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Live in Western Mass · Pre-launch

Tickets, shows and
the people you go with.
One app.

Wristband is a ticketing platform and a social network for live music in the Valley. Every venue's calendar in one place, tickets sold at the price on the listing with nothing added at checkout, and a profile where you follow venues, see who is going, and buy together.

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$0added at checkout
4towns, one calendar
Openhandle claims
@mayarThe Brickway · Aug 14
@mayarThe Iron Bell · Aug 29
@mayarMillrace Brewing · Sep 6
@yournameYours · unclaimed
A season of shows under one name. The name is the part you pick.
Why we built this

A $25 ticket hasn't cost $25 in 25 years.

Somewhere between a band announcing a date and you getting a barcode, a service fee appeared. Then an order processing fee. Then a facility charge, for a building you have not walked into. Then a delivery fee, for an email.

Almost none of it reaches the band. Very little reaches the venue. It is rent, collected by whoever happens to own the checkout, and it has climbed for twenty years because nobody buying a ticket was ever in a position to argue.

We are from here. We go to shows here. We got tired of a $25 night out costing $34 before the first drink, with the difference going to a company three time zones away that has never set foot in the Valley. So we built the thing we wanted to exist: one calendar for every venue, tickets at the listed price, and a way to bring your friends.

Not an introductory offer. Not a promo code. The number on the listing is the number that leaves your account, permanently.

Typical ticket site
  • Ticket $25.00
  • Service fee + 3.49
  • Order processing + 1.23
  • Facility charge + 2.00
  • Delivery, of an email + 2.50
You pay $34.22 37% on top of the price you clicked
Wristband
  • Ticket $25.00
  • Service fee none
  • Order processing none
  • Facility charge none
  • Delivery none
You pay $25.00 The number you clicked. That is the whole feature.
APRIL 15, 2026 A jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster broke antitrust law.

Thirty three states refused the federal settlement, took it to trial, and won. The jury found an unlawfully maintained monopoly in ticketing at major venues that raised costs for fans and artists.

New York Attorney General
MAY 2025 The law now makes them show you the fee. It did not make the fee go away.

The FTC's junk fee rule requires the all in price up front. Every big site complied by moving the number, not removing it.

Federal Trade Commission
WESTERN MASS · NOW We stopped waiting for a remedy and built one.

The venue is paid directly and covers its own card processing, the way every kitchen and barber on Main Street already does. That is the whole mechanism. It is not clever. It is just what the rest of the world does.

What Wristband is

Find the show, buy the ticket, go with people.

Three things that only work properly together. Ticket sites stop at the receipt. Listing sites never sell anything. Social apps have no idea what is on sale tonight.

01 · Shows

Every venue, one calendar

Concerts, DJ nights, open mics and one off shows across Northampton, Easthampton, Holyoke and Amherst, posted by the venues themselves.

02 · Tickets

The listed price is the price

No service fee, no processing, no delivery charge. A wristband pass on your phone, scanned at the door, and handed to a friend in a tap.

03 · People

Your @handle is the account

Follow venues and friends, see who is going, post the night, and let people buy straight from the post instead of a screenshot in a group chat.

A look at the calendar · examples

Every venue in the Valley, one list.

House shows, listening rooms, the mill spaces, the bars with a stage in the back. If it has a door and a doorman it belongs on the same calendar as everything else.

Example listings. Venue and event names here are placeholders, not real on sales.

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How it works

Two sides of the same night.

Nobody decides to go to a show alone in a search box. They hear about it from someone. Wristband puts the checkout where that conversation already happens, and gives the venue the other end of it.

How a Friday goes

Six steps, start to encore

Open the calendar

One list for the whole Valley. Filter by tonight, by town, by venue.

Tonight Northampton · 6 shows Night Shift: Late Jazz $18

Follow what you like

Follow the venue and the band. Their next shows land in your feed.

@the-iron-bell Following @quabbinkids Following

Buy at the listed price

The number on the card is the number on your statement. Nothing added.

$18 ticket · $18 at checkout Buy

Send one to a friend

Transfer a pass by @name, wallet to wallet, at face value.

Sent to @mayar · at face value Sat

Post the night, tag them

Tag the friend and the venue. The show travels with the photo.

@mayar and I at @the-iron-bell tonight

Friends see you are going

Your going list nudges the people most likely to come, and they buy from your post.

Sam and 3 friends are going @dev just got tickets from your post Join

And the rest of the app

Your feed

Venues you follow and friends you know, one column

@mayar Third time this year. Still not over it. Sat 23 The Quabbin Kids w/ Cold Creek Tickets

No algorithm deciding what your Tuesday should look like.

See who is going

Friends by name, everyone else a number

Sam and 3 friends are going 41 going · nine of them you know

A friend is someone you follow who follows you back. When one grabs a ticket, you hear about it.

Post the night

Photos in, and the show travels with them

@sofia killed it at @the-iron-bell last night

Tag any person and any venue with an @. The venue hears about your post, your friends see the date, and Tickets is one tap away.

Tickets that travel

Send one to a friend by @name, wallet to wallet

Sent to Maya Torres Sat, Sep 5 @maya · friends · at face value

You see the face and the name before it goes, and it lands in their wallet the moment they say yes.

Go by your @name

One switch, and your real name leaves every public page

@wrencast is going · @wrencast posted a photo

Posts, replies, going lists, search: the handle stands in everywhere. The venue still sees the name on your ticket, for the door.

Direct messages

Friends, and the venue itself, one inbox

Is Friday all ages? All ages until 10, then 21+. See you there. The Iron Bell

Strangers wait in Requests until you say yes. Your inbox stays yours.

Before we open

Pick your handle now, wear it later.

Your handle is how you show up: who follows you, what you are going to, who is coming with you. Claim it before launch and it is held for you. One per person, free, forever.

Letters, numbers and underscores. Three characters or more.

@ Held for you. We will email you when doors open.
If you run a venue

The number you list is the number they pay.

You keep the door. Buyers pay what you list, the money lands in your own account the day of the show, and the people who bought are yours to reach again for free.

$0

Added at checkout

On every ticket, for every buyer, permanently. Not an introductory rate and not a promo code.

Same day

You get paid

Money lands in the venue's own account on the day of the show, not thirty days after the last encore.

Your list

Stays yours

The people who buy from you are your audience. Export them, post to them, keep them if you ever leave.

Put your venue on the calendar

Doors open this fall

See what is playing, then take your name.

The calendar is live now. Handles are free until launch day, and the good ones do not survive it.

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