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Artist and band sign-up

Band sign-up

Paste your links. We'll do the typing.

Four screens. Most of the work happens on screen two, where you paste what you have already put online instead of writing a bio for the ninth time — and where you prove you are a real band.

Every screen, in order, with what it captures beside it. Nothing is filled in for you, and the last screen makes a real account.

1Who2Links3Your page4Go live
1Who are you?

The band, and the one person who'll actually answer emails.

What happens

Deliberately short, because the next screen does the heavy lifting. If a link on screen two reads as a name, you can take that name in one click rather than typing it again.

Captured
  • ·band name → your page address, reserved as you sign up
  • ·home town · what pubs filter by when they look for a local act
  • ·contact name and email
  • ·your login, hashed — never stored as you typed it
Before this gets built

The link badges are researched, not guessed. Spotify's Web API gives artist images, genres and top tracks on a client-credentials key. Bandcamp's API is restricted to labels and merchandise fulfilment partners — account, sales and merch endpoints only — so there is no way to read a band's catalogue and it has to stay a plain link. SoundCloud now requires an Artist Pro subscription at the band's end before an app can be registered at all. Instagram is business and creator accounts only. Check each one again before building — these terms move. Until then this page reads the address you paste rather than pretending to have fetched something from it.

Already signed up? Your band admin is here.

Questions bands ask

How much does a band page on The Snug Club cost?
£3.50 a month, and every band gets six months free before it starts. Not the first hundred, every band. You can cancel from your own page in two clicks, and we write to you before the first payment rather than after it.
Do you take a cut of what I sell?
No. Nothing off your music, nothing off your merch, nothing off a gig you get through the site. The subscription is the whole arrangement.
How do pubs find my band?
By town, by what you sound like, and by what you charge. Those are the three things a landlord filters on, which is why the sign-up asks for all three and why a page with a fee on it gets more enquiries than one without.
Why do I have to paste a link to sign up?
Because a name and a home town are free to invent and a Spotify artist page is not. At least one link — Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube, Bandsintown or SoundCloud — has to resolve to a real profile before a page goes live. Pubs book acts off these pages, and a directory that anybody can fill with invented bands is worth nothing to the pubs and therefore nothing to you.
Can I upload a sample of my music?
Yes — one clip of up to thirty seconds, which plays on your page. Pick the half minute you would want a landlord to hear, because that is the bit that decides whether they ring you.
Do I need to be signed, or have a record out?
No. The whole site is built around unsigned bands and records nobody has heard of. If you have played a room above a pub and have something recorded, you are exactly who this is for.