Band admin -> Your numbers
Your numbers
Who has been looking at your page, where they came from, and what they did when they got there.
How it works
- Views is how many times your page was opened; people is roughly how many different people that was within a day.
- How people found you says which part of the site they came from - the gigs pages, a pub's page, the band directory. A landlord who found you from a pub page is a different kind of lead from one who was browsing the directory.
- Saved is members keeping you on their list. You get their public name and nothing else.
- What would make a difference is the list of gaps on your own page, ordered by what they cost you. A page with no audio on it is the first one.
What to do
- If nothing is happening, work the gaps list before anything else. Audio first, then dates.
- Compare the periods rather than reading one number. The direction matters more than the figure.
Worth knowing. We do not record IP addresses and we do not follow anybody across other sites. The rough people count uses a code scrambled fresh each day.
Band admin -> Your page
Your page
A preview of what a landlord sees when they look you up, and how much of it is filled in.
How it works
- Landlords search this directory looking for somebody to book. What is on your page is the entire basis of that decision.
- A page is not public until somebody here has looked at it. Until then it exists, you can edit it, and nobody else can see it.
- The order matters: a landlord listens before they read. Audio first, then where you are and what you cost.
What to do
- Fill in everything before you ask to be published. A half-filled page is the main reason one gets held back.
- Look at it on a phone. That is where it will be read, usually standing up, usually quickly.
Band admin -> The band
The band
Your name, where you are based, when you started and what you charge from.
How it works
- Where you are based is how landlords filter. Put the town you would actually travel from, not the town one of you lives in.
- A fee-from figure is not a quote and nobody treats it as one. It is there so a landlord with eighty pounds does not waste your evening.
- Sounds like is free text and it works better than genre tags on their own. Three real comparisons tell a landlord more than four genres.
What to do
- Give a fee-from figure even if you would rather not. Pages without one get fewer enquiries, not better ones.
- Keep the name exactly as you spell it everywhere else, so searches for you find you.
Band admin -> The band
About you
The written part: who you are, and who a landlord should ask for.
How it works
- Two or three short paragraphs is the right length. This gets read standing up behind a bar.
- The contact name is who the landlord asks for. A first name is enough and it makes a cold enquiry much easier to send.
- It is not a press release. The ones that get booked read like a person wrote them.
What to do
- Say what a night with you is actually like: how long you play, how loud you are, whether you bring a PA.
- Put a name in the contact field. Pages addressed to nobody get fewer messages.
Band admin -> Your page
Music
One audio sample, played straight from your page.
How it works
- One, not a discography. A landlord gives you thirty seconds, so the question is which thirty seconds.
- It plays in the page. Nobody has to leave to hear you, which is the entire reason it is here rather than being a link.
- It is stored on our own file storage rather than embedded from somewhere else, so it does not disappear when a streaming link rots.
What to do
- Pick the track that sounds most like a night with you, not the one you are proudest of.
- Start it where the song starts. An intro is a landlord closing the tab.
Worth knowing. Upload only music you have the right to share. That normally means your own recording of your own material, or a cover you are licensed to distribute.
Band admin -> Your page
Links
Where else you exist, and the one link that gets your page published.
How it works
- Links go on your public page so a landlord can go and check you out properly.
- At least one of them has to resolve to something that is recognisably you. That is the bar for having an account here, and it is the thing we look at before publishing.
- It does not have to be a big following. A page with four hundred followers and real gig photos is better evidence than a page with nothing on it.
What to do
- Put in the one link you would send a stranger who asked to hear you.
- Check each link opens. A dead link is the fastest way to have a page held back.
Band admin -> Gigs
Gigs
Your diary: every date you are playing, here or anywhere else.
How it works
- It deliberately takes any venue, not just pubs on this site. The dates that make a page worth looking at are often the ones somewhere else.
- A venue and a date are all a gig needs. Time, price, ticket link and a note are optional, so you can write down a November booking now and fill it in when the poster exists.
- If the venue is a pub on the site you can pick it from the list, which links the two pages together. Otherwise just type the name.
- Listed controls whether the public sees it. An unlisted gig is still in your own diary.
- Past gigs stay in your list and stop showing publicly on their own.
What to do
- Put everything in, including the dates that are not at our pubs.
- Add a date the day it is agreed. A diary you update monthly is a diary nobody trusts.
- Untick Listed for anything private, rather than leaving it out.
Band admin -> Offers
Offers
Landlords asking you about a date, and where you answer them.
How it works
- A landlord finds you in the directory and sends a note about a date. It arrives here as a conversation, and you reply in the same place.
- It does not go through us and we take nothing for it. Whatever you agree is between you and the pub.
- New messages are marked. The dot goes when you open the thread.
- The more of your page that is filled in, and the more dates on it, the more of these you get. That is the whole mechanism.
What to do
- Answer quickly, even if the answer is no. A landlord filling a Friday asks three acts and books the first to reply.
- Confirm the specifics in the thread: what time you are on, how long you play, what you are bringing. It is your record of the agreement as well as theirs.
Sign your band up
What it costs a band
The price of a page, and what we take from a booking.
How it works
- A page is free, for the same reason a pub page is free: without acts and venues there is nothing here.
- We take nothing from a booking. The fee you agree with a pub is entirely yours and we never see it.
- There is a paid add-on for people who release records as well as play them. It is optional and the page does not need it.
Sign your band up
The link we insist on
Why the form will not finish without a link to you somewhere else.
How it works
- One link that resolves to something recognisably you is the bar for having an account. It is the only check at sign-up.
- It is not about follower counts. It is about a landlord being able to satisfy themselves you exist before they give you their Friday.
- A link that has died is the single most common reason a page is held back at the publishing stage.
Not answered here? Ask us. A person reads it.