Keeping LIVE Music ALIVE
Find live music near you. Tonight, this weekend, wherever you are.
What we believe
SET 1 OF 1Live music doesn't start in arenas
It starts in pubs, clubs, bars, back rooms, small stages and local venues. With bands playing because they love it, venues taking a chance, and people deciding to go out rather than stay in.
That's the bit of live music we care about.
exists to help people find it.
No matter how small the gig.
No matter whether there's a ticket.
No matter whether the artist has 50 followers or 50,000.
If it's live music, it deserves to be found.
Most gigs aren't on the big ticket sites
There are thousands of gigs happening every week that never appear on the big music platforms.
Because there's nothing to sell.
A new originals band playing a free pub gig doesn't generate a booking fee. An acoustic night in a local bar isn't interesting to a ticketing company. A covers band playing a packed little venue might barely exist online outside a Facebook post.
But these gigs matter.
They give original artists somewhere to be heard.
They keep working bands playing.
They keep venues open.
They get people out.
They create scenes.
is built for the gigs everybody else misses.
Free doesn't mean less important
A gig doesn't become more valuable because somebody put a £25 ticket on it.
Some of the best nights happen in places where you simply walk through the door.
So treats free-to-attend live music as first-class live music.
Not filler.
Not an afterthought.
Not something buried underneath ticketed events.
It's at the heart of what we're building.
The scene belongs to the people in it
The bands. The venues. The promoters. The people who turn up.
isn't here to put a tollbooth in the middle of that.
Anyone can send a gig to . BNDY Curators help discover artists, venues and gigs in the places they actually know because they're part of those local scenes.
Automation helps us search further. People bring the local knowledge.
We're here to connect what already exists, make it easier to discover, and help more people through the door.
The technology should serve the scene.
Not the other way around.
You shouldn't have to know where to look
Finding local music is weirdly difficult.
One venue posts on Facebook. Another uses Instagram. A band puts its dates on its website. Somebody else posts a flyer into a local group. Another gig only appears on a listings site you've never heard of.
You shouldn't need to follow 40 venues and 100 bands just to work out what's happening on Saturday night.
That's our job.
searches, connects and organises the fragmented world of grassroots live music, while artists, venues, gig-goers and Curators help fill the gaps technology will always miss.
So you can simply open the map and see what's happening around you.
The map starts with where you are
Most music platforms start with an artist.
We start with you.
Open and look around.
Tonight. Tomorrow. This weekend.
Walkable. A short drive. Somewhere worth going.
Because sometimes you don't know which band you want to see.
You just know you fancy seeing a band.
We measure success in people turning up
Not time spent in the app.
Not endless scrolling.
Not notifications designed to drag you back.
If helps you find a band you've never heard of, walk into a venue you've never visited and have a brilliant night, it worked.
The objective isn't to keep you in . It's to get you out to a gig.
NO TICKET REQUIRED.
Some of the most important live music in Britain happens without one.
Ticketed gigs already have an internet built around them. Free and low-cost gigs often don't.
looks hardest where ticketing doesn't.
We won't hide gigs because nobody paid us.
We won't make artists pay to exist. We won't make venues pay to exist. Ticketed gigs still belong here, but we'll put our effort where the discovery problem is hardest. Eight promises, in writing, no small print.
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Go to gigs. Try a band you've never heard of. Walk into a venue you've never visited.
We'll help you find it. The rest is up to all of us.
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