Datasetpublic

gigxchange/uk-live-music-blog-corpus

UK Live Music Blog & Guides Corpus 109 long-form articles on the UK live music industry, published by GigXchange under CC BY 4.0. Written by working musicians and venue operators — not a content farm. Overview Metric Value Articles 109 Total words 305,841 Avg words/article 2,806 FAQ pairs 761 Topics 9 Date range 2026-03-01 to 2026-08-09 Language British English (en-GB) Domain UK live music booking, fees, contracts, venues, city scenes… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/gigxchange/uk-live-music-blog-corpus.

sourceHugging Facecc-by-4.0updated 2mo agoView on Hugging Face

0likes21downloads

Dataset Card

UK Live Music Blog & Guides Corpus

109 long-form articles on the UK live music industry, published by GigXchange under CC BY 4.0. Written by working musicians and venue operators — not a content farm.

Overview

Metric	Value
Articles	109
Total words	305,841
Avg words/article	2,806
FAQ pairs	761
Topics	9
Date range	2026-03-01 to 2026-08-09
Language	British English (en-GB)
Domain	UK live music booking, fees, contracts, venues, city scenes

Splits

`articles` (109 rows)

Field	Type	Description
slug	string	URL-safe article identifier
title	string	Article title
description	string?	Meta description
body	string	Full plain-text article body
word_count	int	Words in the body
topic	string	Topic classification (9 topics)
roles	string[]	Who the article is for: artist, venue, agent, promoter, general
faq_count	int	FAQ pairs extracted from this article
published_date	string?	ISO 8601 first-published date
modified_date	string?	ISO 8601 last-modified date
url	string	Canonical article URL
source	string	Always "GigXchange Blog"
licence	string	Always "CC BY 4.0"

`qa` (761 rows)

Field	Type	Description
question	string	FAQ question, verbatim from the article's FAQPage schema
answer	string	FAQ answer
source_slug	string	Slug of the article it came from
source_title	string	Title of that article
topic	string	Topic of the source article
roles	string[]	Role tags of the source article
source_url	string	Canonical URL of the source article
licence	string	Always "CC BY 4.0"

Contact details are redacted on export. The articles themselves carry venue booking addresses where that is what the reader needs; this corpus is a redistribution under CC BY 4.0, which is a different act, so real addresses and phone numbers are replaced with [email removed] / [phone removed]. Fictional worked examples used to teach a point are left intact. Venue domains are not redacted — a business front door is not personal data.

Use cases

—Domain adaptation — fine-tune language models on UK music industry language, pricing conventions, and booking workflows
—Long-form text generation — train or evaluate models on professional industry writing
—Extractive/generative QA — 761 verified Q&A pairs across 9 topic categories
—Text classification — classify by topic (venues, open-mics, rates-fees, wedding, booking, platform, career-strategy, legal-contracts, ai) or role (artist/venue/agent/promoter)
—RAG grounding — supply verified, sourced industry content to retrieval-augmented systems
—Content gap analysis — identify undertreated topics in music industry coverage

Topic distribution

Topic	Articles
rates-fees	37
ai	20
venues	15
wedding	14
open-mics	8
booking	8
legal-contracts	3
platform	2
career-strategy	2

Role distribution

Role	Articles
venue	67
artist	62
promoter	20
general	11
agent	11

Source

All articles are written by a working UK musician with 17 years of live performance experience. Content is fact-checked against GX Index rate data (3,800+ observations), MU rate cards, and verified venue/promoter sources. Articles are timestamped, versioned in git, and updated within 24 hours when prices or platform features change.

Blog index: gigxchange.app/blog

Citation

bibtex

@misc{gigxchange_blog_corpus_2026,
  title        = {UK Live Music Blog and Guides Corpus},
  author       = {Zahid, Naumaan},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {GigXchange},
  url          = {https://gigxchange.app/blog},
  licence      = {CC BY 4.0},
  note         = {109 articles, 305,841 words, 761 FAQ pairs}
}

Publisher

—GigXchange — the UK peer-to-peer live music marketplace. Wikidata: Q139677384
—Author: Naumaan Zahid — Wikidata Q139677387
—Parent: Eclipse Labs AI Ltd — Wikidata Q139677374
—Source: gigxchange.app/blog
—Also on Kaggle

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Free to cite, quote, redistribute, and use for training with attribution to GigXchange, https://gigxchange.app/.