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Add the town to find a venue with a common name

Type "garage norwich" or "garage uk" and the search, the app and the venue box on Add a concert look for the room only there.

624 venues on the site have "garage" in their name, so the one you meant could be missing from the list. Now, when nothing is called exactly what you typed, a town or country at the end narrows the list to that place.

Confirm your address to keep the reminders coming

Anniversary reminders, the weekly round-up and your Rewind mail now go only to an address that has been confirmed.

If a bar at the top of the page says your address is not confirmed yet, click the link in the mail we sent you. Cannot find it? The bar has a button that sends it again. Until then the only mails we send you are that link and one reminder about it.

Sign-up, adding a concert and support say what really happens

We went through the pages you use to join, sign in, add a concert and ask for help, and made each one say what the site actually does.

A concert you add goes on the site at once, and you can add one that has not happened yet; after it is added, press "I was there" to put it in your journal. A venue we do not have yet is added by hand.

On the support page, the small print lists everything that goes with your message, and one person reads every one. Closing your account is something you do yourself, in your settings, without writing to anyone. And after too many wrong passwords, the login page now says to wait a quarter of an hour.

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Seventeen house rules, and the policies brought up to date

The house rules are shorter and plainer, and you need to be 16 or older to join.

Rules that described nothing the site does are gone, and a member who breaks a rule is warned, or has the account blocked when the break is serious or repeated. One rule is new: where the law requires it, or a post threatens someone’s life or safety, a member’s details may be given to the police.

The privacy policy now says what your journal holds and who can see it, how long you stay signed in to the app, and that the police are a possible recipient. The cookies policy says more exactly what turning a cookie off deletes, and how the accommodation map is loaded. The imprint lists every source the site’s content comes from.

Read the house rules

Were you at any of these too?

When you log your first concert, and at each milestone after, the panel that opens now suggests nights you may have been at too.

The other acts on that bill, the same act's other shows in that country, and other concerts in that room around the same time. One press of "I was there" adds any of them to your journal.

Open your journal

Report a problem from the page itself

Every concert, act, venue and festival page now has a "Report a problem" button near the top, not only at the very bottom.

Spotted a wrong date, a missing concert or a map pin in the wrong place? The button opens a short form with the page already filled in, so you only have to say what's wrong. We read every one and fix it by hand.

Open the archive

Milestones in your passport

Your passport now stamps your firsts and your round numbers, with the day you reached each one.

Your first concert, your first one abroad, your first festival, 10 acts, 25 countries, 50 nights rated and more. Beside them, "Within reach" shows how close you are to the next one. Only you see that part; your public profile shows just the stamps.

See your milestones

Take back a review you just wrote

While a review or a reply is still yours to edit, you can also remove it, as long as nobody has voted on it or answered it yet.

Look for "remove" next to "edit". It asks once before anything goes. Your score for the night stays.

The maps are our own now

Every map on the site is now drawn from our own copy of OpenStreetMap, so no outside map company sees where you look.

The maps used to come from a map company in the United States, which could see your IP address and which part of the world you were looking at. Now they follow your dark or light theme, the place names are in English, and you can zoom in to street level. The privacy policy has been updated to match.

Who sees what

Sign-in records expire after a year, and the site has an imprint

The record of each sign-in is now deleted after 12 months, and the privacy policy says how long everything else is kept.

The privacy policy also says who runs the site, what happens to your data outside the EU, and what your rights are. Who runs the site is on a page of its own too, the imprint, linked from the foot of every page.

How long we keep it

Artist pictures, with the photographer's name under them

The picture at the top of an artist or concert page now comes from Wikimedia Commons, with the photographer's name and the license under it.

We only use photos their photographers allow anyone to reuse, and the credit goes wherever the picture does, memory cards included. Took a good one of a band you love? Upload it to Wikimedia Commons under a free license, add it to the band's Wikidata entry, and it can end up here.

Browse the artists

Every review and photo can be reported

Somebody else's review, reply or photo now has a small "report" beside it.

It opens the report form with the item already named, so you only need to say what's wrong with it. For photos, look for "Report a photo" under the gallery. New members also now confirm they're 15 or older when they sign up.

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An empty journal asks one question

A new journal now opens on one question: who did you last see live?

Type a band's name and every night they played comes up, ready for "I was there". The other ways to add concerts are still there, just below it.

Open your journal

Every country in the archive has concerts to show

Picking a country nobody has logged a night in used to say "Nothing in the record". It now lists every concert there.

That was 129 countries, Albania and Malta among them. They now show all their concerts, and the year and decade filters work on them too.

Open the archive

Concert, festival and venue pages open the way artist pages do

The top of a concert, festival or venue page now matches the artist page: the name and the buttons on the left, a big picture on the right.

A concert shows the act's photo, a festival its poster, a venue its address and capacity. The numbers that matter sit right under the name, and each one takes you to that part of the page. A night among the hundred best rated says so above the act's name. City guides open the same way.

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A way to write one, from the reviews page

The reviews page now asks whether you were at a night nobody has written up yet.

Find the night in the archive and be the first to describe it. You can rate and review a past concert even without an account.

Open the reviews

A 2026 view on the charts, and your own place

The charts now have a 2026 view, and Top concertgoers shows where you rank even when you are not in the top eight.

Signed in, your own rank appears under the chart, so you can see how far off you are.

Open the charts

Discover shows which friends are going

Discover now tells you how many of your friends are going to a date.

When people you have been to a show with have the same date in their journal, the row says so: "2 friends going". The save button now reads "+ Bucket list".

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Archive scores say how many people gave them

A rated night in the archive now reads "80% from 3 ratings" instead of a bare 80%.

So one person's 100% no longer looks the same as twenty people's.

Browse rated nights

The front page fits on a laptop screen

On a laptop, the front page now fits on one screen, with the Start your journal button in view.

The headline is smaller and tidier, so it no longer pushes the button out of sight.

See the front page

A bigger picture of the act, and your place among its fans

The act's photo now takes half the top of an artist page, and Biggest fans shows where you stand even outside the top ten.

On a phone the photo comes after the buttons, so Follow is still the first thing you can press. Under Biggest fans you get a row of your own with your place and your nights.

Browse the artists

A festival line-up, one day at a time

A festival's line-up now has a tab for each day, and once a day has happened you can tick every set you saw.

Tap the + beside an act and that set goes into your journal. Tap it again to take it out. During the festival, the line-up opens on today.

Your festivals

Rate a concert with one tap

You can now give a past night its score with one tap, right on the concert page, signed in or not.

The score you pick opens the review form, in case you want to say more. Signed in, "I was there" is now the main button at the top. And the line-up only says "Headliner" where we actually know: it used to call all 214 acts at Glastonbury 2016 headliners.

Open a night from the archive

Rewind: every year you logged, looked back on

Every year in your journal now has a page of its own, with a card to share. This year's opens on 1 December.

How many days you spent at shows, the acts, rooms and towns you went back to most, your average score, and the bucket-list acts you finally saw. A concert counts in the year it happened, whenever you logged it, and every past year stays open for good.

Open your Rewind

The boxes that finish your typing put the answer first

Type "lju" into a city box and Ljubljana now comes first, instead of eleven rows below Herrljunga. Countries work the same way.

Names that start with what you typed now come before names that only contain it. The city box on your profile also answers much faster.

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Naming who you were with, one after another

The box for who you were with now stays open after each name, so adding the second and the third is quick.

Its suggestions now match what you type, instead of listing every name you have ever entered. An empty name is refused, and a name already on the night says so.

See who you went with

The genre tags lead somewhere

Tap a genre tag under a band or on a concert page and you get every night by artists with that tag.

On a concert that has not happened yet, the same tag shows you what else like it is coming up, on discover.

Pick a kind of night

One review per festival, added to over the years

Writing about a festival again adds a dated part instead of starting over, so your review becomes a timeline of the years you went.

Jun 2023 One of the best weekends I have had. Great lineup, well organized.
Sep 2026 They changed the whole concept this year and it fell apart. Would not go back.

The whole timeline shows on every year's page. You need a year of the festival in your journal to write one; look under Rate this festival.

Find a festival you have been to

The house rules have a page, and the sign-up form is a form again

The rules for writing about shows have their own page now, and signing up is four fields and two ticks.

They used to sit in a small scrolling box on the sign-up form, where nobody read them. The house rules are word for word the same, and most of them still come down to one thing: argue about the gig, not about the person you are arguing with.

Read the house rules

Bring your setlist.fm concerts over in one go

Keep your concerts on setlist.fm? Type your username there into your journal and every night you marked as attended comes across.

You see which nights are already in your journal and which are new. Tick what you want and press once. Your setlist.fm username is used for that one request and is not saved, and you can run it again whenever you have added more over there.

Bring your list over

Faster on a phone

Pages now show up on a phone about one and a half seconds sooner.

Google's own page tester puts a concert page 1.5 seconds sooner on a mid-range phone, and an artist or venue page 1.3 seconds sooner. On a good connection you will not notice. On a train you will.

Two front doors that were missing are back

Every artist and every city has an index again.

Browse every artist from A to Z, or every city guide by country. Pages also show a trail at the top now, so you can step up from a night to its venue, its town and its country.

Every artist, A to Z City guide

The same order on every page

Concert, artist, venue and festival pages now run in one order: what you can add first, then what people have written, then the place.

Rating, sharing and your memory card come first; then reviews, setlists and photos; then the map, the address and somewhere to stay. Once you know one page, you know them all.

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A fourth card: the room

A venue page can now draw a memory card too, with your verdict on the room, or the crowd's if you have not given one.

It names the room and the town and counts the concerts logged there. Unlike a concert card, you can draw it again whenever your verdict changes.

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Three cards, two shapes, and one for your whole journal

Every memory card now comes in a post shape and a story shape, and there is a new one that puts your whole concert history on a single ticket.

• A concert card, for one night.
• A festival card, for one weekend, with how many acts you caught.
• A passport, for you: every concert you have logged, the countries, the cities and the act you have seen most.

The cards were redrawn too. Concert cards are on the concert pages, festival cards on the festival pages, and your passport is in your journal.

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Four questions about the weekend, five about the room

Besides rating a night, you can now say what a festival weekend was like, and what a venue is like.

Each question is a simple either/or. A festival gets four: the lineup, the atmosphere, the organization and the ticket price. A venue is asked first whether the place is any good, then about the sound, the view, getting in and out, and the bar prices.

The room's score is that first answer, not an average of the rest, and everybody gets one answer per room, however often they go.

Find a room you have been in

One review per room, added to over the years

Writing about a venue again adds a dated part instead of overwriting what you wrote last time, so your review becomes a timeline of the room.

Mar 2016 Sound is muddy anywhere behind the desk.
Nov 2024 Back after the refit. Night and day.

This is about the building. What you thought of the night still goes on the concert page.

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