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Bandwagon is a live gig listings website that should help you bury the boredom on any given night.
Founded in 2011 in Singapore, Bandwagon aims to connect people to live music in Asia. The guy who built Bandwagon, Singaporean Clarance Chan, loved live music so much that he kept on manually writing down gigs from event boards, taking photos of posters he comes across with, and the occasional online write-ups.
Finally, he said screw that and then he built Bandwagon. Fast forward to 2015, and Bandwagon is now in Metro Manila. It just launched in March and in a month’s time, Bandwagon PH has more than 100 gigs listed, with 200 artist profiles and over 50 active venues in Metro Manila alone.
Apart from helping music heads find gigs, Bandwagon should be able to give a bigger stage to local music; it encourages artists and event promotes to submit a gig to Bandwagon, too. With its regional hold — it started in Sinagpore, after all — Bandwagon is a great place to attract new audiences from across Southeast Asia.
Apart from gigs and venues, the site also has artist profiles, plus album and concert reviews to boot. We won’t be surprised if soon, we’ll find record stores in there, too.
Anyway, to mark its Philippine entry, Bandwagon is offering the Bandwagon Bus to the Wanderland Music Festival, happening on April 24-25.
Apart from transportation to the festival (yaaas! No more parking hassles!) and priority entrance to the fest, the Bandwagon bus will also take you to some of Manila’s best record stores and live music venues.
There will also be live performances inside the bus as well as entrance to the festival afterparty.
Anyway, enough of the talk. Check out Bandwagon and see what fun could be had in Metro Manila on this searing Monday. Interested in the Bandwagon Bus to Wanderland? This way, ma’am/sir.
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