Complicated.
We’ve been sat on this for a little while, not too long. Weeks, not months. Sorry. It’s come from a few little discoveries we’ve all had working with music over the last few years: Namely, that good quality music information is hard to find, and that you’d be silly to rely on one place for all of it. In the past, I’ve often found myself listlessly sifting through various websites on the lookout for the latest, most useful information on a band I have just been listening to, or loved and missed. Of course – I eventually found it – but I’ve never been sure who was the most reliable source. Who got to the story first? Who has the best access to the information? And which site merely read the story, copied it and rewrote it?
Likewise, Music fans like us rely on music information a fair bit: to tell you when a band announces a tour, a new record, to tell each other what we think of it, or even just to find out what artists are up to. Most importantly (and this is the irritating bit) there’s nowhere to go to find out who the most talked about bands of the moment are and just find a way to see them play – we’re all agreed that it’s the only way to know if they’re any good.
Gigulate has been designed with the help of music journalists and writers to quickly solve that little conundrum. Our mighty wizards are almost done creating a machine able to find out who’s talking about bands you love, and who everybody is talking about that perhaps you don’t know. In the shortest space of time, you’ll be able to get right up to speed.
All of this information will help you decipher music without wading through endless pages, the Gigulator is designed to work out who the most authoritative sources are, and bubble up the best stories with Gigs for every band available right next to them so that you can book tickets to the most talked about bands easily. This very second, it’s sat in the corner of our tiny bedsit, sifting through the mass, and learning as it goes. Less time spent = more time for fun.
More on how it will work soon,
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