Terms

Who you are agreeing with

This agreement is between you and [legal entity name] of [postal address], who operates Stage Search. Using the site means accepting these terms; if you do not, do not use it.

What this site is

We publish listings for live music and let artists and organizers find each other. Every show here is put on by somebody else. The times, prices, age policies and ticket links are supplied by artists, venues and imported sources, and we do not independently verify them.

Always confirm with the venue before travelling. Shows move and get cancelled faster than any listings site can follow.

Tickets are not sold here

We never sell tickets and never take ticket money. Where a listing has a ticket link it goes to whoever is actually selling, and your purchase is with them under their terms. We deliberately do not display ticket prices, because the seller is the only authority on what a ticket costs and a stale price is worse than none.

Your account

Use a real email address you control, keep it to one account per person, and do not share your sign-in link — anyone holding it can get into your account. Tell us promptly if you think somebody else has.

You must be at least 13 to hold an account. Some listings are for age-restricted events; the venue enforces that at the door, not us.

Artist pages, and claiming one

An act gets one page. Creating a page for your own act is self-service. Taking over an existing page is not: those often come from imported listings and carry a real band’s name and history, so a claim is a request that a person reviews. Claiming an act you are not part of, or impersonating anyone, gets the account removed.

Listings we did not get from you

Some listings are imported rather than posted by the act, so a page may exist for a band that has never been here. Those pages are marked as unclaimed and show only performance information — who is playing, where, and when.

If you are the act and you want the page changed or gone, you do not have to claim it first. Write to [contact email address] and we will correct or remove it. We would rather have an accurate listing than a complete one.

What you post

You keep ownership of everything you upload. By posting it here you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, display and distribute it as part of running and promoting the site — showing your poster in the feed, in search results, and in the shareable poster images the site generates. That licence ends when you delete the content, except for copies already shared by other people and for backups still working their way out of the system.

You need the right to post it. Gig posters, band photos and artwork usually belong to a designer or photographer, and “it was on our Instagram” is not the same as owning it. Do not upload anything you do not have permission to use.

If we are hosting something that is yours

Tell us and we will deal with it. Send [copyright email address] a message with:

• a link to the page showing the material;
• what the work is, and where we can see your original if it is online;
• confirmation that you own it or are authorised to act for whoever does, and that the use here is not permitted;
• a way to reach you.

We remove or hide material that appears to infringe while we look into it, and tell whoever posted it. If they think we got it wrong they can reply, and if the reply holds up we put it back. Accounts that repeatedly post other people’s work get closed.

Bookings are between you and the other party

When an artist and an organizer agree a booking here, the agreement is between those two. We are not a party to it, not an agent for either side, and not responsible for anyone turning up, paying up or playing well.

No money moves through this site yet. The deposit and fee figures shown during a booking describe how the system will work once payments are connected; today they are an illustration, and any money changes hands directly between you.

Contact details are hidden until a booking is confirmed. That is a speed bump to keep negotiations on the record, not a security measure, and it is not an obligation on you to stay on the platform.

Reviews and diary entries

Booking reviews can only be written by someone who completed a booking with the person they are reviewing, and neither side sees the other’s until both are in or the window closes. That is so the first honest review does not invite a retaliatory one.

Gig diary entries are a fan’s own record of shows they went to. They are kept separate from booking reviews and never averaged together. Write what you actually think; do not write things you know to be untrue about a real person or business.

Things you must not do

• Impersonate an act, a venue, or another person.
• Post listings for shows that are not happening.
• Use the messaging to send spam or unsolicited advertising.
• Harvest personal information, or scrape the site at a rate that gets in other people’s way.
• Try to break, overload or get around the site’s access controls.

Moderation

Anyone can report a page or listing, including people without accounts — the person best placed to spot a fake band page is often a fan who never signed up. We can remove content and suspend accounts where these terms are broken. If we remove something of yours we will tell you why, and you can reply to [contact email address].

No guarantees

The site is provided as it is. We do not promise the listings are accurate, that it will always be available, or that a booking will work out. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you for anything arising out of the site is limited to the amount you have paid us — which, while the site is free to use, is nothing.

Nothing here removes rights you have as a consumer that cannot be signed away, or excludes liability for death, personal injury or fraud.

Ending it

You can delete your account whenever you like, from settings. We can close an account that repeatedly breaks these terms. Some things outlive the account by design — see the privacy page for exactly what and why.

Changes, law, and contact

We will date any material change to these terms on this page. They are governed by the law of [jurisdiction], and disputes go to the courts there.

Questions go to [contact email address].