General Archives

This page documents the history and development of this web site and contains a number of old pages, stored here for the record.

1st June 2011

Artsin Magazine began life when the domain name was registered on 22-Feb-2005, together with artsinleicestershire.com.

The site was constructed to be a sister site to traveltoleicester.co.uk, which had been created by the designers, B2B Web Consultants. The first edition of the site looked like the original site, its layout being templated from it.

The only remaining copy of what the site looked like can be seen from the PDF file made of the front page, which is dated 30th May 2007. This shows the three column layout and the Blue and Yellow Navigation boxes that matched those on the original travel web site.

Notice the masthead block was very different, being made form a variety of photo images that reflected the arts appearing in it at that time. The font now used for the name had not then been adopted.

At that time the site was branded to Pink Angel Promotions, an entertainment agency that had been created, with its own web site (now defunct.) The content and links of this home page indicates that rock music was a primary content of the site. The links also indicate that things like theatre, visual arts and other genres of music were also included.

At the time, B2B Web Consultants (which hosted and developed the Artsin site) was trading under the branding of Pink Angel Promotions in order to differentiate its arts-related work from that of its general commercial work.

In May 2007, an extensive listing of gigs was well under way. This page shows some of the promoters that were active at the time, such as 101 Promotions which was run by Paul Matts who previously managed the Attik live music venue.

The list also shows a date for the OBS (Original Bands Showcase). You can see entries for the 'Indie Rock Night', run at the Sun Bar in Churchgate by Arts in Leicestershire or Pink Angel Promotions, a weekly show where live bands played.

The list shows some of the bands that were active at the time; some of these no longer exist.

There was also a separate page (called the events list) for other types of shows. This splitting of rock gigs and general shows into separate lists is still a feature of the current magazine.

The page listing venues in Leicester is also of interest. Some of those that are listed here have now closed down (e.g. The Charlotte, The Half Time Orange) and some have changed their name (e.g. The current Firebug was then called the Firefly and Original Four is now called SuperFly) and The Alchemist is now called Squares Bar, although it no longer puts on live music.

Other pages

Looking back - pages you might have missed.

Acoustics Competition pages from 2008.

Pages from this magazine are comprehensively archived but these are not stored online.