You have two cities to choose from and the page only shows you one of them. Camira sits out in the south-west corridor, twenty one kilometres from the central Brisbane acts listed here and a similar sort of distance from Ipswich, which has its own page on this site with a noticeably different mix of performers. Before you enquire anywhere, work out which direction your act is coming from, because it is the single biggest thing affecting what you pay.
Springfield is your nearest neighbour with a page, barely two kilometres away, and it has the same supply problem written across it. What gets booked around here is halls, club rooms, church spaces and backyards on the newer estates. Every one of the ten performers above carries client reviews, which at least gives you something solid to compare when nobody in the list is local.
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 Camira. Ask each act whether they travel to your venue and what that costs.
Compare both, because from Camira the drive is not wildly different either way and the two pools are not alike. Brisbane gives you depth, especially in cover bands and duos, while the Ipswich list reads differently and may suit a smaller or more specific job. The only way to know which is cheaper for your date is to ask both.
This far out, comfortably, though it is the kind of distance where a travel charge is normal rather than cheeky. Where it starts to bite is a late finish on a Sunday or a weeknight, when the return drive lands well after everyone else has gone home. Ask what time they would need to be packed down by.
Not much, and the ten nearest you are all city based rather than from the corridor. The area has grown far faster than the supply of working performers in it, which is why the distances on this page look the way they do. It is not a problem, just something to price in from the start.
Send the same details to a couple of city acts and a couple from the Ipswich list, then compare. It costs nothing and the answers will not be as similar as you expect.
The run out here goes via the Centenary or the Ipswich Motorway and an act unfamiliar with the area may not realise which. Naming the nearest main road stops an underestimated drive turning into a late arrival.
Blocks on the modern estates sit tight together and sound carries between them easily. If the party is at home, a smaller line-up and an earlier finish saves you a difficult conversation.