Back in 2012 I was going to a lot of gigs. Usually at least one a week.

For a while I thought it was a good idea to share my thoughts about the gigs I saw. And this site was the result.

Initially I just listed the shows, so the early posts are pretty dull - just containing dates, venues and acts. But later on, I started to write actual reviews of what I had seen. I also had the idea of including YouTube videos of the shows. One of the sad things about revisiting this site recently is to see how many of those videos no longer exist.

It didn’t last long - just a couple of years. I was often slow at getting round to writing the reviews, and I sometimes found I couldn’t really remember enough detail to make the reviews interesting. For the last few months, I was just posting videos. I think I had the idea I would go back and fill in the reviews later. I never did.

At the end of 2015, I finally stopped. But the site remained online and it still gets a few visitors from Google every month.

The original site was built using WordPress. That was a decent enough decision at the time, but I’ve been slowly removing WordPress from my life over the last few years, so today I bit the bullet and reimplemented it using Jekyll and GitHub Pages. If some links are broken, that’ll be why. I’ll carry on tweaking to fix that stuff over the coming weeks.

Maybe you’ll find something interesting or nostalgic on the site. I hope I wasn’t too nasty about your favourite band.

- Dave (November 2025)