A continuing series of insights from the stage at the local club level...
13. If you book the show, play the show. Short of a band member being dead or ineligible for bail, if you said you were going to play, then play. No excuses.
Even limited to my experiences, this list is nowhere near complete. I planted it as one of the first pages when I began this blog with the very first handful of points from the quickest surface skim of my gray matter. It will continue to grow.