Quiet is the word people use about this part of the northern suburbs, and they mean it as a compliment right up until they want a party. Carine is wide streets, generous lawns and a lot of open green space, with no bar strip and no function centre anywhere near, so entertainment here happens at home, at a school or on a reserve.
The ten closest are central Perth acts fourteen kilometres south of you, which is a straightforward run down the freeway and not a local booking by any reading. Stirling and Scarborough are both five kilometres away with pages of their own, and they show you the same acts from a slightly shorter distance.
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 Carine. Ask each act whether they travel to your venue and what that costs.
An act that handles a crowd moving past and talking over the top, which means a roving performer, a solo singer or a duo instead of a band running full sets at a mostly empty oval. Tell them if it is a fundraiser when you first write, since some price those differently. Nail down shade and a working outlet well ahead of the morning itself.
A few give Joondalup or Scarborough as their base, and they sit further down the full list rather than in the nearest ten. The top of this page is central Perth, fourteen kilometres away, because that is where the catalogue's acts are pinned. Read the distance on the card and treat the suburb name as a starting point only.
Earlier than most people hope, and in a suburb this quiet a single neighbour can end your night. Local noise rules set the outside limit, so find out what yours are and then work the last song backwards from it rather than hoping nobody rings. Booking the live set early in the evening and something quieter afterwards solves it neatly.
Ask for an afternoon rate rather than assuming the evening one applies. Fewer hours, an early pack-down and nobody driving home at midnight normally bring the figure down, and plenty of performers maintain a lighter rig purely for daytime work.
A fete or a presentation night runs to a timetable that somebody else owns, and the act needs a copy of it. Send the times, say where the power is, and confirm whether there is a stage or just a patch of oval.
A big open backyard gives a performer nothing to work with, so put them against the house or a fence rather than in the middle of the grass. It costs you nothing and it makes a duo sound twice the size.