How we choose what goes in

Everything is checked. Before an event goes in, someone opens the venue’s own page and confirms the date, the start time and the price. If we cannot confirm it, it does not go in.

Nothing is paid for. No venue, promoter or agency can buy a listing or a position on a page. If anything on this site is ever paid for, it is labelled as advertising in the place it appears.

We take things down. Past events disappear from the editions automatically. Seasonal pages are rewritten every year, not left to rot with last year’s dates.

We say when something is free, and when it is sold out. A free event that needs a booked ticket is marked as such. Sold out means sold out, not “limited availability”.

We link to the venue. Not to a reseller, not to an affiliate. If a venue sells its own tickets, that is the link you get.

How a listing gets checked

We read the booking page, not the blurb. A venue’s own copy describes the series: every Friday and Saturday, nightly until December. The booking widget lists the performances that actually exist, and the two disagree more often than you would expect. Where they differ, the widget wins. This is the single rule that has caught the most errors on this site.

We say when a date is not confirmed. Some fixtures follow the same pattern every year and have not been announced yet. Where that is the case we say so under the date, in the listing, rather than presenting a pattern as an announcement. When the organiser publishes, we replace it with the real date.

A link is loaded before it is published. If it does not resolve, it does not go in. A confident wrong link is worse than no link at all, and expired venue domains get bought and repointed at things you would not want to click.

When something closes, we say so. A venue or a fixture that has ended for good is marked closed and drops out of everything that means what is on, but the page stays up and says what happened. People go on looking for a thing for years after it stops, and a page that answers them is more use than a dead end.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Wrong date, wrong price, a venue that has moved or closed, a link that goes nowhere. Send it through the contact page and say which page you were reading.

What happens then. We check it against the venue’s own page or booking system, not against another listings site. If it is wrong we correct it and clear the cache so the fix is live within minutes. Where a correction changes something a reader may have acted on, such as a date or a price, we say on the page that it was corrected and when.

We would rather leave a field empty than guess it. If we do not have a price, a postcode or a start time, the listing says so instead of estimating. An empty field is a gap; an invented one is a mistake that looks like a fact.

Telling us about a mistake

Write to admin@thelateedition.co.uk with the page and what is wrong on it. A date, a price or a start time is checked against the venue’s own page and corrected the same day. You do not need to be the venue to report something, and we would rather hear it twice than not at all.