Last week, as I was about to visit Markus (starfrosch.ch) in Bern, Switzerland, I was faced with a very usual question: What’s happening in the town while I am visiting?
After googling around a bit for event sites, looking at a bit of German and “events” in 2007, I figured to check Last.fm‘s concert search before giving up.
So I logged in and set my location to Bern in the profile and was surprised to see events! After some more browsing and listening, Lucien Dubuis left me very curious. A crossover jazz & rock trio, they seemed like they could be fun, so I figured to check this show out.
Given that all the other concert tracking & notification services can’t even find Bern on the map, I was thrilled!
It turned out the show was taking place in the beautiful PROGR space which hosts a variety of cultural and music events. A lovely evening, both Markus and I really got a kick out of Lucien Dubuis’ performance – they were having lots of fun on stage and it spread throughout the room.
What’s so special about all this? It just made it very clear to me that no matter how great a concert notification service is, it is simply worthless without sufficient data. One can argue that the services I mentioned above just cover the US, but in reality, they don’t even do a complete job there.
I want to know about concerts all over the world in giant cities and small towns, all in one place. Saying “we only do cities” or “we only do the US” is a copout. Where is this service?
god, just marry last.fm already
December 5, 2006 10:08 pm
I think they are already married
December 5, 2006 10:17 pm
Actually, some of us are still available.
December 6, 2006 7:27 am
Anthony,I don’t know programming but it seems to me that with what you have built here, couldnt the same programming be used to find all upcoming events mentioned in blogs, just like music? I’m sure you already thought of that though… is it that not enough upcoming events get mentioned?
I also wonder if there is a way to access only “live” recordings?
December 6, 2006 9:03 am
This is funny (funny strange)- I just discovered this site (I know, a little late to the party!)… but I did a few searches and then began reading the “About Us” page –
You wrote –
For example, if you are looking at search results for “Caribou” you can add the list….
Before reading that I searched 3 bands…Radiohead, Human Television and….Caribou! Strange, right?
December 6, 2006 9:17 am
Last.fm is very nice, i love this site though, sent email but not sure it got through, so please shoot me off an email Anthony.
BR Martin
December 7, 2006 12:08 pm
you should check out gruvr.com – they came from nowhere and map concerts all over the world.. their DB is myspace, so there’s no question of having enough data…
February 22, 2007 9:38 am
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May 13, 2007 4:26 pm