As the first days of summer are approaching quickly, artists are embarking on their tours and festival organizers are crossing fingers for sunny days. In England, for example, Glastonbury is the event to be at and it seems that Gorillaz will do well to fill the void after U2 cancelled their performance. It’s hard to believe, but over the next 3-4 months there will be over 200.000 live music events taking place across UK, US, Canada and Ireland, ranging from small, local shows to 100.000+ people festivals.
Memory of the first concert I went to always makes me smile. I was probably 13 and excited to see my first live show. I wish it was a cool band, like Ramones or the Clash. Unfortunately, at that time my friends were listening to cassettes of Ace of Base on their Walkmans. I was standing in the rain in front of the stage watching Ace of Base perform ‘All that She Wants’ and that’s where my passion for live music was born. I went to many great shows and I will carry memories of them for the rest of my life. However, I missed many more – some because tickets were sold out, others because I learned about them only after they actually took place. According to Ticketmaster and Live Nation, we go on average to 1 – 2 concerts per year. However, we would like to go to one every 1 – 2 months or even more often. In most cases, we simply don’t know that interesting concerts are taking place and our friends, on whom we rely for recommendations, are as well informed as we are.
Two weeks ago, we released the Gig Finder application in Store to help you discover more great music events and navigate through the staggering live music feast that we can expect this summer. Gig Finder is an application that recommends live music events based on your music taste and location. You can search for concerts, find where to buy tickets and compare prices. Gig Finder is integrated with Ovi Maps to help you get directions to the venue and with Facebook to help you invite friends and plan the evening with them. I hope you will enjoy using the application as much as we do.
Gig Finder is currently available for S60 5.0 devices such as N97, N97 mini, X6, 5800, 5530 and 5230. You can easily download it for free from the Store. You will be surprised to discover how many great live music events are taking place around you every day. Show it to your friends and remember to share your feedback with us. We are working on a new release and your comments will help us make the new version even better than the current one.
I hope all of you will have plenty of exciting live music moments this summer. I also hope that the Gig Finder will help you discover great bands and memorable shows and that you will never miss an amazing event again.
-Michal Pilawski
on behalf of the team working on Gig Finder
Source : http://blog.ovi.com/2010/06/22/enjoy-the-best-of-l...