Why did you start the site?
I started the site as a tool to find a new band to fanboy over, Bloc Party had just gone on hiatus and I wanted a band simply to love as much as them. I started out local and ended up globally reviewing and listening to bands. No other reason than that, simply that my favourite band was not around and I was yearning for another.
The figures you sent me are astounding - when did you notice the numbers of visitors start to rise?
It was all after I started doing free entry gigs in Cambridge, 4 bands a night bi monthly for a year, a total of 16 bands played my shows which helped grow my presence locally as a reliable 'promoter' and online magazine. It spiked hugely when I trolled facebook on April Fools day in 2011, since then it's been steadily rising, much like a snowball does when you roll it along the ground
Since the site began, what has been a personal highlight?
Glastonbury - I never would've thought that my personal music blog would get me to Glastonbury, and within 2 years. It was late 2012 when I got the offer to join the Emerging Talents Competition to judge over 200 Indie and Alternative band for their competition, I've done it the following 2 years and simply fell in love with the whole festival.
Where do you hope to take It's All Indie in the coming years?
We're pushing for new writers and photographers all around the world, I'm aiming for 'editors' and 'writers' in Austrailia/New Zealand and the USA/Canada so we can be a 24hour rolling music news website, even NME and Pitchfork are not. If that doesn't ever come about, a festival stage would be my ambition, booking who I want to play my stage. I'd have such a buzz!
I started the site as a tool to find a new band to fanboy over, Bloc Party had just gone on hiatus and I wanted a band simply to love as much as them. I started out local and ended up globally reviewing and listening to bands. No other reason than that, simply that my favourite band was not around and I was yearning for another.
The figures you sent me are astounding - when did you notice the numbers of visitors start to rise?
It was all after I started doing free entry gigs in Cambridge, 4 bands a night bi monthly for a year, a total of 16 bands played my shows which helped grow my presence locally as a reliable 'promoter' and online magazine. It spiked hugely when I trolled facebook on April Fools day in 2011, since then it's been steadily rising, much like a snowball does when you roll it along the ground
Since the site began, what has been a personal highlight?
Glastonbury - I never would've thought that my personal music blog would get me to Glastonbury, and within 2 years. It was late 2012 when I got the offer to join the Emerging Talents Competition to judge over 200 Indie and Alternative band for their competition, I've done it the following 2 years and simply fell in love with the whole festival.
Where do you hope to take It's All Indie in the coming years?
We're pushing for new writers and photographers all around the world, I'm aiming for 'editors' and 'writers' in Austrailia/New Zealand and the USA/Canada so we can be a 24hour rolling music news website, even NME and Pitchfork are not. If that doesn't ever come about, a festival stage would be my ambition, booking who I want to play my stage. I'd have such a buzz!