Every other board gives you a role and a town, then leaves you to DM a stranger to find out
what saying yes actually costs. These ads lead with it — the fee, how often you rehearse,
how often you gig — and there is a real profile behind every one, with tracks you can play
and reviews you can read before you give up an evening.
Filling a gap in a band is slow because the listings are thin. A typical UK musician wanted ad
gives you an instrument, a town and a phone number. It does not tell you whether the gig pays,
whether the band rehearses weekly or twice a year, how many shows they play, or who is already
in the room. So you spend a fortnight of messages discovering the things that decide it —
and it is just as blind in reverse for a player advertising themselves.
GigXchange Classifieds is built the other way round. Ads are structured, so the expectations sit
on the card: Wanted ads state the pay, whether the set is covers or originals,
the rehearsal cadence and the commitment; Available ads state what the player
plays, how long they have been gigging, the gear they bring and the dates they are free. And
because posting needs a free account, every ad sits on a real profile — photos, tracks,
genres, reviews and an availability calendar. That is the anonymous-poster trust problem
classifieds sites structurally cannot fix.
Live Classifieds
3 bands looking for someone ·
3 players available ·
across 5 UK towns
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Every ad is posted by a real, active member — newest first. Click any card to read the
full ad, see what it pays and check the poster's profile before you reply.
Every live ad on the UK map, at the town the poster advertised. Switch the layer between
Wanted and Available to see which scenes are short of players and which are full of them.
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Scroll to zoom (hold Ctrl / two fingers)· tap a layer to switch · click a pin for details, a cluster for its area.
Musician Classifieds FAQs
Finding and advertising for musicians in the UK — answered with live board data.
Yes — posting and answering are both free, with no listing fee and no commission on anything that comes of it. You need a free GigXchange artist account, which is the point: it is what keeps every ad attached to a real profile instead of an anonymous email address. Create an account or read what artists get.
No. This board is open to everyone — all 6 live ads are readable without signing in, and so is every ad's own page. An account is only needed to reply or to post, because replies happen in GigXchange chat where both people can see who they are talking to.
A Wanted ad is a band or artist with an opening to fill — there are 3 live right now. An Available ad is a player advertising themselves for deps, projects or a permanent spot — 3 live. The board carries both so you can search from either side, and the map above has a layer for each.
More than any other UK board. A Wanted ad states the pay (or an honest "unpaid"), whether the set is covers or originals, the rehearsal cadence and the commitment — band member, dep, project or collaboration. An Available ad states what the player plays and at what level, the year they started gigging, the gear they bring (PA, lights, transport) and the dates they are free. That is deliberately the list of things you would otherwise have to spend a fortnight of messages discovering.
Every ad is posted from a real GigXchange profile, and the card links straight to it. Before you reply you can hear their tracks, read reviews left by venues and other artists, see whether they carry a Verified badge and check their availability calendar. Ads are artist-only and capped at three live per member, so nobody can carpet the board. Browse the profiles.
Ads that offer a fee say so, and many name the figure. For the market picture behind it, the GX Index publishes real reported UK gig fees by gig type and region, with lower/typical/higher bands, and the methodology is published in full. Use it to judge whether an offer is fair before you accept it.
Right now the board covers 4 different roles across 5 UK towns, and the most-advertised role is Drummer, with Manchester carrying the most ads. The map above shows where the openings are — switch between the Wanted and Available layers to see which scenes are short of players and which are full of them.
Ads run for 60 days and can be renewed in one tap. A dep ad for a specific gig comes down the day after that gig, and an availability ad comes down at the end of the window the player advertised — so the board never silently fills with dead listings the way scraped directories do.
A group post scrolls away in a day and tells you nothing about who wrote it. A classifieds site has the structure but no identity behind the ad — which is the trust problem those sites structurally cannot fix. Here the ad is structured and the poster is a real, reviewable profile, and if the conversation turns into an actual booking it can carry on into a written agreement and protected payment without leaving the platform.
Replies happen in GigXchange chat, so posters can see who you are and you can see their gig history first. A free artist account covers both — and brings a public profile, an availability calendar and protected bookings with it.
