JoSaka.com Josaka, an indepedent record label and music promoter
Title
Josaka - live music in Berkshire - gig guide, news, reviews, venues and resources
Description
Josaka supports live music in Berkshire. Gig guide, news, reviews, venues, resources, classifieds, discussion forum and features.
Languages
English
Additional Information
Josaka.com was registered on 12 February 1999 by Kevin Harrington. It's first ever use was to get a huge PowerPoint presentation to Amsterdam for a speech that Kevin was making there at a Gartner Group conference. As is the way of things, his service provider complained about the 25mb of space the presentation was taking up so he removed it. Then Josaka started becoming his own personal portal. Odd links to music sites were added to a page that just kept growing.
The first "public" use of it was to support the band Short People. Kevin was the sound engineer for Short People and therefore had a personal interest in promoting the band. News, gig info and the like was posted on Josaka. This was subsequently developed and became a micro or child site within Josaka.
Whilst effective in promoting Short People there wasn't a lot of reason for people to visit the site every day or week. Therefore Josaka started adding other local live music content. The result is one big beast of a site that gets a fair bit of traffic. There are now over 4,500 (October 2006) pages of content.
Josaka is truly independent and has editorial independence. The purpose of the site is to positively support live music in Reading and Berkshire. There have been lots of messages of thanks and support to Josaka, some of them can be seen by clicking here. Also, Josaka occasionally receives awards and some of them can be seen by clicking here.
The domains used for Josaka include: www.josaka.com, www.josaka.co.uk, www.josaka.net, www.josaka.org, www.josaka.info, www.josaka.biz, www.josaka.org.uk, www.josaka.eu and www.berkshirelive.co.uk.
Josaka started it's sell-out birthday party gigs in February 2004.
In February of 2006 Josaka Music Ltd was formed by Jim Bowes and Kevin Harrington. This business was established as a spin off, stand alone record label and music management company.
In August 2006 Josaka progressed a partnership with the Big Fat Guide to deliver an improved, weekly gig guide service.
October 2006 saw Josaka commence a monthly gig at the Cellar Bar, South Hill Park, Bracknell.
