Comments on: Searchable small gigs database feed site thingy please

By: laure

laure — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:49:18 +0000

Please tell me if I’ll ever get to see Frank Sidebottom live. I never have and fear I never will. bonne_laure@voila.fr

By: Jez

Jez — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:41:04 +0000

Just had that pattern matching thing again. Dropped off a prescription at the chemist. Toddled over to the traffic lights. Pressed button. Glanced around with a view to sneaking across on the red man. Notice the remains of a poster on a lamppost which reads “The Jeffrey Lewis “.

The small gigs thing is here already on our street furniture. Pete – move to Moseley.

By: Jez

Jez — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:04:47 +0000

I was very taken by “Meat Raffle” and “Inside Lav”.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:57:44 +0000

dunno, i think they’re fairly confident of it sellign out anyway – we had to turn people away last time and didn’t have anyone as good as frank on.

that said i did take some posters down to them last sunday, and i was in there on thursday and they hadn’t put them up (still there only so much i can do…)

By: Jez

Jez — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:28:27 +0000

For the record, Jon, I saw the Frank Sidebottom poster that was strapped to the pedestrian crossing on Moseley High Street. Bear in mind that I walk past the Kav at least twice a day, and not noticed anything there. Arn’t they interested in promoting gigs at their own pub?

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:41:34 +0000

It’s a huge problem promoting gigs round brum – i’ve been promoting the Frank Sidebottom (Variety Is Back!) gig for the best part of two months, but it’s bloody hard to get anywhere to list stuff.

You’d think that the “What’s On” would at least put stuff in the listing – but nah. Neither has, i think, any of the other websites or anything that i’ll submitted the info to.

I think a brum/surounding areas site would be better than a national one – if it worked it could always be expanded.

You’d need to get the ear of the local promoters – the catapult club & the like – and a decent website (I’ve done a few with news feeds – like the Birmingham It’s not Sh*t one – but nothign on this scale).

Tickets still available for Frank btw, or wou can pay on the door http://www.varietyisback.co.uk

By: Jez

Jez — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:28:52 +0000

Since I lucked onto the Dead Kennedys gigs, I have been thinking the exact same thing. A what’s on in Birmingham and Black Country, which spits out a billion customisable RSS feeds – show me today, show me only the tribute bands playing at the Wulfrun, show me comedy gigs in pubs, etc, etc, etc. Haven’t done anything about it, naturally. Setting up the infrastructure wouldn’t be the hard bit, it would be getting the data in and keeping it current. I’m far too much of a slacker to do that, or to trawl round everywhere getting the venues to do it.

I picked up the Dead Kennedys thing by random pattern matching accident. I was in Nostalgia, handing over the comics-cash, and I spotted their name on a Wulfrun flyer without actually looking directly at it. They were reasonably fresh in my mind, because Jello Biafra had come up in conversation at the previous pubmeet.

Last night, I spotted a flyer for a Frank Sidebottom – the bard of Timperley – from across the road.

We shouldn’t have to do that. We should have software to do that for us.