What We Built in June 2026 — GIGXCHANGE v0.3.2 UK Live Music Platform UpdateCreator Tools and a full EPK, premium app polish, GDPR account deletion, rebuilt venue tools, and the new GX Index rates pillar — here’s what shipped

June ships as v0.3.2 across both halves of GigXchange — the Mainstage app and the public website — on the same day. The app release is all about creator tools and getting app-store-ready; the website release is about content, discovery and reliability. We have split this roundup the same way: everything in the app first, then everything on the website.

If you missed last month, read what we built in May 2026 first — June builds directly on top of it.

The App — Mainstage v0.3.2 (“Creator Tools, EPK & App-Store-Ready”)

The Mainstage app is where artists, venues, agents and promoters run their bookings. v0.3.2 gives artists a proper creator toolkit, sharpens venue tools, adds privacy-grade account deletion, and polishes the whole interface ahead of the Android launch.

Creator Tools and a Full EPK

Every artist now has a full electronic press kit plus three promo generators — a flyer maker, a tour-poster maker, and a setlist-poster maker. Each exports at 2× native resolution, so what you post looks sharp on every screen and in print. The setlist poster ships with square and story formats, multi-sheet smart import, and a create-from-Song-Bank flow.

Alongside the kit, your public profile is now AI-readable — structured so search engines and AI assistants describe your act accurately when someone asks for a band like yours. It is the difference between being a name in a list and being the result that gets recommended. These build on the free Setlist Builder and Booking Contract Generator on the Free Tools hub.

Premium Polish — Hover-Zoom, Avatar Crop, Smoother Uploads

The app got a real interface pass: faster, more interactive, more polished. Every card — profiles, gigs, bookings, events, featured media and the dashboard carousels — now has a gradual, GPU-smooth hover-zoom. Setting a profile photo opens a crop-and-zoom tool that lets you fill the avatar or fit the whole photo with clean black bars instead of cut-off edges, and large images are compressed automatically on upload.

Media uploads are smoother too: instant preview, drag-to-reorder Featured Media, and a reworked “What’s New” ticker rebuilt as a single battery-friendly loop with drag-to-scrub. Reduced-motion preferences are respected throughout, so animation steps aside for anyone who asks their system to minimise movement.

Venue Tools — Getting Here & Access, Plus 9 New Link Types

Venues can now edit far more of their profile. A new Getting Here & Access card captures the practical things an act needs before a gig — transport, parking, load-in, step-free access and curfew — alongside editable regular nights, house rules, and a full address with their own map.

There are also 9 new venue link types: YouTube, TikTok, X, Songkick, Resident Advisor, DICE, Skiddle, Eventbrite and Fatsoma. All of it surfaces on the public venue listing, so an artist or agent can size up a room in seconds instead of trading three emails to find out whether there is parking or a backline.

Account Deletion and Android Launch Readiness

You can now delete your account end-to-end from Settings, with a 28-day grace period you can cancel any time by signing back in. After 28 days your financial records are anonymised — the ledger is kept for legal and accounting reasons but stripped of identifying detail — your stored files are purged, and the rest is permanently removed. This satisfies the UK right to erasure and the Google Play data-deletion requirement.

The rest of the app-store groundwork landed too: restored cross-fade page transitions after the native build, bottom-nav breathing room, a branded 404 page, and a privacy policy aligned with the Play Data Safety form. The native Android build is packaged; submission is next.

Faster and More Reliable

Under the surface, v0.3.2 is quicker and steadier. The invoices page loads roughly 3× faster, the dashboard unread-message badge is faster and more accurate, and a hard-refresh fix means My Gigs, events, bookings and payments no longer flash an empty skeleton on a cold load. My Gigs now uses the same polished card and 5-up grid as Explore, follow / unfollow syncs instantly across the app, and a platform-wide backend-hardening pass tightened data-access controls and indexed the fastest-growing tables for scale.

The Website — v0.3.2 (Content, Discovery & Reliability)

The public website is how people find GigXchange before they sign up. v0.3.2 makes it a genuine reference for UK live music, with the GX Index at the centre.

GX Index — A UK Gig & Band Rates Pillar

The headline is the new GX Index — a free, public reference for UK gig and band rates. It gives real market fee ranges by city, role and act type, refreshed regularly, with a confidence range on every figure: the clearest public answer to “how much do gigs pay in the UK”.

Around it sits a growing reports library: the monthly GX Index issues, the UK Live Music Yearbook 2026, the UK Musician Earnings 2026 report, and a UK Market Statistics page — all gathered in the Reports Hub. There is also a quick, anonymous UK Gig Pay Survey so performers can benchmark their fees and feed the next Index.

Live Aside Rails and a Virtual-Book Guide Hero

Discovery got richer. The home, about, blog and contact heroes now carry relevance-ordered quick-link rails with live member-profile cards and Open Mic Finder shortcuts — flanking the hero, not buried below it. The booking guides (bands-for-hire, how-to-get-gigs, how-to-book, performer and seasonal) open with an interactive page-turning “book” hero, rolled out across every city guide.

Open Mic Finder Upgrades — Directories Re-Verified

The Open Mic Finder was upgraded so the data stays accurate. Every listing is checked against the venue’s own details, closed nights stay visible rather than silently vanishing, and listings without a venue page are flagged. It tracks 1,100+ weekly nights across 120+ UK cities, with 98% free to play — each showing day, signup time, slot length, PA and any entry fee. The Grassroots Venue Directory was re-verified alongside it.

Sharper Answers, Faster Pages, Tighter Privacy

The rest of the website release is reliability work. Key gig-pay and booking guides got clearer, better-answered FAQs so visitors and AI assistants get a straight answer fast. Image loading is faster across heroes and hubs, and data-heavy pages are snappier. A platform-wide security and privacy review tightened data-access controls and updated disclosures, and a legacy-redirect cleanup means old /guides URLs, /showcase-integrated and the 2024 hire guide now resolve cleanly to their current homes.

We Now Publish Release Notes

GigXchange now has a dedicated, public Release Notes page. It tracks every Mainstage and Website version — what shipped, what was fixed, what is coming next — updated as work lands, not once a month. These platform-update posts remain the narrative roundup; the Release Notes page is the running changelog, so you can always check the latest without waiting for a blog.

What’s Next

1. Android / Google Play launch — the native build is packaged and the account-deletion flow is in place; store submission is next.
2. EPK Builder v2 — mobile-optimised editing and full widget stability, plus richer public profiles with verified booking history and review scores.
3. Venue self-service — venue managers will be able to claim their listing on the Venue Directory and Open Mic Finder, verify ownership, and update details directly.
4. Data download (DSAR) — a self-serve tool to download a copy of your personal data, completing the GDPR set alongside account deletion.

If you missed what came before, read May 2026 or April 2026. The community feedback board inside the app feeds straight into this roadmap.

If you are an artist looking for gigs, a venue looking for talent, or a promoter running events, the platform is free and takes a few minutes to set up. See how booking works, then sign up at gigxchange.app and build your profile.

Annual refresh commitment

This guide was published on 6 June 2026 and is refreshed every June. Platform features and roadmap priorities evolve month to month, so annual verification matters. We re-verify every reference, recommendation, and data point once a year. Next scheduled refresh: June 2027. If any claim is outdated before then, email hello@gigxchange.app and we will update it within 24 hours.