Comments on: Songkick: social media site for concerts

By: Music Hack Day, the Stockholm edition « zed equals zee

Music Hack Day, the Stockholm edition « zed equals zee — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:16:35 +0000

[...] on Tour: This hack links together info from two focused social media sites, Songkick for concerts and Dopplr for travel, to make concert recommendations for your upcoming trips. Since [...]

By: debcha

debcha — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:22:34 +0000

Heh, I didn’t mean to put Boston Band Crush on the spot (well, actually I did, but you don’t necessarily have to act on it). It just seems like Songkick would be infinitely cooler if you actually got to see your fellow concertgoers at local shows, preferably ones where you aren’t on opposite sides of a giant arena.

By: Sophia

Sophia — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:09:26 +0000

yes, we just booted another service (that I won’t name) from our site that we were using for show lists, as I got really tired of shows being listed wrong and bands complaining to us about thier service — we’ll definitely be looking into this!

By: Mike Epstein

Mike Epstein — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:03:15 +0000

You caught us! Looks interesting…

By: ashcakes

ashcakes — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:53:49 +0000

Roger that loud and clear, Debcha. We’ll look into it!

By: debcha

debcha — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:36:46 +0000

Thanks very much for coming by, Ian. I’m looking forward to seeing Songkick grow and improve.

By: Ian Hogarth

Ian Hogarth — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:35:12 +0000

Hi Debcha,

Thanks very much for writing a post about our new site, and for some great feedback. We definitely need to do a better job of data quality – as you point out with the Mountain Goats example. Our next big project is to set up better tools for cleaning up our data. Hopefully you’ll see some improvements in that area soon.

Most of our upcoming data comes from our crawlers which pull the information from lots of different ticket sites. This misses some smaller shows though and we’re hoping that hardcore live music fans will help point out other data sources we could crawl or even add the gig to the site themselves.

Thanks again for the write up.

Ian