Songkick’s Day Out

A couple of weeks ago, Team Songkick ventured out of our cozy East London HQ and hit up the surrounding concrete wilderness. But what is there to do on a rainy day in the East End I hear you cry? Well, we ate great food, went hunting for street art,…

The Hardest Working Bands Of 2012

If you’re anything like us, your preconceived notions of touring are of beards, buses and the open road (based exclusively on Almost Famous). A quick look at the numbers, however, and a life on tour looks nothing short of heroic. Using Songkick’s concert data, we’re able to calculate both the…

Seven Holograms That Would Blow Your Mind

If you weren’t at Coachella 2012, you were probably sat at your laptop, eating munchies, browsing Reddit, when all of a sudden you saw these words: Tupac, hologram, Coachella. I won’t choose a gif to describe your inevitable WTF moment, but I think we can all agree it was pretty…

Man Vs. Coachella

The first edition of Coachella 2013 is just days away, and the margins are tight. For 99% of you those 72 hours will be bananas, but one wrong move could leave you broken and lost, with a mouthful of polo field. To that end, we thought we’d go all out…

Social Studies and Flaming Dr. Peppers: SXSW 2013

Being that I’m the Artist Ambassador here at Songkick, I packed up my earplugs, sunscreen, and business cards to head to SXSW a few weeks ago (from which I’ve only just now recovered). Having just got off a monthlong tour in Europe with my band Loch Lomond, heading straight to…

Together, fans new and old bring Braid to London after 13 years

Back in January we started a conversation with our friends over at Punktastic about the kind of bands they’d love to see, the kind of bands that the Punktastic community would be up for pledging for to bring to London. Like every good pub music conversation we ended up talking…

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