Free · no login · nothing uploaded
DJ press kit template.
A one-page EPK you can attach to a booking email. The hard part of a press kit is not the layout — it is writing a bio short enough to actually get used, so this one counts as you type.
Whatever you type here fills in the invoice, booking contract and tech rider. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account — it lives in this browser only.
You
Your own name, or your company's.
Leave blank if bookings come to you.
Where they hear you
The top line
Promoters filter on this before they read anything.
Two or three words, not a paragraph.
0 characters — an Instagram bio caps at 150, so a tagline that fits there works everywhere.
Photo
Landscape works best on the one-sheet. It is read in this browser and stored here — it is never uploaded anywhere.
Bios
Where you have played
Six at most, and the six that mean something to the person reading it. A long list reads as padding.
Releases
The ones you would want a promoter to hear first.
Mixes and links
A press kit that does not link to a mix is asking to be taken on trust.
A quote, if you have one
Still missing
In the order a promoter notices them, not the order they are easy to fix.
- An artist name. Everything else is captioning without it.
- A short bio. It is the one a promoter will actually paste, so it is the one to write first.
- A photo. A press kit with no image gets a stock silhouette on the flyer, or gets skipped.
- Somewhere to hear you. A press kit that does not link to a mix is asking to be taken on trust.
- Where you are based. Promoters filter by it before they read anything else.
- What you play. Two or three words, not a paragraph.
Press kit
Fill in the form to build the one-sheet
This press kit was produced from a free template. All content is supplied by the artist named on it.
The actual problem
Nobody writes the short one.
A promoter asks for “a short bio and a photo”. What arrives is nine hundred words in the third person about a lifelong passion for music, discovered at a formative age.
It does not go in the listing, because nothing that long goes in a listing. So somebody at the venue writes two sentences about you instead — and those two sentences are the ones the public reads, on the flyer, in the event description, and in the post that sells the tickets. The bio you spent an afternoon on is not in play at all.
Which is why this tool counts rather than decorates. Three bios, three lengths, live counts against what each length is actually for, and one field that counts characters instead of words because there is exactly one place a limit is enforced by software.
| Length | Aim for | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Short | 40–75 words | The one a promoter pastes into a listing or a flyer without editing it. If you write only one, write this one. |
| Medium | 120–180 words | A festival programme, an agency roster page, the body of a booking email. |
| Long | 250–400 words | Your own site and press enquiries. Nobody else will use it, so it is the last one to write. |
These bands are ours — there is no standards body for how long a DJ bio should be, and anybody quoting one to two decimal places is guessing. The one hard number on the page is the 150-character Instagram bio limit, which is enforced by Instagram.
One page
What a promoter is actually deciding
They have a slot, a budget and probably four names. They are looking for three things in about thirty seconds: does this person play the kind of thing our room does, are they near enough that the travel works, and is there something I can listen to right now.
Everything else on a press kit is supporting evidence for a decision that has usually already been made by then. Which is why the missing-items list here is ordered by what costs you the booking rather than by what is quickest to fill in: a missing short bio outranks a missing discography, and a press kit with no link to a mix is asking to be taken on trust by somebody with three other options.
If you are stuck on the writing itself, the bio generator gives you a draft to cut down, which is a much easier job than starting from an empty box.
Where it lives
Nothing here is uploaded.
There is no account, no server and no upload endpoint. Your details, your links and your photo are held in your own browser, and the PDF is produced by the browser’s own print function — which is also why the text in it stays selectable, so a promoter can copy your booking email straight out of the file.
The trade is the obvious one: clear your browser data and it is gone. Print the PDF once you’re happy with it and keep that, the same as you would with the contract and the rider.
Frequently asked
Common questions
What is a DJ press kit?+
One page a promoter can read in thirty seconds and act on: who you are, what you play, where you are based, where they can hear you, and how to book you. It is sometimes called an EPK. Everything beyond one page is for your own website — a promoter deciding between you and four other people is not reading four pages about any of you.
What should a DJ press kit include?+
A name, a photo, a short bio, where you are based, what you play, somewhere to hear a mix, and a booking email. That is the whole essential list. After that, a handful of notable bookings, a few releases and one quote if you have a good one. The tool tells you what is missing in the order a promoter notices it, which is not the order the items are easy to fill in.
How long should a DJ bio be?+
Three different lengths, because three different people ask for three different things. Around 40 to 75 words is the one a promoter pastes into a listing without editing it, and it is the one to write first because it is the only one guaranteed to be used. Roughly 120 to 180 covers a festival programme or an agency roster. Anything longer is for your own site. If you write one, write the short one — otherwise somebody at the venue writes two sentences about you instead, and those are the ones the public reads.
Why does my bio need to fit a character limit?+
Because one place enforces it in software rather than in taste: an Instagram bio caps at 150 characters, counting spaces and emoji. A tagline that fits there works everywhere else too, which is why the tagline field here counts characters while the bios count words. The counter uses graphemes, so an emoji counts as one character the way a platform counts it rather than as two.
Should a DJ bio be in first or third person?+
Third person, for anything a promoter or a listing will reproduce — that is the register those things are written in, and a first-person bio has to be rewritten before it can be used, which means it might not be. Keep the first-person version for your own site and your socials, where it reads better than the alternative.
Where does my photo go?+
Nowhere. It is read in your own browser, held there with the rest of your details, and drawn straight into the page you print. There is no upload and no account. The trade is that clearing your browser data clears it too. Landscape works best on a one-sheet, and keep it under 2 MB — it is being stored in the browser, which does not have much room.
Do I need a hosted EPK with its own link?+
Not to get booked. A one-page PDF attached to an email is what most promoters actually want, because it survives being forwarded and does not need anyone to click anything. A hosted page is useful once you are sending enough of them to care about who opened it. Start with the PDF.
Can I use this with the contract and rider?+
They are built as one set. Your name, contact details and links are stored once in your browser and read by the press kit, the booking contract, the technical rider and the invoice. Fill in one and the other three are most of the way there.
Explore
DJ bio generator · DJ booking contract template · DJ tech rider template · DJ invoice template · What an EPK is · Promoter · Residency
Build a set from tracks that fit
DJ terms on this page: EPK · Promoter · Residency · Headliner · Warm-up · Full glossary