Songkick

I just got back to the office after the long weekend to find some great press about us bouncing about the interwebs.

First of all Elisa Bray does a round up of live music related resources. I hadn’t seen some of the sites before including Drummer Hunter and Better Than the Van and they’re pretty cool. If you’re in/looking to start a band they’re worth checking out. She kindly recommended Songkick for keeping track of tours in your area. Welcome to our new visitors from The Independent! The bit on Songkick reads:

If you struggle to follow your favourite bands’ tour dates, register with new site www.songkick.com, which will inform you about forthcoming tours near you, as soon as they have been announced. They’re tackling the right market – it’s all about the live show for bands these days – and they aim to become the most comprehensive online ticket search service. For a start, it’s much slicker than www.ents24.com. Enter the names of your three favourite bands and your home town and the site will email you updates so you can be the first to know about shows. While the site is London-based, it covers cities and towns across the UK and is most useful to fans living where bands’ tours are less frequent. The site also recommends other gigs that match the genres of your chosen three top acts.

There’s also been some great coverage of the Songbird/Songkick tour dates partnership including, Ars Technica, Digital Media Wire, Extendably, Pocket-Lint and Web Monkey:

But the coolest new tool is Songkick, which lists upcoming music events for specific regions but also narrows down your list based on the artists you’ve been listening to. (via Pocket-Lint)

Finally I wrote a guest post for TechCrunch UK about hacking in the UK and a need for more developer related meetups. We’re running our next London Hacker Meetup on September 4th – would be good to see any developers reading this there!