Last updated: May 2026
Your gig diary is yours — every artist, venue, date, and review is logged by you. To make logging fast and the app feel rich, Banded combines what you write with metadata pulled from a small set of music, event, and ticketing sources. This page describes where each piece of information comes from and the terms we operate under.
For details on how your personal data is handled, see our Privacy Policy. If you spot data that looks wrong, email support@banded.uk and we'll get it corrected.
Artist names, MusicBrainz IDs, formation year, country of origin, disambiguation strings, and genre tags. MusicBrainz is a community-maintained open music encyclopedia. We use it as the canonical identifier for artists across our other data sources.
musicbrainz.org · Data licence
Artist hero images, editorial biographies, top songs, and 30-second song previews. Used for the artist profile screens and to enrich your gig feed. We send the artist name as a search query; we do not share your account information with Apple Music.
Upcoming events — artist, venue, date, on-sale dates, ticket purchase URLs, and event images — plus venue addresses and coordinates. Ticketmaster is the primary source of upcoming gigs in the Discover tab and for wishlist alerts. Tapping a ticket link opens the Ticketmaster site or app; we do not see or process the transaction.
Independent venues, club nights on DICE-only or Resident Advisor, and many small-promoter events are not in this dataset, so they may not appear automatically — you can still log them manually.
Recent setlists for an artist, displayed on the artist page so you can see what they've been playing live. Setlists on Setlist.fm are user-contributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; where we display them in Banded we credit Setlist.fm.
If neither Apple Music nor Ticketmaster has a usable image for an artist, Banded falls back to these sources in order. Each fallback resolves once and is cached.
User-contributed artist artwork, looked up via the artist's MusicBrainz ID. Fanart.tv data is freely available for non-commercial use under their developer terms.
Final fallback for artist images. We resolve the artist's Wikidata entity from MusicBrainz, then fetch the associated Commons image. Individual files carry their own licence (mostly CC-BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 or CC0); attribution flows back to the source page on Wikimedia Commons where required.
commons.wikimedia.org · wikidata.org
When you import gigs from screenshots or screen recordings of ticket apps (DICE, Resident Advisor, etc.), Apple's on-device Vision framework reads the text from those images on your iPhone. Only that extracted text is then sent to Anthropic's Claude API, which parses it into structured gig details (artist, venue, date, support acts) for a private draft you review and publish. The original screenshots and screen recordings never leave your device. Anthropic does not use our API requests to train its models, in line with their commercial terms.
anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms
Stores your account, gig logs, profile images (avatar and banner), and social graph. EU/US infrastructure with row-level security policies enforcing per-user access. Privacy
Aggregate usage metrics so we can see which features people actually use. No gig content or messages are sent. Privacy
Stack traces and crash diagnostics when the app fails so we can ship fixes. Privacy
Coordinates the entitlement state for Banded Pro and Backstage. Apple StoreKit handles all payment information; RevenueCat receives only what's needed to validate your subscription. Privacy
A privacy-respecting CAPTCHA on Banded's email/password auth flows. Apple Sign-In bypasses it. Privacy
Delivers Banded's notifications to your iPhone.
Banded queries upstream sources sparingly. When we resolve an artist or event, the result is cached in our own database (artist IDs, hero images, biographies, MusicBrainz disambiguation, etc.) so subsequent loads are fast and we don't hammer the upstream APIs. Cached records are refreshed periodically. Image URLs are resolved server-side and re-served from our backend so your device doesn't make direct requests to data providers.
None of these third-party services receive your account information. The only data we send is the search parameter required for the lookup — typically an artist name, a MusicBrainz ID, or a city/coordinates pair.
If artist info, an event listing, or a setlist looks wrong in Banded, the underlying data usually comes from one of the sources above. Some of these (notably MusicBrainz, Setlist.fm, and Wikidata) are user-edited — corrections submitted there will reach us on the next refresh.
Spotted something off? Email support@banded.uk with what you saw and we'll either fix it on our side or pass it back to the upstream source.