I started 'live tour dates' some years ago after having missed some gigs I really would have wanted to see. I only found out a day after - and asked myself, why there is not a list of all the live appearances of all my favourite bands that would remind me of all those precious tour dates.

Since there was not such a list available at that time I took some time 'after work' and tinkered my first tour dates database over at my 'homepage' tillintallin.net.

Pretty soon that database had to be redesigned - so I reserved this domain name 'livetourdates.org', upgraded the previous first version of the database, glued together some rough first webdesign and finally in January 2005 everything moved to its own webspace with its very own dedicated mySQL database.

In June 2007 I launched the first real redesign. Actually I would prefer to call it a rebrush - since it still used the same structure, the same database and everything else that was already there - I just moved everything to a more 'sophisticated' layout - the engine and the database behind it was still the same.

In August 2008 i finally redesigned also the engine of the tour dates database. I finally gave up my previous D.I.Y.-structure and instead moved everything to drupal - which brought greater changes and cost more time than I first expected. I had to delay the moving process - for over three months the news archive was inclomplete, the venue-pages are still not complete due to the shear amount of pages, infos, links that want to be moved to the new system.. - ..but finally in November 2008 I saw some light at the end of the 'moving tunnel'..:]

Ah yes - maybe some more technical details for those who are into that dry stuff: some words about the structure and the engine and the database behind it: livetourdate.org runs on a combination of drupal and a bunch of handcrafted scripts..:]

And now just some words about my future plans: this website should sooner or later grow into an open platform mostly for bands, booking agencies and small record labels.. If you're interested in taking part in developping testing please let me know..

Ah - maybe one more thing: on the one hand livetourdates.org is partly an 'after work project' - on the other hand I use this project/domain to try out 'real things'.. - ..so please don't be bugged if there's still some bugs in the system..:]

greetz, t..