How to connect ChatGPT or Claude to UK gigsAdd one address to your assistant and ask about gigs, open mics, venues and gig rates in your own words. Free, and read-only until you say otherwise.
TL;DR
Paste https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcp into Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as a custom connector and your assistant can answer UK live music questions from live GigXchange data.
It takes about 1 minute, needs no keys, and starts read-only. Members can sign in so it also reads their own calendar and bookings.
I have lost count of the Sunday nights I spent scrolling venue pages to find somewhere to play that week. For years that was the job. Now you can ask your assistant, in a sentence, and get an answer from real listings instead of a guess.
The catch with asking ChatGPT or Claude about gigs has always been that they do not know what is on. Their training stops months back, and a web search often turns up stale pages. Connecting them to GigXchange fixes that: the assistant asks our directory directly, the same data behind the gig directory and the open mic finder.
The connector at a glance
Live counts from the same directory the connector reads. Setup takes about 1 minute.
- 8,670+gigs it can search
- 1,440+open mics
- 2,820+grassroots venues
- £0to connect
Live counts from the same directory the connector reads. Setup takes about 1 minute.
1. What the GigXchange AI connector is
The connector is a small server your assistant can talk to. You add its address once, and from then on, when you ask about UK live music, the assistant fetches the answer from us rather than making it up.
The connector in three cards
Three things worth knowing before you add it.
2. How to add it in 1 minute
You start from inside your assistant, not from GigXchange. The address is the same everywhere:
https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcpWhere to paste it, assistant by assistant
The address goes in a different menu in each app. Pick yours.
Signing in (members only)
If you want it to see your own gigs, the assistant opens a GigXchange sign-in page. Log in, read what it is asking for, approve it. The connection then shows under Connected AI assistants in Settings, Integrations, AI. The full walkthrough lives in the help centre.
3. What to ask it, by role
Ask the way you would ask a mate who knows the scene. Answers come back with links, so you can check them yourself.
If you play
Find me open mics in Leeds on a Tuesday with a PA provided, and tell me what time sign-up starts.Then go further: ask what a pub gig pays in your city and it reads the GX Index rather than guessing. More prompts for players: 12 ChatGPT prompts for gigging musicians.
If you book a venue
Which duos in Bristol are free next Saturday, and what does a duo usually get for a pub gig there?It checks who has that date free and reads the rate data, then links each member profile. For the rest of a booker's week, see 12 ChatGPT prompts for venue bookers and the AI booking inbox workflow.
If you are an agent or promoter
List grassroots venues in Manchester under 300 capacity that book indie bands, with their gig pages.Venue pages carry what the venue directory holds on capacity and genres, so you can check fit before you get in touch. Agents and promoters: for agents and for promoters.
If you just want a night out
What live music is on in Glasgow this Friday night?4. What it can see and do
A new connection can only read. Nothing changes on your account unless you turn that on yourself.
Three rules that keep you in control
Whatever you connect, these hold.
5. For developers
Endpoint and transport
A remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP at https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcp. Public tools need no auth; member tools use OAuth.
Server card and registry
The server card is at https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcp/server-card, and we are listed on the official MCP Registry as app.gigxchange/gigxchange. Plain-text map for AI tools: llms.txt. How our data fits together: the knowledge graph.
Keep reading
Try it with one question tonight. If the answer is wrong or thin, tell us: that is how the directory gets better. Everything about the connector in one place: the AI connector page.
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Annual refresh commitment
This guide was published on 19 October 2026 and is refreshed every October. We re-verify every reference, recommendation, and data point once a year. Next scheduled refresh: October 2027. If any claim is outdated before then, email support@gigxchange.app and we aim to update it within one working day.
