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The GUS Band

A championship brass band founded in 1933, with a full concert diary and a committee of volunteers who run it all around their day jobs.

  • Box office Tickets to be sold on its own site
  • Players On Bandroom, launching soon
  • Admin The committee will update it themselves
  • Updated
The whole of the new GUS Band home page: “World class brass” over a dark red photograph of the band, the next performance, concerts, listening and news
The same home page on a phone

The new site is still in build. Pictured from the latest build on 21 October 2026

Before and after

The GUS Band site as it was before, on WordPress
BeforeWordPress, tickets sold elsewhere
The new GUS Band site: “World class brass” over a dark red photograph of the band, with the next performance and tickets
AfterIts own site, with its own box office
What changed
BeforeAfter
Tickets went through an agent whose fee, card processing included, was 7% plus VAT on every paid online booking.The band will sell its own tickets. Buyers will pay by card and get their e-tickets by email.
WordPress, last worked on by an agency, with an events page still titled 2021.The committee will keep the diary and news up to date from the admin screen.

Inside the site

The box office page, listing concerts to book directly with the band
/tickets/The box office
The what’s on page: every forthcoming date, with filters for concerts and contests
/whats-onWhat’s on, by month

How we went about it

01

We gave the band its own box office

Tickets will be sold on the band’s own site, and the band will keep every ticket price apart from the card fee.

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02

The players will use Bandroom

Bandroom is our own app for brass bands, and it’s launching soon. The band’s players will answer for rehearsals and concerts there, and the band will ask for deps from the same place.

03

We made the admin screen hard to break

Committees change, so the admin screen is built for someone who’s never met us. Every save is listed under What changed, and the site can be put back to how it was before any recent change.

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We also redrew the band’s crest: see Branding.