collaborative entertainment system for the modern hospitality operator

Whether you have 1 venue or 3000, use Surreal to take entertainment seriously.
Keep your staff, marketing, finance and operations on the same page.

Booking

Save time with the fastest entertainment booking system globally

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Use one system for all your entertainment suppliers - quiz hosts, live music, DJs, comedians, photographers and much more.

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Save 338 hours a year per venue manager by automating admin.

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Use powerful new features for artist availability, communication, booking, invoicing and marketing.

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Book faster than your competition so you can focus on curation.

Promotion

Drive growth by promoting live entertainment to as many customers as possible.

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Market every single one of your events to its full potential. Never miss an opportunity.

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Automatically promote to customers on your website and in-venue with live event guides.

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Auto-generate SEO optimised event pages to rank on Google.

Payments

Save finance a ridiculous amount of time with aggregation and accuracy.

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Aggregate 10s or even 1000s of entertainment invoices into 1.

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Never set up an entertainer as a new supplier again.

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Don’t wait for entertainer invoices, raise aggregated invoices on your own terms.

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Surreal automatically creates invoices for entertainers ready for you to pay.

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Invoices are accurate and always on time. No more unbalancing and rebalancing P&Ls

Data

Use your entertainment data to grow revenue and understand ROI

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Bring your entertainment data from spreadsheets, WhatsApp chats and agencies into one centralised system.

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Use this data to import into CRMs to automate marketing.

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Export your entertainment data to integrate with your BI systems.

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Bring your entertainment into the digital age and into your tech stack.

Surreal has been trusted for over five years to book live entertainment across the globe.

53,000+
Gigs booked every year
£15.5M+
Paid to entertainers yearly
338 Hours
Ave. time saved per GM, per year.*
500%
Increase in entertainment promoted
across all channels
Statistics drawn from a study including more than
230 venues over a one-year period.

Features

Transform your venue or agency operations with Surreal.

Elevate your venue and agency operations with Surreal, the ultimate venue and event management software.

Create and schedule high-quality campaigns for single events, or multiple venue locations, all in one place.

Enhance your event and venue operations with the Surreal event entry system.

One system for bookings, financials, promotions, communications, and record-keeping? Game-changing.

Reduce your admin and maximise productivity with Surreal’s event staff management software.

Find an Entertainer for any event with Surreal, the world’s best matchmaker for venues and artists.

Elevate your venue or agency operations with Surreal, the world’s leading gig management software.

What our customers are saying

"We are really excited to be partnering with Surreal to bring all of our entertainment scheduling and invoicing into one place.

The flexibility and simplicity of Surreal adds another level to our business allowing our team greater visibility of bookings and a streamlining of our payment processes ensuring more robust programming and saving valuable time for both the events teams and the artists. "

Ben McLauglin

COO of Boxpark

"If we can describe Surreal in a few shorts words it would be: a time-saving godsend. The Surreal team has streamlined the whole booking and invoicing process to a fine art.

We cannot recommend Surreal highly enough. It will positively change the way you approach your bookings."

Walter Juan

Music Director, ATET

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“The platform just makes it so easy to track all your payments as an artist. Brilliant platform - it would be great if all venues were on it; would make it so much easier for everyone, seriously."

Caroline Hesford

DJ, London

“Surreal is a brilliant app for musicians. It is easy to sign up and easy to use. All my experiences with Surreal have been professional and enjoyable. I urge any and every musician to sign up to Surreal and see if it is right for you. I’m sure it will be!”

James Franklin

Solo, Melbourne

Transform your venue's

live entertainment today

“I genuinely love the product. It saves me so much time and it is so simple to use.” Dean. GM, North London Tavern