Using Tourbound

Location and Artist/Venue are separate fields

Location takes a city however you write it (Denver, CO, Denver CO, denver colorado, or just Asheville), a ZIP code, or a nickname like NYC or Philly. Suggestions appear as you type, and Near me uses your phone or browser's location instead. When a name fits more than one place (Portland, OR or Portland, ME), the biggest wins and the others appear above the results as “Did you mean”. Listings cover the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. Artist or venue takes a name. Fill in both and your radius applies to that artist/venue search too — so Phish near a ZIP only shows nearby Phish shows. Leave Location blank and search just an artist or venue name, and it searches everywhere we list shows instead, since there's no location to measure distance from (the radius slider greys out and reads Everywhere until you add one).

A name search matches any artist, venue or festival containing what you typed, so Phish also finds tribute bands. When the name you typed is also an artist on the results, a Just Phish button above them narrows to that exact artist (openers and festival bills included). Put the name in quotes, “Phish”, to search that way from the start; Only Phish ✕ widens it again.

Jump from one show to more

Artist and venue names are clickable everywhere on the site. Clicking an artist opens their artist page: every upcoming date (not the tribute bands with a similar name), a Follow button, and, for a band with nothing booked, a note that you'll hear when they announce. Clicking a venue shows everything coming up at that room, without retyping.

Narrowing results

• Advanced filters limit results by date, genre, event type, and how recently a show was announced.
• Free shows only (in Advanced Search) keeps just the shows listed as free to attend. It relies on what the listing says, so a free show that isn't labelled as free won't appear.
• Only artists I follow (in Advanced Search, signed in) keeps just the shows where an artist you follow is on the bill. Leave the location empty to see every upcoming date for all of them, or add a location to see who's coming near you.
• Date presets cover tonight, tomorrow, and this or next weekend — or pick a custom range with Choose Dates: type the two dates, or click a start and an end day on the calendar underneath (leave the end blank for “from this date on”).
• Radius is a slider that clicks between set distances: 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500 miles, then Unlimited (2, 5, 10, 25 km and so on up to 1000 km where kilometers are used). If a search feels empty, widening this is usually the fastest fix.
• Once you've run a search, a refine bar on the results page lets you adjust Location, Artist/Venue, Radius, and the Advanced filters without scrolling back up.
• Big searches list the first 100 shows by date, with Show more at the bottom for the next batch. At most 2,000 shows come back at once; if you hit that, narrow the dates or the radius.
• List or Map: switch the results to a map with the toggle above them. Each pin is a venue; tap it to see its shows. If the map isn't available at the moment, you'll get the list instead.
• Cancelled shows are left out of results. Postponed and rescheduled shows stay in with a label, and a rescheduled show also says which date it moved from.

Following artists

Sign in (with Google, or with a link we email you) and you can follow any act from its show card. On a festival or co-bill, the Follow ▾ button opens the full lineup so you can follow individual artists rather than the whole bill. My Artists lists everyone you follow, including bands with no dates right now, each with their next show, plus their combined upcoming schedule, sortable by date, artist, or location/venue. Following a band between tours means you'll hear the moment they announce something.

• Add an artist finds any band, playing shows or not: names with upcoming dates come from our listings, and everyone else from MusicBrainz, the open music encyclopedia.
• Import from Spotify: on spotify.com, go to Account, then Privacy settings, and under Download your data request Account data. Spotify emails a ZIP, usually within a few days. Choose it on My Artists and you'll get a checklist of the artists you follow and play most, with the ones playing shows marked. The file is read on your device; only the artists you tick are sent to us.
• Paste a list takes names one per line (or separated by commas), so you can copy your artists from Bandsintown, JamBase or anywhere else.

RSVPing to a show

Hit RSVP? on any show card to mark yourself as going — it changes to I'm Going! once you have. My Shows lists everything you've RSVP'd to, split into upcoming and a collapsible past section, on the same cards as search results. Pressing I'm Going! there takes the show off your list. A show stays under upcoming through its last day.

When people you follow have RSVP'd to a show, its card says so (“@sam and @jo are going”), with links to their profiles.

Building a tour

A tour is a run of shows you build one stop at a time, starting from a show you're going to. Open any show and hit Start a tour from this show — that becomes stop one. From the tour page, Add the next stop searches for shows a day or two later that are within your drive limit of where you just were, so the run always chains forward. Adding a stop RSVPs you to it automatically. Tours get a name to start with; change it with Edit tour name under the title.

Drive times and miles between stops come from Google's driving route between the venues. They don't count traffic, so leave yourself some slack. If there's no route for a leg, it falls back to a straight-line estimate scaled for road travel at roughly 60 mph, and the note says “about.” Either way the math assumes a three-hour show before you can leave. Show route map on the tour page draws the stops in order along the driving route (a dashed straight line stands in for any leg without one). Your tours live on My Shows, and each one has its own shareable link so you can send a run to friends or post it. You choose whether a tour is public, and whether your tours show on your profile, in Preferences.

Sharing a show, tour, or profile

Show pages, public tours, and profiles all have a Share row. On a phone, the Share button opens your usual share sheet, so you can send it to Instagram, TikTok, Messages, or anywhere else you've got installed. Everywhere else you get Copy link, Post to Bluesky, and Share to Facebook. On a phone, Post to Bluesky opens a ready-to-send post in the Bluesky app (or bsky.app if the app isn't installed), and Share to Facebook opens the share sheet so you can pick the Facebook app.

Shared links unfurl with a generated image showing the artist, dates, and stops, so a tour posted to Bluesky or Facebook shows the actual run, not a generic logo.

Private tours only get Copy link, and that link only works for you and the people you've shared the tour with. If anyone else pastes it somewhere, the preview shows nothing but “A private tour”: no title, no stops.

Going on someone else's tour

When someone sends you a tour, or you open one you like, hit Go on Tour! at the top. You join the tour and get RSVP'd to all of its upcoming shows, and stops added later are RSVP'd for you too. Leave tour takes the tour's RSVPs back off your list; shows you RSVP'd to yourself stay put.

Group chat for a tour

The tour owner and editors can paste a group chat invite link (WhatsApp, Signal, Discord, GroupMe, Telegram) with Add a group chat link on the tour page. Everyone on the tour gets an Open the group chat button. Only people on the tour see it: the owner, collaborators, and anyone who hit Go on Tour!. Visitors to a public tour never do, because anyone holding an invite link can join the chat. The conversation itself happens in the chat app, not on Tourbound.

Sending a show or tour to a friend

Show pages and tour pages have a Send to a friend box. Type an @username (people you follow or who follow you come up first), pick as many people as you like, add a short note if you want (up to 280 characters), and hit Send. It lands in their inbox. You can't send to yourself, and a username that doesn't exist is flagged before anything is sent. To keep things friendly, each account can send up to 10 a minute and 50 a day.

Anyone signed in can send a public tour. A private tour can only be sent by its owner and editors, and you choose Can view or Can edit: sending it gives that person access right away, no link needed. Viewers can look; editors can add and remove stops and rename the tour. The tour's owner sees everyone with access on the tour page and can remove anyone. The older invite links still work, under Other ways to share on the tour page.

Your inbox

Once you're signed in, the bell at the top of every page opens your inbox, with a count of anything unread. You'll hear about:

• shows and tours friends send you, and private tours they give you access to
• new shows from artists you follow, as soon as the daily listings update picks them up. When a band announces several dates at once you get one entry (“Phish announced 6 new shows”) that opens their artist page; past 20 entries in a day the rest roll up into one “and N more”. By default only shows in your own country; in Preferences you can switch that to shows within a distance of your default location, or anywhere
• a show you RSVP'd to being cancelled, postponed, moved to another date, or removed
• someone following you

Opening an entry marks it read, and Mark all read clears the lot. Read entries are deleted after 90 days, unread ones after 180. Each kind can be switched off in Preferences.

Muting or blocking someone

On anyone's profile, Mute stops their follows and anything they send you from showing up in your inbox; they can still follow you and send things, you just won't hear about it. Block goes further: they can't follow you or send you anything, and any follows between the two of you are removed. Either way they aren't told. Undo it from their profile or from the list in Preferences.

Your home feed

Signed in, the home page shows Marquee headlines from people you follow under the search box: shows they RSVP to (several friends going to the same show are rolled into one), public tours they start or add to, and artists they follow, from the last 30 days. It runs as a venue-style marquee: hover over it (or use the Pause button) to stop it, and click an update to open that show or tour. If your device is set to reduce motion, it stays still and you scroll it sideways instead. It never shows who they follow, and people you've muted or blocked don't appear. To keep your own RSVPs out of your followers' feeds, use Your RSVPs in friends' feeds in Preferences.

Everyone starts out following @tourbound, the site's own account, which posts announcements about new features and changes into your feed. Unfollow or mute it from its profile if you'd rather not see them; it won't be re-added.

Browsing every artist

Artists in the menu lists every act with an upcoming show, A to Z (“The” is skipped, so The String Cheese Incident is under S) or by number of shows. Type to filter or jump to a letter, tap a name to see their shows, or hit Follow.

Your username and profile

The first time you sign in, you'll pick a username. It's permanent — there is no rename — so choose one you'll still like later. A few names are reserved (staff-sounding ones like admin or support, and anything with tourbound in it). It gives you a profile page listing the artists you follow and the upcoming shows you've RSVP'd to, which anyone signed in to Tourbound can view. People who aren't signed in are asked to sign in first. Sorting that list by Location/Venue orders it by distance from your default location, if you've set one in Preferences. The follower and following counts at the top open the full lists, with Follow buttons.

Preferences

Preferences holds your default location (used to sort your profile's shows by distance from home), default search radius, default genres, miles, kilometers or automatic (the US and UK use miles, everywhere else kilometers), the theme (Poster, Night, or Clean), and which kinds of notification reach your inbox. Changes take effect when you press Save; if you try to leave with unsaved changes, the page asks whether to save them first.

Put Tourbound on your home screen

Tourbound can live on your phone like an app: its own icon, full screen, no browser bars. There's nothing to download from an app store.

• iPhone or iPad: open tourbound.app in Safari, tap the Share button (the square with an arrow pointing up), scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.
• Android: in Chrome, tap Get the app in the Tourbound menu, or open Chrome's ⋮ menu and tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
• Computer: in Chrome or Edge, click the install icon at the right end of the address bar.

You stay signed in, and everything works the same as on the website. If you open it with no connection, it says so instead of showing an error.

Deleting your account

At the bottom of Preferences, Delete my account (you type DELETE to confirm) removes your profile, follows, RSVPs, tours and settings from Tourbound right away. Tours you own disappear for anyone you shared them with. Nothing is lost for 90 days: we keep a private copy, and if you sign in again within 90 days you'll be offered Restore my account, which brings everything back as it was. Your username is held for you meanwhile. After 90 days the copy is erased for good and a new sign-in starts a fresh account. Notifications you sent to other people don't come back with a restore.

Tickets

Get Tickets (on a show's page, Tickets on plus the seller's name, with any other sellers listed under More tickets) hands you off to whoever is actually selling them. Tourbound doesn't process orders or handle refunds — for anything about a purchase, contact the seller or the venue directly.

Troubleshooting

No results came back

• Widen the radius, or clear the date and genre filters.
• Check the format — a location search needs a ZIP or a comma, as in Asheville, NC. Without the comma it's treated as an artist or venue name.
• Try the artist's full name as it's billed, without extras like “and friends”.

A show is missing, or the details are wrong

Listings come from JamBase, so gaps and errors usually start upstream. Tell us anyway using the form below — pick Wrong or missing show info and include the artist, venue, and date. Always confirm with the venue before making plans around a listing.

Sign-in trouble

You can sign in with Google, or type your email address on the sign-in page and we'll email you a link. The link works once and expires after 15 minutes; if it says it expired, just ask for a new one, and check your spam folder if it doesn't arrive. The same email address always opens the same Tourbound account, whichever way you sign in. If sign-in fails, try signing out fully and back in. If you're stuck on choosing a username, note that usernames are unique — someone may already have the one you want.

Send feedback

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