Central Information Distributor

[Kelly Ashkettle]

I started utahgoth.com a couple of years ago primarily to be a concert listing. I do pretty much what Jordan does for his 'zine: check all the venue websites and band MySpace pages and compile everything in one place. 

It's a really simple site, not nearly as complex as pghgoth.com. I primarily maintain it for myself so that I can keep track of things, but I figure some other people are interested as well, as it averages about 75 hits a day. I do an update about once a month, posting the new listings to the utahgoth LJ community at the same time. When I do that, there are usually one or two people who pipe up with events I may have left out, so that helps.

I think it cost me $8 to register the domain through godaddy.com.
If you're really interested in seeing a central listing spot, why not register pghgoth.net and make one?

--KellyA


----- Original Message ----
From: Jordan Harris <jdecay at worldnet.att.net>
To: PghGoth listserv <pgh-goth-list at listless.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:19:50 AM
Subject: RE: Vocal Gems


I think that one of the differences between today's scene and the scene
 of
the last decade was that now, more than ever, finding out about shows
requires a more active participation. 

When compiling the concert listing for my zine, I check bands' myspace
 pages
(though often times the bulletin feature provides notification as well,
 if
one is on a band's friends list), venue websites, check the City Paper,
check the previously mentioned former-Roboto bulletin board, and keep
 my eye
out for flyers when I'm out. It doesn't really take that long, it's
 just
that there's no one-stop source for the information, and checking
 requires a
bit of diligence.

Word of mouth also helps, but it's not necessarily the first
line-of-promotion these days.


-----Original Message-----
From: pgh-goth-list-bounces at listless.org
[mailto:pgh-goth-list-bounces at listless.org] On Behalf Of Manny
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Brian J. Parker
Cc: PghGoth listserv
Subject: Re: Vocal Gems

only a handful of people ever read this list, look at livejournal, or 
look at myspace's pghgoths group.
and pghgoth.com itself has been down and frozen for quite a while.

but i don't necessarily think shows are any smaller. looks like VNV 
Nation and Rasputina did well. Haujobb, Cruxshadows, Assemblage 23 and 
Brian show with that girl (forget her name) all seemed to do just fine.
Chemlab tanked, but that was expected because of its proximity to VNV. 
Freezepop I'm sure will do fine
(btw, that's Feb 16 at Pegasus). Even more fringe electronic stuff like
 
the recent Drumcorps show did alright.

Somehow, people are still finding out about all of these things without
 
a central information distributor (like pghgoth.com and this list used 
to be). Yet things still seem to be happening with regular enough 
frequency.

So I wouldn't worry about it too much.

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