An audience you own
No algorithm between you and your fans: they join from your GigXchange profile in one tap, you send one branded update, and it lands in every inbox — with your flyer attached.
The list that fills your next room
Sign up free, put the button on your profile, mention it from the stage.
Last updated: 7 July 2026
How it works
From empty list to fans-in-inboxes in four short steps.
Fans join from your profile
A Become-a-fan button on your public page takes a name and an email — no account needed. Say it from the stage; the list does the rest.
Bring your old list
Upload the CSV you've been carrying between tools for years. Duplicates are skipped automatically, and export is one click.
Write one update
Subject, message, attach the flyer or tour poster you already built — and check the live preview of exactly what fans will read.
Every inbox, one click
Broadcast to everyone or hand-pick recipients. Each email carries a one-click unsubscribe, so the list stays clean and compliant.
Everything in the list
Built for acts that would rather play the gig than fight a marketing suite.
Fans join from your profile
A Become-a-fan button sits on your public profile — name and email, one tap, no account needed. Every gig you play can feed the list.
Bring your existing list
Import your current mailing list by CSV — duplicates are skipped automatically — and export the whole list any time. It’s your audience, portable.
One update, every inbox
Write a subject and message, send to all fans or hand-pick recipients, and watch a live preview of exactly what lands in their inbox.
Your promo, attached
Drop your gig flyers, setlist posters and tour posters straight into the update — the tools you already made, doing the selling.
One broadcast a day
Sends are capped at one broadcast every 24 hours — your updates stay welcome, your address stays off spam lists.
One-click unsubscribe
Every email carries a personal one-click unsubscribe link, handled automatically — compliant without you thinking about it.
A list you can actually read
Search, sort by name, email, source or date joined, and see at a glance who came from your profile and who you imported.
Not just for artists
Venues announcing programmes, promoters pushing events, agents updating clients — the mailing list ships with every GigXchange role.
Why an email list still beats the algorithm
Social reach is rented; the inbox is yours. How working acts actually use a fan list.
Own the channel
Post a gig announcement to your socials and an algorithm decides which sliver of your followers ever sees it. Send the same announcement to your mailing list and it reaches every fan who asked to hear from you. That's the entire argument. A fan list is the one audience asset no platform change, ban or feed tweak can take away — which is why it's the first thing labels ask about and the last thing you should leave to chance.
The join moment is at the gig
Nobody hunts down a signup form at home. They join in the room, thirty seconds after the set, while they still feel it. That's why joining is one tap on your public profile — name, email, done, no account — the same link that's already on your merch table QR and in your bio. Mention it from the stage once a night and the list compounds gig by gig.
Send the poster, not just the news
An update that says "we have a gig" is information; an update with the flyer attached is promotion. The composer pulls straight from your GigXchange toolkit — flyers, setlist posters, tour posters — so the email that lands looks like the act sounds. Fans forward things that look good; that's your reach growing without a penny of ad spend.
Deliverability is a discipline
Mail providers score senders, and blast-happy senders lose. The one-broadcast-per-24-hours cap isn't a limitation, it's protection: your sends stay rare enough to open, and your address stays trusted. The one-click unsubscribe in every email does the same job — the people who leave quietly were never coming to the show, and their exit keeps your open rates honest and your list legally clean.
Close the loop
Every update links back to your GigXchange profile — where the tickets, the EPK and the booking button live. Fan reads the email, clicks through, buys the ticket or books the band for their wedding. List grows at the gig, gig comes from the list. For the wider audience-building playbook, see the event promotion guide.
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Live market percentiles for every band size, city and event type — built on the GigXchange Index. Updated nightly.
Tour Poster
Your gig list becomes a tour poster in 1 click — 4 styles, 3 formats, ticket QR codes and an animated video for socials.
Invoice Generator
VAT-ready invoices built from your gig bookings — auto-numbered, branded PDF, tracked from unpaid to paid.
Stage Plot
Drag-and-drop stage canvas, channel input list and monitor mixes — exported as an engineer-ready A4 PDF.
Flyer Builder
Striking gig flyers from 5 designed styles in 15 templates — prefilled from your booking, with a ticket QR and high-res PNG export.
Booking Manager
Your live availability embedded on your own website — visitors see free dates and book you direct. One snippet, zero upkeep.
EPK Builder
A press kit that updates itself — 18 drag-and-drop blocks, live players, verified reviews and availability at one link.
AI Matches
Pick a free date, set a 60-second brief, get ranked best-fit venues — and pitch them with real booking invites.
Post a Gig
List an open slot in two minutes and take applications from gig-ready artists — full profiles and verified reviews attached.
GX Gig Rescue
Act dropped out? Broadcast an urgent booking invite to up to 25 available acts — first to accept is booked.
Licensing Checker
Ten questions decode your venue’s music licensing — permission, copyright and cost, with official sources.
Compliance Checklist
Eight questions build your venue’s compliance board — law first, ten areas, every item linked to its official source.
Martyn's Law Readiness
The 2025 Act reaches every 200+ venue from ~2027 — six questions give your tier, your duties and a first-draft procedures PDF.
Events Poster
Your upcoming programme becomes a designed what’s-on poster in one click — ticket QRs, status badges, your branding.
Find an Artist
Pick the empty date, set a 60-second brief, and invite up to 5 ranked best-fit acts with real booking invites.
Booking Contract Generator
UK-compliant live music performance agreement. 8 clauses, deposits, dual e-signatures, instant PDF.
Setlist Builder
Drag-reorder songs, auto-calc set duration, design a poster-ready setlist in under a minute. Share by link or export PNG / PDF.
GX Index
The UK’s open, free rate dataset for live music. Search by city, genre and use case. Submit your own anonymous rates.
UK Musician Earnings 2026
Data-backed report on what UK musicians actually earn — the £8bn paradox, the income ladder, the 50% rule. Free, CC BY 4.0.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the usual queries.
Start the list at the next gig
Sign up free, put the join button on your profile, and mention it from the stage. The room does the rest.