The live bill · concerts, festivals, theatre & comedy
Name the act.
We’ll find the night.
One search box over Ticketmaster’s live Discovery wire. Type an artist, a venue or a city and get the real upcoming dates — with the real ticket link, the real venue and the real price where the wire gives one. Nothing on this page is mock data. For the whole bill at once, laid out by month, city and genre, that is concerts.llc.
The previous edition of this site is kept at classic.html. That page reads from a stored snapshot rather than the live wire, so its dates go stale; it is here because it holds work — the curated collections, the submit form, the continent pills — not yet carried across.
There is no mock data anywhere on this page. What the wire answers is what the bill shows, a show that will not answer is reported as exactly that, and your saved shows and your API key live in this browser and nowhere else.
—real shows
—cities
—venues
—this month
The bill
Filter it. Then go.
One console, five readings of the same live data: the bill as cards, as a calendar, as a table of venues, as a drawn map, and as the shortlist you have saved. The filters apply to all of them.
The bill
A bill, not a brochure.
Press Sync the wire — or just wait a beat; the first read starts itself — and the page asks Ticketmaster’s Discovery API for every upcoming music, theatre and comedy listing it will give, in the region the selector names. What comes back is the bill: real shows, real venues, real dates, real ticket links.
- The bill — every show as a card, filtered and sorted your way.
- The calendar — the same shows, grouped by date.
- The venues — the rooms, ranked by how much is on in them.
- The map — every venue with coordinates, drawn in a canvas by this page’s own hand.
- Saved — the shows you heart, kept in this browser.
The wire is rate-limited on free keys, so the page reads it when asked rather than on a timer — the sync button and the country selector are the two things that spend requests.
Tap a dot to read what’s on in that room.
Nothing on the bill matches that.
Loosen a filter, clear the search, or sync the wire again for a fresh read.
Collections
Four cuts of the same bill.
Curated from the live data, not from a list somebody typed: each collection is a rule run over whatever the wire answered, so it is different every time the bill is. Opening one filters the bill above.
The key
Your key, your browser.
The page ships with a working Discovery API key, so the bill reads out of the box. Free keys share a rate limit; if the wire starts refusing, a key of your own from developer.ticketmaster.com takes thirty seconds and is stored only in this browser’s localStorage — it is never sent anywhere except to Ticketmaster.
Ticketmaster key
About
A bill, honestly read.
The concert.llc discovery engine, brought home to labs.llc and rebuilt on the paper system in both editions. The events are Ticketmaster’s Discovery API data, read live from this browser and labelled with their source; the map is drawn in a canvas by the page itself, no map library; the calendar files are written by hand as .ics. Free keys carry Ticketmaster’s rate limits, and attribution belongs to them. No accounts, no tracking — a well-made window onto what’s on.