How The Barefoot Bandit Uses Setlix to Keep Their Live Shows Tight, Fun, and Organised
When you’re an 8-piece band blending dub, reggae, and a healthy dose of chaos, staying organised is half the battle. For us — The Barefoot Bandit — that used to mean crumpled paper setlists, missing song notes, and panicked group chats an hour before soundcheck. But all that changed when we started using Setlix.
Setlix isn’t just a digital setlist tool — it’s become our backstage brain, our rehearsal lifeline, and our gig-day sanity saver. Here's how we use it, and why we’re never going back.
🧠 One Place for Everything
Before Setlix, our setlists lived in a revolving door of WhatsApp threads, PDFs, and someone’s forgotten Dropbox folder. Lyrics were on someone’s phone. Notes about intros or live dub FX? Scattered across sticky notes, or worse — forgotten altogether.
Now, everything’s in Setlix. Every song we play is stored with:
PDF attachments (lyrics, horn parts, arrangements)
Private notes ("Watch the tempo on the outro", "Wait for nod from drummer before dropping the bassline")
Sections to break down our sets: Intro, Mid Set Bangers, Encore
We can update things in seconds and trust that everyone — from our guitarist to our sax player — is looking at the exact same version.
📲 Rehearsals Got a Whole Lot Smarter
Instead of wasting rehearsal time figuring out what we think we’re playing, Setlix lets us show up prepared. Everyone sees the upcoming setlists in advance, complete with notes and documents. We can tag songs we’re rusty on or flag songs for potential reworks.
We’ve even started creating mini-setlists just for rehearsals, like:
New Ideas Jam
Festival Set 30 Min
Extended Dub Night Set
This helps us keep things focused and fresh — no more guesswork or winging it.
🛠️ Built for Real Gig Life
The magic of Setlix really shines when we’re on the road. Whether it’s a tiny pub gig or a big festival slot, we all have access to our setlist on phones or tablets — even if there’s no signal. No more taping paper to the stage or reprinting after soundcheck changes.
We’ve customised our view for performance mode:
Big font
No distractions
Just the info we need, when we need it
Bonus points: our sound engineer can quickly glance at the setlist too, making transitions smoother and dub drops tighter.
🧪 Experiment Friendly, Panic-Proof
We love to experiment. Extended intros, live looping, spontaneous dub breaks — but we need a structure to bounce off of.
Setlix lets us duplicate existing setlists to try different versions for different shows, without losing anything. We can add a new version called “Extra Spicy Version 🔥” or “Chilled Sunday Flow” and test it live.
If we need to revert? One click. No stress.
🎤 For Bands Who Care About the Music and the Madness
If you're in a band where no two gigs are the same — if you’re juggling arrangements, players, tech setups, and energy shifts — Setlix is a game-changer. It’s saved us time, arguments, and a whole lot of last-minute scrambling.
It’s built by musicians, for musicians. That’s why it feels right. It’s not bloated software trying to be a CRM for your band. It’s a sharp, smart tool that fits into your flow and gets out of the way.
TL;DR: The Barefoot Bandit x Setlix = Tight sets, clear heads, and better gigs.
And the best part? We get to focus on what we love most: making dubby, high-energy music that gets people moving — while Setlix quietly keeps it all glued together behind the scenes.
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Setlix isn’t just a digital setlist tool — it’s become our backstage brain, our rehearsal lifeline, and our gig-day sanity saver. Here's how we use it, and why we’re never going back.
🧠 One Place for Everything
Before Setlix, our setlists lived in a revolving door of WhatsApp threads, PDFs, and someone’s forgotten Dropbox folder. Lyrics were on someone’s phone. Notes about intros or live dub FX? Scattered across sticky notes, or worse — forgotten altogether.
Now, everything’s in Setlix. Every song we play is stored with:
PDF attachments (lyrics, horn parts, arrangements)
Private notes ("Watch the tempo on the outro", "Wait for nod from drummer before dropping the bassline")
Sections to break down our sets: Intro, Mid Set Bangers, Encore
We can update things in seconds and trust that everyone — from our guitarist to our sax player — is looking at the exact same version.
📲 Rehearsals Got a Whole Lot Smarter
Instead of wasting rehearsal time figuring out what we think we’re playing, Setlix lets us show up prepared. Everyone sees the upcoming setlists in advance, complete with notes and documents. We can tag songs we’re rusty on or flag songs for potential reworks.
We’ve even started creating mini-setlists just for rehearsals, like:
New Ideas Jam
Festival Set 30 Min
Extended Dub Night Set
This helps us keep things focused and fresh — no more guesswork or winging it.
🛠️ Built for Real Gig Life
The magic of Setlix really shines when we’re on the road. Whether it’s a tiny pub gig or a big festival slot, we all have access to our setlist on phones or tablets — even if there’s no signal. No more taping paper to the stage or reprinting after soundcheck changes.
We’ve customised our view for performance mode:
Big font
No distractions
Just the info we need, when we need it
Bonus points: our sound engineer can quickly glance at the setlist too, making transitions smoother and dub drops tighter.
🧪 Experiment Friendly, Panic-Proof
We love to experiment. Extended intros, live looping, spontaneous dub breaks — but we need a structure to bounce off of.
Setlix lets us duplicate existing setlists to try different versions for different shows, without losing anything. We can add a new version called “Extra Spicy Version 🔥” or “Chilled Sunday Flow” and test it live.
If we need to revert? One click. No stress.
🎤 For Bands Who Care About the Music and the Madness
If you're in a band where no two gigs are the same — if you’re juggling arrangements, players, tech setups, and energy shifts — Setlix is a game-changer. It’s saved us time, arguments, and a whole lot of last-minute scrambling.
It’s built by musicians, for musicians. That’s why it feels right. It’s not bloated software trying to be a CRM for your band. It’s a sharp, smart tool that fits into your flow and gets out of the way.
TL;DR: The Barefoot Bandit x Setlix = Tight sets, clear heads, and better gigs.
And the best part? We get to focus on what we love most: making dubby, high-energy music that gets people moving — while Setlix quietly keeps it all glued together behind the scenes.