Brass bands deserve a living map too.
We’re building brass.bndy.live: bands, productions, concerts, festivals and the relationships between them, assembled from public evidence and projected into bndy only when we’re confident enough to stand behind it.
Not another scraped events list.
A brass band changes name. A sponsor changes. A conductor appears for one concert. A band tours a named show. A website gets updated. A contest result records an old identity. A venue lists a date differently to the band.
Those are not just rows. They are claims about real things.
Sources
Official organisations, event listings, historical records, venue pages, ticket pages and regional directories.
Observations
What did this source actually say, when did we see it, and where did it come from?
Claims
This is the current band name. This is one of its Productions. This Concert is at this venue on this date.
Verification + inference
Independent evidence reinforces or conflicts with a claim. Confidence rises, falls, or goes to review.
Projection
Only when the evidence is strong enough do we project a clean canonical Band, Production, Concert, Festival or Venue into bndy. Ambiguous identities stay out until they are resolved.
Canonical bndy record
One persistent identity, linked to the evidence that made us believe it.
A band is not just its current name.
Sponsored and historical names can all describe the same organisation. bndy keeps one identity and attaches name history to it instead of creating duplicates.
Different names. Same band.
The Band, the show and the Concert are different things.
A Band can have several separately branded shows or programmes. We call those Productions. They belong to the Band, but they are not duplicate Band profiles and they are not individual Concerts.
A Concert can simply be the Band appearing in concert, or it can be a dated performance of a specific Production. That means bndy can understand the difference between who is performing, what they are presenting and when and where it is happening.
Band ≠ Production ≠ Concert. Keeping those identities separate lets us connect them properly instead of flattening everything into event titles.
Inference helps. It never outranks ownership.
Evidence suggests something is true.
The band, venue or organiser publishes it directly.
The real organisation takes ownership of its bndy profile.
Identity has been confirmed against trusted contact evidence.
New evidence can challenge old evidence. It cannot silently overwrite a claimed, verified fact.
Brass does not contaminate bndy.live.
We use the same canonical platform, but publication is explicit. A brass-only Band, Production, Concert or Venue is invisible to the existing grassroots live edition unless we deliberately choose to share it.
["live"]→bndy.live["brass"]→brass.bndy.live["live","brass"]→both, deliberatelyA map you can actually use.
Concerts shows what’s happening, using practical date and favourites controls. Where a Concert belongs to a named Production, bndy can show that relationship too.
Bands switches the map to the home locations of brass bands across the country.
Find the evidence. Understand the relationship. Publish what we can defend.
That is the intelligence layer behind the map.
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