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It’s Time to Take Back Music

We’re creating a global interactive music community for fans who want to share concert reviews, cell phone footage, and photos from around the world. We’re bored with corporate music and media PR hype telling us what to like. We’re fanatical about the music we love, and we want you to help us build a new live music platform to discover great music from every corner of the earth.

Welcome to Gig Ape – it’s a jungle out there but music is what keeps it swinging.

Sign up for a User Account

Discover a fresh way to find new music and make friends. You can help make Gig Ape into a global community for fans that love everything about music and live performances in any genre, any language, anywhere in the world.

Your User Account lets you:

Find new music to share with your friends
Upload photos, video, and audio about the bands you love
Access your account from your cell phone
See what others are uploading in real-time with the Gig Ape Global Interactive Music Map
Chat with a live steam of people with your same interest in music using Live Global Music Chat
This account is free – for life!

Become a Gig Ape Contributor

You’re probably overly opinionated and with too much time on your hands – welcome on board!

If you’re passionate about music, and think you’ve got what it takes to write a cracking review, record an interview, or create a photo essay why haven’t you signed up for our Contributor Account? There’s nothing stopping you from becoming the official gig-aper for your area.

Here’s what you get:

We will feature your posts on the front page
Get photo or review passes to concerts and gigs
Potential to monetize your content
Share your articles in real-time with your friends and the Gig Ape community
Access to the Gig Ape image and audio library to use in your posts
Increase in the daily upload limits for text, audio and video
Feel free to experiment – our contributors create from the heart and shoot from the hip

All you have to do is:

Post at least one article per week
Take on an occasional exclusive assignment from Team Gig Ape
Create great articles about the music you love
Think visually about how your work will look on the site
Be a representative of Gig Ape
Be a pillar of the community by responding to questions and comments on your articles

Get an Industry Account

Are you a band, record label, promoter, or music venue? Then get our free Industry Account. Our community members thrives on timely information and actively follow the news feeds of all the Industry Accounts. So your information could be reposted in real-time into the news feeds of every interested user and contributor. We’re an opinionated bunch in Gig Ape, so don’t be surprised if your promo material is circulated around the community or reviewed and rated.

What you get:

Free homepage with an elegant design and simple to use interface
Ability to communicate with the community and send updates
Capacity to showcase posts, articles and material generated by our community
Automatic entry into our Global Industry Directory.
Access to the Gig Ape image and audio library to use in your posts
Increase in the daily upload limit for text, audio and video
Upload your songs and videos and sell them through our storefront

Industry Directory

This is a searchable global database of musicians, bands, performers, venues, record labels, and everything to do with the music industry. And it’s free. But if you want to stand out from the crowd then sign-up for our enhanced listing.

You get:

An enhanced high-quality graphic
Top page billing
Your business location plotted on a global map
And all it costs is $100 per year.

Gig Ape Global Interactive Music Map

Ever wondered what everyone else in the world is doing right now? This is a Global Interactive Music Map populated with geo-tagged posts uploaded by the community. The map is updated in real time, and you can search for stuff in your country, your city, or what your friends have uploaded. Especially good if you’ve made some friends at a gig during the weekend and what to hook up and talk about it.

Live Global Music Chat

Fancy something a bit different? You can enter the Live Global Music Chat Room, select a few preferences about what you want to talk about, and speak to a Gig Ape community member from anywhere in the world. And it’s free – no time limits, no barriers – just pure music conversation.

Showcase

If you want to profile your photos, videos, or articles then this is the place to do it. You will have unlimited space to display your work in a gallery, whether it’s high definition video or HDR photos.

You will get:

Free enhanced listing in the Industry Directory
Ability to upload content in high definition
Create galleries to display your content
Showcase your work to the community
Only costs $20 per year

Shop

Get all the official Gig Ape Merchandise here, from t-shits to hats. If you’ve got a cracking design, send it our way, and we’ll try and get it in the store for you.

Help Develop the Community

You are the life and soul of Gig Ape. It is nothing without your views, opinions, and suggestions. If you’ve got some ideas about how the site should develop then please send them our way – we’re all ears. We want Gig Ape to be your new home from home.

Being Part of Gig Ape Means Everyone’s got Two Hands, Two Feet and a Tail – We’re all Equal

Congratulations! If you’ve made it this far then you must be really interested. Why? because you know music needs a fun-lovin’ primate. Come on in and hang with the Ape.