Gigwise

Gigwise was a British music webzine founded in Liverpool in 2001. The site subsequently moved its headquarters to London, while its scope grew from providing gig listings to publishing music news, album reviews, artist interviews, and live music coverage. During its existence, Gigwise's content was reprinted by mainstream news and entertainment outlets including BBC News, the Guardian and Rolling Stone.

Gigwise

Type of site	Music webzine
Available in	English
Owner	Giant Digital
Created by	Simon Perlaki and Andy D Day
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	2001
Current status	Closed in 2024; domain subsequently taken over by AI-driven outfit, who use it as a celebrity-oriented site.

Gigwise closed in 2024. The domain was subsequently taken over by an AI-driven outfit, who publish a celebrity-oriented site using the Gigwise name.

History

Gigwise was launched in 2001 in Liverpool, before moving its offices to East London. Originally a gig listings page,^[1] the site evolved into a music news site including album reviews, artist interviews and live music coverage in its content.^[2][3] As of October 2010, Gigwise was one of the UK's 20 most-visited music news websites, attracting more readers than NME.com and BBC Music.^[1][4]

In 2011, Gigwise had its own arena at the Get Loaded in the Park festival in London,^[5] and hosted the "best song" award at the BT Digital Music Awards.^[6] The following year, Gigwise became one of two online media partners for the Strummer of Love festival held in Somerset in aid of the late Joe Strummer, with the proceeds going to the Strummerville charity.^[7] Gigwise was nominated in the "Best Music Media Brand" category at the 2013 Music Week awards.^[8]

The first ever print edition of Gigwise was published in July 2021, in celebration of the site's 20th anniversary.^[9] Activity on Gigwise's X and Facebook pages ceased in 2023;^[10][11] by May 2024, the site had been taken offline.

During its existence, Gigwise's content was reprinted by mainstream news and entertainment outlets including BBC News,^[12] the Guardian,^[13] Rolling Stone,^[14] Billboard^[15] and the NME.^[16] Former site editors include Holly Frith,^[17] Michael Baggs,^[18] Andy Morris,^[19] Andrew Trendell^[2] and Cai Trefor.^[20]