We’re always looking for ways to do good – whether through our environmentally-friendly ticketing system, supporting grassroots events promoters and venues, offering exceptional service to customers, or partnering with charities and fantastic campaigns like Tickets for Good and The Ticket Fund. Earlier this year we joined with Tickets For Good to become the first contributors... Continue Reading →
Emergency Grassroots Music Venues Fund & Other Funding Opportunities
The government has made £2.25m available to help grassroots music venues through the next few months, but the window to apply for a grant of up to £80,000 is short - with it due to close on 3rd August. If your venue would benefit from these funds you can find out more and lodge your application... Continue Reading →
Fundraise through WeGotTickets – The Event That Never Happened
Calling all venues, promoters, artists and arts organisations! During this difficult period we’re …
DIY Access Guide: Making a Venue Accessible to Disabled Audiences
For the last couple of years we've been partnered with Attitude is Everything, a frankly incredible charity and inspiring bunch of people whose work is dedicated to improving disable access to live music. We're delighted to let you know about their latest initiative, the DIY Access Guide, which promises grassroots musicians, promoters and venues a practical... Continue Reading →
Fluffer Pit Parties: Interview with organiser Al Brown
In a couple of weeks the Coronet will be packed full of sweaty, moshing kids surrounding The Black Lips as they kick out the jams at the latest Fluffer Pit Party. We sat down with the man behind the coolest gigs in London (and quite possibly the world) to find out how the gigs came... Continue Reading →
5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your E-marketing
How many times do you check your inbox every day? I personally lose count, and although I may spend more time on Facebook, most of that is spent sifting through holiday snaps, fake news and cat videos. Email is a more personal and direct form of interaction, and so it’s not surprising that studies show... Continue Reading →
A Brief History of The UK Music Festival
It’s that time of year that people refer to as ‘festival season’, but with so many festivals on offer all year round, there’s a case to be made that every season is festival season. We’re spoilt for choice in the UK, with city festivals, seaside festivals, all-dayers, multi-venue, multi-genre, family friendly and family unfriendly events... Continue Reading →
We Are The (Customer Service) Champions
We'll let you guys worry about who deserves to top the album of the year lists, or whether England have any chance at the World Cup, because the only trophy we care about is the ticketing industry’s Outstanding Customer Service Award. And, if you’d been at the recent Society of Box Office Managers (SOBOM) Awards,... Continue Reading →
A ‘Springwatch’ for live music: Get involved with the UK Live Music Census
As event organisers you don't need us to preach about the cultural contribution made by live music every day across the UK. Just this week I saw The Moonlandingz at The Bullingdon in Oxford, and it was totally unforgettable. But how do we quantify the value of this? And what of live music's economic contribution?... Continue Reading →
Let’s Be The Change: Improving Diversity at Music Industry Conferences
A few weeks ago I sat on a panel at The Cellar in Oxford to share my wide-ranging, extensive, and not-at-all-made-up-on-the-spot wisdom about promoting and marketing independent music events to a room full of budding promoters and musicians. On a panel of six that day, two were women. And here's the thing anyone that goes... Continue Reading →