“Until Wednesday, we are providing a form to be filled out by organizers who wish to be listed in our calendar,” explains this musician and Web developer. The next day, a publication is posted on the social network Instagram and the site, displaying the different evenings, the location and the time.
Between 20 and 30 events on average are recorded, all musical styles combined. This 37-year-old rock lover tries to “highlight live performances in particular, in order to promote local artists”.
Pool of artists
This system, quite widespread in large cities with sites like Le Bonbon, present in particular in Bordeaux, or Clutch in Toulouse, has “totally its place” in the Basque Country. For him: “Here, there is always a bit of the cliché of the seasonal place where nothing more happens after mid-September, when that is totally false. »
Julie Simaer, 26, also decided to embark on the adventure. Passionate about electronic music, she left Bordeaux four years ago to settle in the region, with the fear “that it would die in winter”. Finally, she “realized that there is a real pool of artists”.
Thanks to word of mouth and visibility on social networks, Goazen info is gradually making a name for itself. Recently, the number of subscribers exceeded the 2,000 mark on Instagram.
To continue this momentum, several other projects are being considered, such as the organization of their own evenings or the creation of a system for connecting individuals looking for outing partners.