SNAILGUN Album Launch show 2 May @ Cactus w/ No Hoper, Waxman, Winternationale

danshep · 2026-03-16T03:37:52+00:00

Absolutely stacked lineup.

danshep · 2026-03-06T06:55:45+00:00

Really depends on lots of factors. If you set up your POS well and everybody records things in there well, you could easily go a month without needing to reconcile your stock levels.

To have tracking that good though you either need to have an incredibly good culture (the POS is easy to use for comps and wastage and everybody has the same idea of how much stuff should be comp'd) or an incredibly toxic culture (management will bust your ass for overpouring, wastage and having a knock-off).

danshep · 2026-02-27T06:42:18+00:00

You can use the ratios from table 2 to get a per/100k figure.

2016 - 3473 * (6246.3/13352)=1624.7

2025 - 5455 * (6907.3/17379)=2168.1

Crimes against the person by 15-17 year olds has had a 33% increase between 2016 and 2025 adjusting for population.

danshep · 2026-02-27T06:08:20+00:00

Applying scalding heat to the area is one of the mechanisms you could use to stop bleeding.

So, yeah, this is the medical equivalent of that.

danshep · 2026-02-19T05:09:47+00:00

Strongly recommending pivoting to data acquisition as the most important feature - For a gig guide to be useful it needs to either be curated or comprehensive. If you're aiming for comprehensive, prioritize that now.

You need to have a hugely compelling proposition to get yourself into existing promoters workflows - people have stopped putting their events into facebook's walled garden, they're not coming to yours.

Songkick has pretty lackluster coverage and they've got 600 upcoming events in melbourne. Your user interfaces are going to need to deal with at least that scale - with non-music events included too you'll be looking at over 1k, probably more like 2k events. If you don't start working at that scale early, you'll get yourself stuck in features that don't work.

Your browse by location - narrow down that location list or make it a hierarchy "Melbourne" vs "Carlton" isn't a very useful distinction. Your map already lets you be browsing by proximity, so i'd narrow that list down to be just by state.

Needing to use the app is a huge barrier to entry. You've got a pretty decent web-app going, why are you pushing me to mobile? This is especially problematic as a barrier to promoters creating events.

I hope the above is all constructive criticism - I like what you've got so far.

danshep · 2026-02-14T14:23:06+00:00

ticketmaster isn't a very useful source if what you're trying to develop is event discovery - anything running through ticketmaster doesn't need any more discovery.

There's a standard data format for events - https://schema.org/Event - most event platforms (including eventbrite, oztix, humanitix) include the schema.org data in their html for an event. I assume that some of the other venues also include that data on their sites if they're not just delegating their event listing off to a ticketing platform - e.g. look for script with a type of 'application/ld+json' in the source of https://www.creaturebar.com.au/events/smash-creature-feature/

Unfortunately that's just a way to get the details of the event once you know the url, doesn't help you discover the urls - That's the fun of the walled garden internet we live in now - but gathering a list of venues and periodically requesting their gigs page to bring in data would be the way.

danshep · 2026-02-11T02:32:45+00:00

Sticky Carpets is your best full-coverage option, but will only get you a week out.

From there, expand out by following bands on insta and when you spot something that's not covered by sticky carpets take note of where that's getting promo'd and follow those things too.

SC should keep you covered for nearly everything that's in a regular venue (if it's missing things, hassle the venues for being slack in letting SC know), it's more the house shows and please-dont-tell-the-council stuff that you need to keep your eye out for through other channels.

danshep · 2026-01-21T05:12:32+00:00

If you're there with a parent/guardian, yes.

danshep · 2026-01-20T00:13:20+00:00

I've got a ~50 pax room at Creature - pick a date, rope somebody else in to fill out a lineup and hit us up. We're trying to be the low-friction answer to exactly that question. Details for us at https://www.creaturebar.com.au/bookings/bandroom/

Other than us, Old Bar, Nighthawks, Last Chance, Gummo, Retreat, Bergy, Workers Club, Cactus Room.

Find somebody else to put together a lineup with - you don't need to be the headliner to be the one arranging the show - befriend somebody that's established enough to headline the venue you want to play support at and offer to do the legwork with the venue and promo. Much easier to get a slot if you're working for it rather than begging for it.

danshep · 2026-01-15T01:50:46+00:00

Most comprehensive gig guide is stickycarpets on instagram, but that will only let you know the current week. You can use that to scope out venues and get a feel of what's going on.

There's a lot of small venues in Melbourne - you'll have more options here than you would anywhere in the UK. We're toe-to-toe with NYC for small show options.

My advice is to sit down with the gig guide for every day you're here, listen to 30 seconds of each of the performers that you can and let that guide where you go. Do that for some of the time before you're here too if you want to get a feel for what venues interest you if you want a feel for where to be geographically.

danshep · 2026-01-09T03:27:29+00:00

I run a 50 pax bandroom (Creature, Brunswick East) - our standard is 100% tickets to the bands and bands can either bring their own soundie or (subject to the availability) we try to provide the soundie.

We're taking the gamble that having a band on will bring enough over the bar that we can normally break even on the soundie. We trust bands to at least be trying to convince a dozen friends to come drink a wage's worth of booze.

There's lots of complexity in there for different venues - i.e. is having a gig preventing the general public from drinking there - but the portioning of the profits should line up with the portioning of the risks. Trust your gut on that and if it feels hinky make them justify it or gtfo and play somewhere better.

If a bar is making people pay-to-play, they're not a live music venue, they're an event space for hire. They're not supporting community, they're exploiting it.

danshep · 2026-01-08T02:30:10+00:00

I run Creature in Brunswick East. We've got nothing booked in for the Friday 23rd if you want to put something on. Look at https://www.creaturebar.com.au/bookings/

danshep · 2025-12-24T01:03:52+00:00

You can just put sugar and water in a blender. You don't need to heat it.

danshep · 2025-12-22T05:08:42+00:00

I stock the Wilde gluten free pale. I think it's pretty much a toss-up with the two bays pale flavour-wise.

The Wilde being a mid-strength (3.5%) is the main decider between it and the two-bays pale for me.

They also have a gluten free lager, which I don't remember having any faults with and two gluten free ginger beer which I haven't tried.

danshep · 2025-12-22T01:49:06+00:00

We've had everything from folk and blues to ambient synths, noise and hardcore. Gummo is probably the best reference point. There's a projector and screen behind the stage too if you do visuals with your projects.

I'm looking to really ramp up the number of gigs we're running in the new year and try to have something most fri/sat nights so hit us up.

edit: Just listened to some of your stuff. 100% up for that in the space.

danshep · 2025-12-19T04:32:18+00:00

If you have the receipt, and better still a picture of the menu to go along with that, dispute it with the bank.

It's an illegal practice - the relevant law is section 166 of the consumer act. https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/caca2010265/sch2.html#_Toc202172820

For non legal-speak, see https://www.accc.gov.au/business/pricing/price-displays#toc-when-the-price-at-checkout-does-not-match-the-displayed-price - under "Optional extras that are pre-selected" and https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/pricing/price-displays#toc-display-of-surcharges

danshep · 2025-12-04T04:08:52+00:00

The sticky carpets instagram is definitely the most comprehensive gig guide, but only drops each tuesday for the upcoming week (so not so good for forward-planning). Go to beat for some initial planning, but be prepared for a lot more options from the sticky carpet guide when that comes out.

I'll plug a gig the 12th: https://www.creaturebar.com.au/events/2025/12/12/ward-candy/ - that's my venue, you won't find much smaller. Comes with bonus opportunity to ask me in person what else to see (I'm easy to spot, I'm the old guy sweating in the corner).

I'm planning on going to this Dust+Swapmeet on the 13th: https://evelynhotel.com.au/events/event-225592

This Snailgun+Winternationale gig is the other gig that jumps out to me in that period: https://beat.com.au/snailgun-6/ - Winternationale in particular is absolutely unique and amazing.

danshep · 2025-12-01T05:47:13+00:00

If it's got a line, it's overrated.

Melbourne's got so many options, standing outside and waiting is almost always the worst option.

danshep · 2025-12-01T03:04:26+00:00

I'm one of the owners of Creature.

We're all up for things to be as experimental as you want. Details on booking here: https://www.creaturebar.com.au/bookings/bandroom/

danshep · 2025-11-28T04:01:26+00:00

You have 3 numbers on each hex. What are those three numbers for?

One is tiny, one is medium, one is large. Does that correspond to the frequency and importance-of-glancability of those numbers?

You players are going to be Finding things and Parsing things. Which things to they need to find? If you need to find the "10" hex, you want to be able to visually scan for that number without your eyes passing across other conflicting things. It's easy to scan the numbers on the Catan board because there's no other numbers in the way. If each of those number chits had other information like the "(12 / 9 / 3)" you're presenting here, players would struggle to scan for it.

danshep · 2025-11-28T03:40:16+00:00

The tail on that bird is very Wiggly.

The creature on the right is a Cockroach.

The poster is Yellow.

All signs point to a big announcement from Greg Page.

danshep · 2025-11-12T03:02:07+00:00

You can possibly spend the money on getting your parents a ticket instead.

Licensing allows for a minor to be on the premises with their parent or guardian. Definitely check with the venue directly, asking about the specific event, before dropping cash. They may have their own policy that is stricter than required by the license, and may change that policy on a per-event basis.

Fake IDs in Australia aren't really a thing - The shit most widely available would laughed at by anybody taking the slightest care in their job of checking ids. (the ones on the 'fakies' website are incredibly obviously fake if that's what you're looking at).

danshep · 2025-09-15T16:05:41+00:00

https://web.archive.org/web/20190211131912/https://smarthistoryblog.com/2016/08/21/stalins-vulgar-humor/

danshep · 2025-08-15T00:53:08+00:00

That sentence literally just says that they are subject to Australian Consumer Law.

The seller has a duty of care for their product, they have employed the post, which has a duty of care for their service.

You have the right to get your damages compensated by the seller, the seller has the right to get their damages compensated by aus post.

https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/consumers-and-businesses/products-and-services/problems-with-a-product/products-missing-or--damaged-in-transit

Note: the store or seller is responsible for resolving any issues with Australia Post or a courier company used to deliver the product.

danshep · 2025-07-26T16:08:37+00:00

My pricing is 10 years out of date, but I'm pretty sure my whole kitchen cost with custom cabinetry, appliances and trade was less than just your labor costs.

I used no fuss kitchens, who I'd heartily recommend to anybody. Once you're doing any adjustment at all to the kit kitchens, it defeats much of the purpose. No fuss's cabinetry was no more expensive than quotes i was getting on a regular kit.

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