High Street runs the length of the suburb and most of what gets hired for an evening sits on it or just behind it. Small rooms, shopfront spaces and restaurants that clear the tables rather than purpose built function centres, which means the number of guests you can fit is smaller than you think and the act has to fit around them. Measure the space before you shortlist anybody.
The city is seven kilometres away and that is where every one of the nearest ten is based, so nobody here is local and nobody here is far. All of them carry reviews from people who booked them, which on a page where the distances are all much the same is the detail worth reading first.
Top picks are the nearby performers with the most visible reviews, then rating, then the closest; further afield the closest come first, and premium listings break remaining ties. Distances are straight-line from Armadale. Ask each act whether they travel to your venue and what that costs.
Fewer than you would hope once the guests are seated, and a drum kit alone takes a surprising amount of floor. A duo or a trio is the usual answer in rooms of this size, and a soloist with a good looper covers more ground than people expect. Send dimensions rather than describing the room and you will get a straight answer.
The Melbourne one in the inner south east, between Prahran and Malvern, and every distance on this page is measured from there. Perth has a suburb with the same name a long way from here, so if that is where your event is you are on the wrong page. Adding the state to your enquiry saves an act the same confusion.
Length of the booking and the number of players carry most of it, with a small room usually costing less because the act brings less gear. Two hours across dinner and four hours with a proper second half are very different jobs, so name the shape of the night. Where a starting figure shows on a card above, that is the act's own current number.
A four piece with a drum kit needs more floor than most small rooms around here can spare once the tables are in. Send the act the dimensions and let them tell you what fits.
Rooms on a shopping strip with flats above them usually stop at a set hour and the lease says so. Confirm the time before you book the hours.
High Street parking is tight and short stay, so a van pulling up at six is a plan rather than a certainty. Ask where they can unload and warn them if it is a walk.