We are a noticeboard for live music

Ask anyone who books a room how the last cancellation went and you will hear the same story. The act pulled out on the Tuesday. Somebody remembered a band who played in March, could not find the number, asked two friends, sent four messages, and the Friday went out with a playlist and half a bar.

Meanwhile four acts within a mile of that room would have taken the night. They did not know it was going. Nobody was hiding it from them. The information simply lived in one person's phone.

That is the whole problem we set out to fix, and it is smaller and more boring than a mission statement. Put the night on a board. Say what it pays, when it starts, what gear is already in the room and how many places are left. Let anyone who fits put their hand up.

How a night gets booked here

A venue posts the slot with the date, the times, the fee and the backline. It goes on the gig board immediately, no approval queue, no listing fee.

Artists apply with a profile they wrote once, so nobody retypes the same introduction for the fifth time this month. The venue reads the genre, the rating and the booking history side by side rather than digging back through a thread.

The venue confirms, the number of open places drops, and the gig turns up in front of the people who might come to it. If it is cancelled the listing goes down and everyone who applied is told, which sounds obvious and almost never happens.

What it looks like from where you are standing

If you play, your profile is the thing you keep. Genre, rating, the gigs you have actually done. Applying after that is one click, and what you have applied for sits on your dashboard instead of in your memory.

If you run a room, you post a slot the way you would write it on a whiteboard, and read the replies in one place. A corner pub with a house PA uses the same form as a nine hundred seat theatre, because the awkward Friday is the same problem at both.

If you just want to go out, you get the calendar the industry uses, without knowing anybody. Festival main stage, basement jazz, a Sunday session in a bar with four people and a fiddle. All of it on the same page.

The money is written into the listing. What the artist reads is what the venue agreed to.

We do not take a cut of the door and we do not charge an artist to hold a profile or to apply. Door splits, guarantees and tips are stated up front, and settled between the two people who agreed them on the night. Ratings exist so a room and an act can recognise each other, not so anyone can be ranked.

Where we are today

Honestly: early. There are 7 venues on the board across 4 cities, 6 acts with profiles, and 10 slots open as this page loads. Ticketing, registration, check-in and the merch shop are built out to different depths, and a room can use as few of them as it likes. If something you need is missing, tell us and it will go on the list ahead of whatever we thought was next.

Things people ask

What does it cost an artist?

Nothing to hold a profile or to apply. The fee in the listing is the fee you are paid.

Who can post a gig?

Anyone with a room and a date. We do not vet venues by size.

Do you take a percentage of the door?

No. That money never passes through us.

Can we use the ticketing on its own?

Yes. The parts are separate on purpose. Plenty of rooms only want the check-in.

Something is broken. Who reads that?

We do. The contact form goes to a person, and a reply usually takes a day.

If you have a room, or a set, put it on the board: create an account or tell us what you are running.