About This Project

The Newcastle Music Directory has gradually grown in size to become a unique resource for the local music community. This site aims to showcase the music of Newcastle and provide a comprehensive index of thousands of websites that highlight musical diversity of the region.

This website is an attempt to bring regionality back to the internet, where huge websites threaten to homoginise the musical content, making the geographic origin of the music irrelevant.

The geographic area covered by this website is shown in orange on the map to the right. The area stretches roughly from the Hawkesbury river in the south to Taree in the North, and West to Merriwa in the upper Hunter Valley.

All of the musicians on this website have been based in the area around Newcastle at some time between 1999 and now. It is intended to be an archive of information for people looking for information about the music scene in this region.

Timeline

The following is a brief timeline outlining the project's major milestones:

• November 1999 - Compilation of the database begins
• May 2000 - 100^th link added
• January 2001 - Database back end migrated from flat file to a MySQL relational database. Scripting language changed from Perl to PHP
• February 2001 - Current design and colour scheme established
• March 2001 - 500^th link added to database
• October 31^st 2001 - Launch of the TE Archive
• January 2002 - 1000^th link added to database
• August 2002 - 250^th Artist added
• February 2003 - Database structure updated to separate Links and Artists tables
• March 2003 - 2000^th link added to database
• June 6^th 2003 - Site moved to new server to accommodate space and bandwidth requirements
• June 2003 - 500^th artist added
• July 2003 - Artists database cross referenced with the articles in the TE Archive. Individual page provided for Each Artist. Number of links exceeds 3000
• August 2003 - Songs entered in the 2002 and 2003 Newcastle Music Awards are indexed and a link to each entry is provided from the entrants profile.
• September 22^nd 2003 - Publication of the schedule of events for Newcastle Music Week 2003
• September 2003 - 4000^th link added to database
• November 19^th 2003 - 1000^th Artist added
• August 2004 - Entries in the 2004 Newcastle Music Awards indexed; Number of artists exceeds 1200
• September 2004 - 5000^th link added
• September 8^th 2004 - Site news moved to automated publishing system.
• September 28^th 2004 - Site updates made available via RSS.
• July 2005 - Launch of NMBot, a web robot designed to improve indexing and maintenance of the links database.
• August 2005 - Number of artists exceeds 1500
• September 28^th 2005 - Site operator Andrew Goodwin receives a Newcastle Community Volunteers Award for his work on the site.
• October 2005 - 6000^th link added to database
• May 11^th 2006 - 7000^th link added; Number of artists exceeds 1700.
• September 11^th 2006 - Entries in Triple J's Unearthed Competition indexed.
• September 25^th 2006 - 8000^th link added; Number of artists exceeds 2000.
• September 26^th 2006 - Launch of the Gig Guide.
• October 2006 - Supports Newcastle Music Week 2006 by providing website support.
• October 12^th 2006 - Site moved to Australian based server; All content moved to www.newcastlemusic.com.
• October 16^th 2006 - News system restructured.
• November 23^rd 2006 - 9000^th link added; Number of artists exceeds 2500.
• December 2006 - Videos section launched.
• December 7^th 2006 - Site Search functionality upgraded; Sitemap added.
• January 2007 - Number of artists exceeds 2800.
• February 27^th 2007 - 5000^th gig listed in the Gig Guide.
• April 10^th 2007 - Number of artists exceeds 3000.
• May 11^th 2007 - Restructure of the link categories. New categories include Managers and Agents, Sound and Lighting, Promotion, Photography, Production and Tuition.
• May 24^th 2007 - Launch of the Venues section of the site.
• July 1^st 2007 - 10,000^th gig listed in the Gig Guide.
• August 4^th 2007 - Launch of the Events section.
• August 2007 - Additional RSS feeds made available.
• September 6^th 2007 - 1000^th Video added to the site.
• February 4^th 2008 - 20,000^th gig listed in the Gig Guide.
• March 8^th 2008 - Workshop given at the Port Fairy Folk Festival about internet technologies.
• April 5^th 2008 - Number of artists exceeds 3500.
• April 17^th 2008 - Launch of the 1233 ABC Newcastle Music Awards Archive.

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