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Launched: ConcertsTO.com

Posted Friday October 8, 2010

ConcertsTO is a new concert ticket listing website that makes it easy to find concert tickets for upcoming events in Toronto.

Instead of checking multiple retailers for events and/or tickets, you can get all the event information you really need with a single click.

While developing it over the weekend, I aimed to keep it as simple as possible because I was unimpressed by sites like eventful.com, jambase.com, and bandsintown.com. Although feature rich, they are either cumbersome to use, missing events, or make it difficult to get a quick glimpse of who’s playing in town.

New features that I’m toying with adding include:

  • Listing Massey Hall events Done.
  • Video/music playback so you can easily sample the artist (ie. Youtube integration)
  • Myspace integration of some sort

If you have any feedback or comments, I’d love to hear it.

Comments

If you can think of a way to separate each day without throwing off your clean aesthetic that would be nice. When I’m finished looking at one day, I often like to skip ahead two or three to the next evening I happen to have free, and it would be nice to do this without having to keep my eyes locked on the day number like I do on rotate.com.

Another (awfully minor) issue I’ve always had with Rotate’s list is a lack of day names. I like knowing where in the week certain days are without, frankly, having to think about it. I’d guess that adding MONDAY, TUESDAY WEDNE— etc. would be inelegant, but maybe colour-coding the weekend listings would be enough.

Also, maybe an RSS feed of new entries would be useful.

Awesome work, though. I’ll be using this regularly!

Nick - Tuesday October 19, 2010

I like it. I agree that Day Names (or abbreviations) would help, as well as a small separator between days. It would be helpful to link to the venues, and a link to the band’s website.

darb - Wednesday October 20, 2010

Thought about the day of week indicator, just never got around to it. Day separator sounds useful.

Will add both if they can be done cleanly.

I’ve toyed with indicating new events and providing a RSS feed, but it would require a bit of a rewrite. Will keep it in mind.

Tariq - Wednesday October 20, 2010

Good stuff, nice clean and simple interface. I second the comments about including a day reference.

A link to the band myspace might be cool too, if that does not place too much burden. If this is a re-feed type page then that may not be applicable.

Days of the week – that would be great.

Howard - Wednesday October 20, 2010

Hi Tariq,

Thanks for providing this awesome service. I can’t believe it never occurred to me to create a similar service. It’s right up my alley.

I wanted to echo the RSS suggestion. However, in addition to listing new events, it’d be amazing if it could detect events that changed too: i.e. dates, cancellations, new venue, etc.

Mark - Wednesday October 20, 2010

RSS! Woohoo!!

Thanks again. I’m so grateful this service exists.

Mark - Monday November 15, 2010

Hey, I really like the site! But I just noticed that you took away the sort links at the top of the columns. I liked those!

Jon - Thursday December 9, 2010

Yeah sorry. Those had to go because I added the day of week grouping. I did eventually get around to adding a search/filter feature though.

Tariq - Friday June 17, 2011

how do I submit a concert listing please? Your site is awesome, and I’d like to participate. Thanks!

Christa Weber - Saturday November 5, 2011

Hello,
We have a concert event to put on your website.
The Stampeders are coming to Toronto on Friday April 20th, 2012 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
How can we get this event posted?
Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson - Thursday March 15, 2012

@christa @mike: I’ve added the ability to add concerts now.

Tariq - Saturday March 17, 2012

I think your website looks well and functions well. My only hope is my request to have access to your concert listing website be granted. Busted Muzzle Would love to be a part of this action.

Lorence - Monday May 6, 2013

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My name is Tariq. I am a twenty something website developer based in Toronto, Canada, working at kanetix doing what I love to do. Yeppers, I like turtles and get on (the TTC) daily.

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