owngig.com

After the success of our Blow Monkeys gig and a week filled with lots of great press coverage, we’re looking forward to planning the next gig. While we can’t say who it is yet, it’s coming up closer than you’d think

One thing we’ve seen on the web recently was that one of our favourite comedians, Chris Morris is using the crowdsourcing to fund his new project, Four Lions. After Channel 4 and BBC1 ran scared of the new comedy project, Four Lions which darkly satirists the world of Islamist miltancy, Chris turned to the internet and in association with Warp Films, asked punters to pay £25 each to fund the project. In return they got the chance to appear in the show. So, similar to Owngig.com, the public get the chance to get a personalised experience for funding the project.

In other site news…

We’re pleased to see that bids for Tom Waits is edging close to 100. Not least ‘cos we quite like Tom Waits. We’d love to get him over here, so keep bidding. Also if you have any ideas for suitably Tom Waits-esque places he could perform a gig, drop us a line…

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Owngig.com comedy channel, allowing you to bid for your favourite comedians and create your own bespoke experiences just as you can currently with the world of music. Perhaps you’d like to see Josie Long, Russell Howard or Frankie Boyle?

Anyway, start thinking about who you’d like to see and start placing bids. It’s no laughing matter

We have now updated the site to include a mapping system so that you can now state which town or city you’re from more precisely. In addition you can also now make a bid for 1 or 2 tickets per event.

There’s more to follow soon including a widget to place on your social network profile, enabling you to display latest bids and invite friends to join you.

Thanks for visiting Owngig.com, the site where crowdsourcing meets ‘live’ events.

Having attended gigs for too many years to mention it has always baffled me as to why fans don’t get more say in where artists choose to tour.

Now that is set to change, and through this community we enable users with similar tastes in music and comedy to come together, demonstrating to artists where there is sufficient demand to add a tour date or even arrange a private gig.

We are well connected with record labels, artist management and the booking agencies and will ensure that your collective voice is heard whenever we detect strong interest in a specific show. Furthermore in due course we will be allowing artists themselves to post shows to the site itself, creating a trading platform for future performances.

Its still early days for us, hence the alpha status of the site, so we are very keen to understand where you think we can improve the service. We have even created a section in Contact Us to make suggestions / complaints about Owngig.com - please do let us know so we can add relevant suggestions to our future plans.

If you have any questions then please refer to the FAQ first as we may have it covered already.

Finally look out for the Owngig.com widget which will be available for most social networks very soon. This will enable you to display your first, best and worst gigs in your profile as well as creating your own gig and inviting others to join you.

That’s it for now, but we will be posting regularly to update you on our plans and to announce new shows so please come back soon.