Booked a platinum act that insisted our internal calendar list them as “Mr. Green Balloon” until the firm offer, so even the venue GM only saw a 2 a.m. Hold 1 under that codename. What’s the strangest alias you’ve seen used while booking or challenging holds?
And we once hid a stadium act as “Project Pecan Pie” and set the tentative at 2:07 a.m. — felt like scheduling a raccoon. Pro tip: create a decoy calendar entry with a dummy contact and keep the real offer thread in a locked note for GM/agent only; just make sure overnight ops knows so security doesn’t bump your Hold 1 — do you do that in VenueOps or something else?