Your band already has a page
Every act and venue in the agendas we read now has a page on Simuze. Here is what is on it before anyone logs in, and what changes when you claim it.
Last month I typed the name of a band I played with years ago into Simuze and found a page. It listed the shows they had played in the last year, the venues, and the other bands on those bills. Nobody had made it by hand. It was built from the agendas of the venues where they had played.
That is how Simuze works now. We read the public agenda of a venue, and every act on a lineup gets a page, so every name on a show links to somewhere. The page knows only what the venue published: the shows, the room, the date, and who played next to them. We keep no private email addresses or phone numbers, and a page nobody runs yet stays out of Google, so it never competes with your own website or your own profiles.
I did not want to wait for every band to sign up before the map had anything on it. An empty map is useless for years, and bands are busy with other things. So the pages came first, and they are meant to be handed over.
Claiming one takes a few minutes. You prove the page is yours with a code sent to an address on your own website, a code you put in your Instagram bio, or by having someone who already runs the page confirm you. After that you decide what is on it. You can add music, a short text, your links, photos of your own, and a way for a venue to ask you for a date. You can invite the rest of the band, and the page keeps working when someone leaves.
Not everyone wants a page, and that is fine. Every page nobody runs has a remove button. You do not need an account and you do not have to explain yourself. The page disappears right away, and we keep a note that you asked, so it does not come back next month through another agenda.
What I like most is what happens on the page before you touch it. Because it is built from shared bills, it shows who you played with and where. A band that has played forty shows already has a history on Simuze, and the people on those bills see their own names link to yours. Nobody planned it as a feature. It is just what a network looks like when the connections are already there.
If you find your band, look at who you played with and tell me what is wrong. The agendas are not always right, and I would rather hear it from you than have it stay wrong.
Love, Marten
Love, Marten