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[RF Scott]

Originally Posted by Daniel

pay attention to what?....................chilli promotions presents

...Interesting Music Promotions presents. Notice how announcements made about these shows are posted by 'chili,' and notice the post right above yours for even more obvious clues.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Cloud

That's what I mean - it's still fiddly to click between calendars when a page listing (that could perhaps be printed out) would be far easier.. I know for me at least, if I could print out a page of gig listings for that month, it would make remebering about them far easier.

Pfft. You're just lazy.

Still, not a bad idea.

[shaun]

Originally Posted by Daniel

not being cheeky but........ what shows do you put on, ive never heard of you doing anything

hahahahahahahaha

[Daniel]

Originally Posted by CliveRavensby

...Interesting Music Promotions presents. Notice how announcements made about these shows are posted by 'chili,' and notice the post right above yours for even more obvious clues.

ok i see them now and their is alot of them, but for some reason i never noticed them before

[You Nazi]

Originally Posted by Hog

Anyway, Radio sounds like a really good idea. Webcams too

looks like they missed this one

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Neil

hmm...I like this idea and it would be dead easy to do. What would be better - upcoming gigs in the next week or the next month? Actually, the box on the front page already displays the next 5 days worth of gigs so maybe a month ahead is better.

Chris actually came up with the rather good idea of sending out an e-mail to all registered members with a "Upcoming Gigs" listing that would also do the same kind of thing - maybe every month or week or so. I might implement this as well but don't worry, people could opt-out of it if they wanted to!

A combination of both would be best I suspect - perhaps a weekly listing by e-mail, with monthly listings available on the site? People tend to turn off with long e-mails, but something like "The Week Ahead" would be interesting. Perhaps to differentiate the two, the monthly listings would be just that, listings, whereas the weekly e-mail would have descriptions of just what the event was about?

To incorporate it into the sponsorship scheme, perhaps the weekly e-mails could have descriptions *if* the event was ran by a sponsor in some sort of way, to encourage people to sponsor the site - otherwise, they'd get a plain listing?

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Cloud

whereas the weekly e-mail would have descriptions of just what the event was about?

I don't like this idea purely for the reason that I believe the email will just be dragging information out of the calendar. And as I don't add descriptions of calendar entries, just links to the original thread this idea would mean more work for me

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Chris

I don't like this idea purely for the reason that I believe the email will just be dragging information out of the calendar. And as I don't add descriptions of calendar entries, just links to the original thread this idea would mean more work for me

Now who's lazy?

Would it not be possible to set it up so people would submit their own descriptions, so the whole thing would be automated? The idea would be that sponsors would do their own effort in submitting descriptions within a certain limit, then when it's time to send out the e-mail, it doesn't actually require much effort at all? Having seen what's possible with PHP, surely something like that wouldn't be hard to code?

[Balvack]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

Yeah, Aberdeen-Music radio seems like a great idea. Local band material would be the best option.

Would something like this be workable DIY radio ?

Seems to work for this guy Tartan podcast and loads of others available here

[ClicheGuevara]

The radio wold be amazing if it worked. I'd just watch not to go overboard with local bands being on all the time, having a wide range of music playing. Having interviews, guest DJs, people trying to put on a comedy show (haha, how ace) would also be really good.

I agree with putting out a monthly e-mail with gig listings as being a good idea. Maybe having links from the the e-mail to the website with either the gig, or the individual bands descriptions? I don't know if that is too much bother, but it would be very helpful.

If this doesn't happen, could the promoters/venues be given the ability to send users their gig listings? This could be optional from their CP, so they could choose the venues they would want to hear from. Aberdeen-music wouldn't need to be a part of this, they could just give the e-mail addresses of people who have checked their box, and then the promoter is responsible for making and sending out the mail.