fest.one Concert and festival listings, back online
Concert is a listing of concerts and festivals in Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil. Ninety of its pages have been rebuilt from the Internet Archive and are served again here, inside Fest. Not reviews, not news: dates, rooms, prices, and where to buy.
At a glance
- What this is
- A listing, city by city
- First date listed
- 2 October 2015
- Last date listed
- 16 March 2017
- Pages online
- 90
- Its role
- The root of the network
What this is
The listings site everything else grew out of
This was the first of them, and it is the one that carries the index. When a single event turned out to deserve more than a section — a festival, a tour, one night in one hall — it was moved out onto a site of its own. Sensation left this way; so did Maxidrom, Placebo and Fest. What stays here is the listing itself: the long, patient record of everything that was on sale.
The front page carries the only disclaimer it needs — that the information may change — and then gets on with the job. Four cities across the top: Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil. Underneath, whatever was next.
What is in it
Sixteen months of concert dates, city by city
A sample of the run. Every line below comes from a page you can open here, with the date and the room as that page records them.
Two entries worth reading twice
Tiësto changes city, Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii say goodbye
Most lines in a listing are administrative. Two on the front page are not.
The first: Tiësto, the site reports, had changed his mind about Petersburg and decided to play Yekaterinburg on 9 December instead. Tickets were already on sale. A listings site is where that kind of thing shows up first, because the date has to be corrected before anyone writes about it.
The second: Sergey Bobunets announced that Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii were breaking up, and the last Moscow show would be at Crocus City Hall on 19 December 2016. The listing records it in one sentence and moves on to the next date, which is exactly what a listing does.
Where to start
Ninety concert pages, open again
Their text came back out of the Wayback Machine as it was found and stays in Russian, the language it was written in; each page has a new layout and an English summary. Some images did not survive, and a link to a page the archive lost is left as plain text.
The rest of the network
The sites that left this one
Each of these began as a section here and was given an address of its own. All of them are back online, and the listing itself now lives inside Fest, the festival portal they were building towards.
Archive. Every page here was restored from snapshots taken between February 2016 and February 2017. The wording is the original site's, in Russian; the layout is new, each page has an English title and summary, and the owner's contact details, the tracking code and the ticket-sale widgets were left out. Nothing on this page is stated that those pages do not say. The events themselves have taken place and ticket sales are closed.