I have always enjoyed live music and have been going to see local band's for years. I started Writing the Website after getting fed up of searching for where all the bands were playing on the internet. Most of the local bands had good websites but not many advertised them so I decided to write something to link them all together. Hardly any of the Local live music venues & Music pubs had websites so i decided to name the site after my local music venue the Marne Inn Bishops Stortford

January 2003 I started Writing The "Bands at the Marne" Website. It had 5 pages of Gig lists with borrowed photos from 2-3 bands.

May rockfest 2003 I bought my first digital camera to take photos of the bands and started taking photos most times I went down the pub.

June 2003 Steve Forward asked for help starting a Red Lion Stevenage Website. Steve did all the programing & I supplied the photos gig lists & Band Info.

September 2003 added Fatling & Firkin pub in Hornchurch to the site.

January 2004 this had increased to 5 live music pubs & photo's of 30 bands. However this had started to outgow the "Bands at the Marne" site & a rewrite was needed. Whilst searching for appropriate domain names I found www.livebandphotos.co.uk so this website was born with about 8 live music venues and music pubs in herts & essex folowed by 2 live music venues in Bedfordshire

January 2005 Many more live music venues have been added and had now got photos of over 50 bands. However doing gig lists for so many music venues is time consuming so needed to find a quicker way of updating.

July 2005 Converted the whole site to php so that to display more photos of bands. now have 20-30 photos on most pages

October 2005 Added a gig database to the site. This allowed me to increase the number of gigs and live music venue's and save a lot of time. tested with 20 music venue's and 50 bands

January 2006 The website is still expanding. Currently over 70 bands in the photo gallery. the gig list database is also expanding with 2115 gigs with 110 Bands in 32 live music Venues

November 2006Big upgrade to the database. Bands and pubs can now add their own gigs. New gig list pages for most bands & a search band gig lists page. Many new live music pubs added.

I am still going to see live bands most thursday friday & saturday nights taking photo's most nights.