how we find every gig

check. every venue's website and ticket listings get re-read — new gigs land, changed lineups get reconciled, and rooms that go quiet get another look in case they switched ticket providers.

verify. artist names on a bill are matched to real artist profiles only when the evidence agrees — a melbourne pub gig never gets glued to some famous namesake overseas. when we can't be sure, we show the billed name plainly instead of the wrong face. an unresolved name is recoverable; the wrong artist kills trust.

check the money. prices come from structured ticket data, not vibes. "free" means the ticket source says free. sold out means the provider says sold out — we check nightly and never hide it to keep a listing looking alive.

write, only when grounded. the one-line pitches on gig pages are machine-written — and every one carries receipts: the exact pieces of evidence (the venue's own description, a verified artist profile) that back each claim, hashed and stored next to the pitch. if the evidence is thin, the pitch is nothing. an honest blank beats confident guessing, every time.

the guide never hides a gig — completeness is the whole point. curation happens on top: genre vibes are earned from evidence (never guessed from a band's name), and picks lean on real signals — who's actually selling out, what melburnians are saving in the app — not on who paid for placement. nobody pays for placement. there's nothing to pay for.

no bluffing: if we don't know the price, we say nothing rather than guess. no burying: sold out and cancelled are shown loud, not hidden. no pay-to-play: venues and promoters can't buy a spot. corrections, fast: spotted a wrong price, a missing support, a gig we missed? tell us — fixes usually land the same day, and the nightly rebuild catches the rest.

the machinery is built and minded by a tiny team in melbourne (hi). the nightly check finds everything, the database argues about evidence, and a human signs off on how it's all presented. that's the whole operation.