Musicians-in-your-city

Tedious and appalingly bad website which looks like it was 'designed' by an accountant on a spreadsheet. (apologies to any accountants out there). I wanted to register on this website as a band looking for a vocalist only to be told I have to register as an individual musician first. The whole registration process is tedious beyond belief, being told off every time I clicked on 'submit': "you can't do this, you can't say that in this field..." I tell you what musicians-in-your-city.co.uk... you are a bunch of time-wasters. Back to Gumtree I guess.

Unbelievably bad. I can only think this is a scam - there is a suspiciously large number of apparently suitable musicians close to me for a start! It is literally almost impossible to actually follow their rules: for a start you have to put a 'comment' about yourself - but there'e no guidance on what the comment should be, and a huge list of 'forbidden' words - like 'band' for instance! From there it's downhill. I want a lead guitarist for an esisting band. To put an advert up, every single member of the band needs to go through the agony that is registration - and every single one has to go thru the whole ridicolous process. After you think you're done (maybe 24 hours later), you get emails from them telling you you've used the wrong word somewhere in your details etc and you've go to go back and redo it. I've never been completely defeated by a mere website before! Don't touch with a barge pole - the idea of them getting my bank details is scary!

All of the previous reviews confirm what I suspected. I was simply wanting to look for other musicians and it was an overly complicated process. The site wouldn't even recognize my post code to start with. It says easily contact other musicians, but you won't be able to contact anyone easily and certainly won't be able to contact anyone with difficulty unless you pay. I don't imagine there is anything or any useful information you can get with the initial free registration. The info on local players that pops up is frankly suspicious. And then the expectation is that you have a narrow and easily defined interest. You're either in a band and looking for one person or you're a person looking for a band. There is nothing in between. And what is with having 30 coins to spend? It's really confusing. I'm glad this review site exists because thanks to the above reviews, I have not yet paid anything, in fact I just deleted my free account on the site.

Quite astonishingly bad - Tried to register several times but always got a dialogue box saying I'd used a wrong word in the description box (one of the errant words was 'point') The rest of it is just as unfathomable. I didn't even realise until looking on jabber that it's a pay to use site so at least I didn't get as far as giving paypal details. The problem now is musicians-in-your-city has my email and keep sending me junk, OK it is filtered as spam but I still can't rid myself of these morons. DO NOT USE!

Is there an equivalent of the Razzies for unusable websites? This would win awards.
I can only assume that MIYC has been designed by music haters to try to stop bands from forming. It manages to combine unattractive design, poor instructions and difficulty of use with messages that border on outright hostile and features hidden behind a paywall. In case anyone reading this is a drummer in the Bristol area, drop me a line. It should be a quicker way of finding a musician than MIYC. Stay away.

I signed up and paid a subscription. I wanted to find a keyboard player. A keyboard player responded. Thats where the story ended. Despite spending hours trying to find out how to make contact through the site contact was denied. I even got other band members to register on instruction. Until I read the reviews I blamed myself being convinced that I was doing something wrong in navigating the site. I even got a threat that if I sent a written query that could have been dealt with by FAQS that I would be penalised

Tedious - terrible just terrible! The site takes you round in circles telling you that you can't access such an such a person as it has not been unblocked. After I received notification that someone had messaged me I tried to access the account to see who it was only to receive this.

You wish to unlock the following entry:
'Music Producer' introducing

Hence you are looking for the following:
'Music Producer'

Important!
To be able to unlock this entry you must create
The following 'searching for' entry first:
'is looking for '- Music Producer

Afterwards you will be able to access all entries of this kind
(Procedure: Startpage Log in)

Please don't bother with this site!

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The most frustrating and pointless website I have ever had the displeasure to come across.
Within 10 minutes I had to use all of my self restraint to stop myself from smashing my laptop into a 1000 pieces.
The basic concept of meeting other musicians in your locality is great, but the execution is so unbelievably inept it makes you want to cry within minutes.
As already mentioned by other reviewers, this is not the worst part of it...
The insulting and frankly pompous tone of the site 'administrators' is seriously wrong, and if you haven't already got steam coming out of your ears, the constant nagging, threatening insults will have your tearing out your hair...
I guess this site must have been designed and written by an 'iT Crowd' type Geek, who got bullied at school and now wants to have his revenge on all the Cool Musicians or something. I can't think of any other reason why someone would want to make such a relatively simple process so much of a nightmare!
Steer Well Clear and save yourself the grief!

If you only take one thing from this review - use Gumtree instead.

Musicians-in-your-city has a huge amount of baffling rules. Maybe part of their autocratic approach is due being lost in translation from their native german, but it's a rough user experience.

Say you're looking for a drummer - you have to fill in the comments field with 'something meaningful and interesting - min 50 characters' but you're not allowed to say 'what you are looking for' nor 'anything about your band'.

All quite odd, and there's no help at all in completing.

If they deem your entry against their rules - your account is frozen for 12 hours, whilst 'contacting support is forbidden during this time'.
You then make the amend, and have to wait another 12 hours for them to approve, again 'contacting support is forbidden.'

Totally bizarre they feel the need to run the site in this way. Much nicer would be to tell people they've got it wrong, give them guidance on what is needed to change and a chance to change it before freezing them out.

It probably explains why so few people are on this site, and why engaging with them is so stilted and difficult.

Nice idea, appalling execution and waste of money.

musicians-in-your-city.co.uk is a complete useless site and rubbish site. First, it asked you to tell it about yourself as a musician before you can advertise. Once you have done this you then can create an advert. So I am a musician who is looking for a female vocalist! Once you have got past the 50 words about yourself which can't contain this or that words you finally create as it states your advert only so find out 1 hour later you get a message:
II. INFORMATION
You have registered one or more entries on Musicians-in-your-City.
These entries violate the general terms and conditions of Musicians-in-your-City.
YES BECAUSE YOUR $#*!ING SYSTEM SAID I NEEDED TO CREATE A PROFILE OF MYSELF BEFORE I COULD PUT UP AN ADVERT Only me registered so what the $#*! you are talking about!
Complete $#*!ed up site that is waste of internet space people who run this site need a hole in the head. Avoid and go down your local music shop and advertise it will be much faster!

This website shouldn't even be named a website, its totally crap, once you pay the registration fee, thats game over, I met no musicians on this, it seems to me they caught a few people years back and kept their details up and those people have forgotten they even signed up, everyone I did get details for werent interested in meeting any other musicians, two people told me "you have the wron 'numba', " total waste of time and disappointing, I would advise anyone to keep away from it.

OMG this site is a total pain in the axxe.

DO NOT REGISTER. They have more security hoops to jump through than accessing the CIA's database.

You can't get past the the verify your landline number which they inform you you have entered but you haven't! Therefore you cant access the support form mail and therefore you get endless spammed email by them because you cant tell them to turn them off or delete the account.

Its like dealing with the Gestapo.

AVOID.