Free tools for UK live music

Every figure comes from real UK data — public pricing signals, completed platform bookings, performer rate cards, Musicians’ Union recommended-rate baselines and anonymous user submissions. Each cell only publishes once it has enough weighted observations to be reliable. The status line below your result tells you which cell is answering.

Yes, completely free. No signup, no paywall. Share the link, use the data, compare it to your own quote. The full GigXchange Index is open.

Yes — every submission strengthens the Index for the next artist. Submissions are anonymous and go through a plausibility check before joining the dataset. Tap Submit your rate above the share bar or visit the GX Index submission form.

Each city-level cell needs a minimum number of observations before it publishes, so the data stays honest. When your city cell is thin, the calculator falls back to the UK-wide aggregate for that band size and event type — and tells you so in the result.

Cell percentiles are recomputed nightly. External sources are re-scanned weekly, with an observation-count mechanism tracking re-sightings so stable long-held rates carry proportional weight without inflating the dataset.

No. The full Index is public, free, and open. Our business is the GigXchange marketplace — the Index exists because the UK live music scene deserves an honest reference point, not a paywalled one.

UK booking agencies add a commission on top of the artist fee. The percentiles you see here reflect the artist-fee market — what the act actually takes home. If you’re quoting via an agency, expect a higher client-facing price.

Any UK function band with three or four performers — e.g. guitar, bass, drums plus a vocalist, or a drummer with two instrumentalists and a singer. This is the most densely covered cell in the Index because it maps to the most common wedding / private-party configuration.