Websites for bands and artists.
I'm Huw. I build sites for bands and artists and other small businesses around Bridgend and South Wales. I can help acquire and setup your domain, the hosting and your custom email.
It's just me, so you deal with the same person the whole way through.
For most sites I build, there's no ongoing monthly cost once it's live, that includes no hosting cost. You'll see some other agencies charge a monthly ongoing fee to keep your site live, with me, you only pay when you actually need something.
I'm in Bridgend, working across South Wales and remotely anywhere in the UK.
What your customers type
The searches worth turning up for. Each one wants something slightly different from the page it lands on.
- wedding bands South Wales
- how much does a wedding band cost
- wedding band or DJ
- function band hire Cardiff
- live music for corporate events
- acoustic singer for wedding ceremony
- tribute nights near me
- what is an EPK
- what to ask a wedding band
- your name, spelt roughly right, the morning after a gig
Most of it is your own name
Someone sees you at a festival or a mate’s wedding and types your name into their phone the next morning. What comes back is usually a Facebook page that stopped in 2023. The site’s job is to be what comes back instead - the next gigs, a video, somewhere to listen, who to talk to about booking.
Bookers decide off one video
Weddings book a year out, and the couple decides off one live video rather than a studio recording. They’re searching “how much does a wedding band cost” and “wedding band or DJ”, so the page that answers those honestly gets the enquiry. Venues and agents want the boring bits in one place - photos they can use, a setlist, a tech spec, a phone number. That’s an EPK, and it can be a page on the site rather than a PDF nobody updates.
Glossy, and still quick
This is the one trade where the site gets to show off. Full-screen photos, video, dark design, the lot - you’re selling a night out. The catch is all of that is heavy, and a site that stalls on a phone in a venue car park doesn’t get watched. I build them so the glossy bit doesn’t cost you the load time.
What I’d do for you
First chat is me asking where the bookings come from, then a scope and a price. If you want to sell merch or tickets, that’s on the Shopify page.
The build, your email and your Google profile
Most of these sites are static: plain files on a server, nothing to log into, no plugin sat there waiting to be patched. They load quickly on a phone with two bars of signal, and for most of them there's no ongoing hosting cost. No monthly retainer, and the domain renews once a year at list price in your name with no commission from me. If you'd rather edit the pages yourself I'll build you something you can edit, and tell you what it costs to run before we start.
Email goes on your own custom domain, setup properly so your quotes, invoices and confirmations land in the inbox rather than the spam folder.
Then the Google Business Profile, which on a phone often sits above every website on the screen. I go through yours with you and get it agreeing with the site, because when the two disagree they stop being read as the same business.
What I'd build for bands and artists in your town
The job is the same wherever you are. What changes is which town and village names belong on the page, that's what people type.
See where your site stands first
Put your address into the free check and it tells you where the site's hosted, what it's built with, what a search engine actually gets and whether your email is setup right. Takes about ten seconds and nothing on your site is touched. Run the free check.
If the email records come back failing, that's worth reading about on its own. If it's the site, here's how I build them, and here are five things to ask anyone quoting you.
Tell me about the business.
Say what you're trying to achieve and I'll tell you what I'd do, including when the answer is an hour on your Google Business Profile would do more than a new site.