Actually works well to get the points across (on desktop, at least), and is interesting from an artistic perspective. I enjoy it as an interesting anecdote, but it does make for a comparatively miserable browsing experience!
Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
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#22many websites _should_ be this tbh. lmao
There used to be a nice file format for this called HTML...
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#23I love this band. But this is actually a terrible idea. Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one. Agents and venues looking for promo pictures. Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc., Artist websites have a variety of audiences. My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manag…
brutalism through free corporate spreadsheets
could you _get_ more indie than that?
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#24I love this band. But this is actually a terrible idea. Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one. Agents and venues looking for promo pictures. Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc., Artist websites have a variety of audiences. My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manag…
Most ways of putting up a conventional website don't make updates easy, unless you buy into some whole system, or pay someone. If Sheets is familiar and works, why not?
Arguably the fact that the website is more likely to be accurate and up to date this way makes it more user friendly.
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#25This looks so bad on mobile lol
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agents and venues can look at Instagram or other socials for promo pictures and styles etc.
Hmmmm ideally you want them to look for your best images not some random after show picture from a fan on social media. Websites make it easy for you to control your promo material ( EPK).
They have their own instagram account.
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#28I love this band. But this is actually a terrible idea. Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one. Agents and venues looking for promo pictures. Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc., Artist websites have a variety of audiences. My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manag…
Sadly these days social media fulfills that requirement.
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#29Haha that's funny. Surprisingly functional as well.
Website's definitely suffering in performance while having a grand total of .. 37 viewers.