Southern Hops Brewing Company

Hot Fish Club Gazebo is a waterfront seafood-and-steak entertainment room with Tuesday-Sunday music in peak May-August season, Thursday-Saturday dates from September through April, and a 21+ shift after 9 PM. The booking rules are strict and useful: cover acts only, four hours of material required, and performers provide their own sound system. This is a long working restaurant-bar shift beside the water, not a two-set art project with an emergency encore. Build a proposal around proof that you can carry four hours: live video, full lineup, cover repertoire, desired dates, draw, set schedule, and a complete PA plan. Confirm indoor or gazebo placement, power, speaker coverage, mixer, monitors, microphones, soundcheck, load-in, weather backup, payment, meals, drinks, breaks, merch, age-policy timing, and promotion. A four-hour show requires pacing: you need strong openers, mid-evening reset points, and enough songs left after the third hour that nobody senses the band is now negotiating with its own memory. Waterfront restaurant programming favors beachy rock, country, reggae, classic hits, blues, Americana, southern rock, party covers, and broad-appeal bands that can handle families early and a more adult late crowd. The seasonal schedule makes flexibility valuable, and the supplied-sound absence makes preparation mandatory. Hot Fish Club suits seasoned cover bands with a full working repertoire and a professional PA. Bring the four hours, build the pacing, and make the gazebo feel like a destination rather than a shelter from weather.

The Pier At Garden City runs live music seven nights a week across both bars from mid-March through December, then closes for January and February. The Murrells Inlet calendar favors classic rock, country, soft rock, and Southern rock. Bands seeking a date must submit a live performance video by email, making stage proof more important than a paragraph full of heroic adjectives. Capacity, age rules, PA, monitoring, backline, technical staffing, set times, and the final deal are not confirmed, so those details require direct agreement. The long operating season offers many potential dates, but the venue’s two-bar format and nightly schedule make the actual room assignment essential. A useful submission should show exactly what the band sounds and looks like in front of a crowd.

Bar Mash is a page lists Monday Prime Rib & Live Music from 7-9 PM. The venue combines live entertainment with food, drinks, and conversation, so musicians need to complement the room while still giving guests a reason to listen. For musicians, controlled volume, strong vocals, and a compact, professional setup are especially valuable. Solo artists, duos, trios, and compact full bands can all work depending on the night, with the strongest performers able to move smoothly between atmosphere and higher-energy moments. Bar Mash is worth considering for musicians whose audience size, stage setup, and live format match the venue’s scale and atmosphere. Before pursuing a date, bands should think about whether their normal set length, equipment footprint, volume, and audience draw suit the way people actually use the space during live events.