Founder diary · Case study
@john
35 nights logged. 14 cities. One northern corridor of rooms that turned into Radar.
Leeds · Manchester · UK
WolverhamptonLincolnHullLeedsManchesterDoningtonDublin
- Past gigs
- 35
- Cities
- 14
- Artists
- 34
- First show
- 2005
Gigvault’s “Meet Alexandra” page is a polished product story. This is Radar’s version — built from a live diary, not a marketing persona.
@john is Radar’s founder. The profile is public-facing and the numbers below are from the production database on 12 Sep 2026: 39 shows logged in total, 35 already past, 4 still ahead (Muse, The Strokes, Suede & the Manics, and a 2027 Rush date at Co-op Live).
No AI “music identity” card. No invented emotional quote. Just the route the nights actually took — from Civic Hall Wolverhampton in 2005 to a 5-star Tame Impala night in Manchester this May.
Signals on the timeline
A few coordinates on the sweep — first ping, home room, festival fields, and the shows still on the map.
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Dream Theater · Civic Hall
Wolverhampton. The oldest ping in the diary — twenty years before Radar shipped.
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Albert Hammond, Jr. · Brudenell
Leeds. The room that becomes the home signal — six Brudenell nights and counting.
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Download Festival
Castle Donington logged twice. Festival nights sit in the same timeline as club bills.
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Tame Impala · Co-op Live
Manchester. Rated 5★ — same arena block as upcoming Strokes and Muse dates.
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Strokes, Suede, Muse, Rush
Four upcoming pins still warming on the map — the diary keeps past and future in one sweep.
Seen live — not streamed
These are the artists he actually stood in a room for — ranked by logged nights, not streams.
- 1 Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard
- 2 Enter Shikari
- 3 Johnny Marr
- 4 Suede
- 5 Tame Impala
- 6 Gorillaz
- 7 The Hives
- 8 Ghost
Where the nights happened
Fourteen cities, but the weight sits on the Leeds–Manchester axis — with Hull, Sheffield, Lincoln, and Donington filling the gaps.
Home signal
Brudenell Social Club
Six nights in Leeds — more than any other room. Co-op Live is the arena counterweight at four. That mix is the Radar product thesis: club bills and bowl shows belong in the same diary.
On the profile now
Pinned on the profile today — the taste board sitting beside the logged history.
Buzzard Buzzard BuzzardBring Me The HorizonThe StrokesTame ImpalaSuedeGorillazEnter ShikariMuseIce Nine KillsShinedown
Why Radar looks like this diary
Most concert apps optimise for the next ticket. @john’s problem was older: nights already lived — support acts, weird rooms, festival mud, the Brudenell bill you still quote years later — fading into Photos albums and WhatsApp threads.
Radar is the productised version of that archive. Find pulls upcoming UK listings. The diary keeps the past. Wrapped, achievements, and friend tags sit on top of nights you actually attended — the same way this profile already does.
If Alexandra’s Gigvault page is “what a vault can look like,” @john’s Radar page is “what the founder’s own map looks like while the app is live.”
Start your own sweep. Log the last show you went to — then watch the cities and artists fill in the way @john’s did from 2005 to now.