Gig listings
Who is on this week
Right now the only answer is: ask Facebook, and hope the post is recent.
The problem, plainly
A listing that expires is not a listing
A Facebook post about Friday’s band reaches the people who already follow you, sits near the top of a feed for a few hours, and is then effectively gone. It cannot be bookmarked. It cannot be found by someone searching. It cannot be checked next month.
A listings page is the opposite. It is there at 8pm when someone is deciding where to go, it is there for the person who has never heard of the bar, and it is there for a band checking whether the room is worth asking about.
Deliberately blank
One line per gig is all it takes
Nothing here is invented. This is the shape, waiting for content:
- Date
- Act — doors — cover
- Date
- Act — doors — cover
- Date
- Act — doors — cover
Send a month’s worth and this page stops being a placeholder.
Also worth having
An archive, not just a calendar
- Past gigs left up are proof to the next band that the room is active.
- Each act’s name on its own page is a small search win every time someone looks that band up.
- Neither is built here, because inventing a gig history for a real venue would be worse than useless. Say the word.