The Tucson Weekly and Club Crawl made a big step in technology and the live music experience by providing music lovers with text and web updates on the Fall Club Crawl music festival Saturday.
Sean Fitzpatrick, a corporate web specialist, set up the feature on ClubCrawl.net, the event’s website, and provided music fans and concert goers with updates on band sets, show times, traffic, crowd size, you name it. On the site, crawlers had the option of entering their cell phone number and name in order to receive free text messages from mobile correspondents who were covering the festival.
I was asked by Tucson Weekly editor Jimmy Boegle to help direct mobile coverage of the event by trying to hit multiple shows, comment on their quality (is the band good live, are they playing good songs?), alert festival goers of late set times and crowd size, etc. However, I was unfortunately out of town for Fall Club Crawl (one of my favorite events) but was able to keep tabs on the event from afar due to this new text message feed and mobile coverage.
By skimming ClubCrawl.net under their RSS Feed, you can see the types of text messages that music lovers were receiving from mobile correspondents, one being “Line at District. Come now for Tom Walbank,” and “The ‘entrance’ 8th and 4th is less of an entrance, more of a closed off block. Don’t bother,” and “To guarantee you see They Might Be Giants buy reserved for 25 at Rialto (includes crawl wristband). Otherwise come early to get a spot.”
This RSS Feed proved to be very helpful to crawlers in that the festival has multiple bands playing at multiple venues simultaneously and could have become confusing for many.
The live RSS Feed for Club Crawl goers took a step in the right direction for coverage of live shows, and was extremely informational and helpful.
Check out this video of Guilty Pleazeurs’ live performance of “Cherish” at Club Congress, provided by user jamesfreddys on YouTube.
1 comment:
You could have let us know. :-)
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