Same as MusicLiveCOLCHESTER, but for Ipswich
Music Live Ipswich is a comprehensive, not-for-profit resource for the thriving Ipswich live music scene
It's just a labour of love, or a hobby, if you prefer. We built it because it wasn't there yet. We're constantly out and about in town enjoying the live music scene, and just needed a site like this to exist. So here it is.
All information is presented in good faith, and we reproduce it as it is made publically available by the venues and artists. We strive to make the site informative, useful, accurate and fun. But. We are only human, and probably get a few things wrong sometimes. We welcome corrections, clarifications and constructive feedback.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are a band, artist, venue or general-purpose nice person: it seems fairly likely that we can find ways to help each other out.
We are not selling anything, and we are not buying anything either.
Email us. Any address @ this domain will reach us. Or say hello on BlueSky at simon.colchester.social.
The site is built in Python on the Django framework, and the canonical data store is MySQL. A lot of the data is rendered out to Elasticsearch for indexing and, increasingly, a graph database in Neo4j, which powers things like related artists/artist network.
Everything is hosted on a cluster of Ubuntu Limux servers by Fasthosts, who—after 25 years with them—I fully recommend (whilst receiving zero commission for saying that).