Modern Fast, secure and built to current standards. Every Drift app works properly on a phone, because that’s where the music industry actually works.
About
Software for the people who make live music happen
Drift Creative Systems builds simple, well-made apps for bands, labels, venues and festivals. We're a small team in Devon who'd rather make five tools that work beautifully than fifty that nearly do.
Built by people who go to the gigs
We’ve spent years building websites and systems for businesses of every kind. But our weekends are spent in fields and sweaty back rooms, at festivals like ArcTanGent and 2000 Trees and at gigs all over the country. And we kept noticing the same thing: the music industry runs on brilliant people and clunky tools.
Band websites go months without an update because every change needs a developer. Labels juggle a dozen logins for a dozen artists. Festival-goers squint at a PDF stage-times grid on a phone with one bar of signal. None of these are hard problems. They just hadn’t had anyone build the right thing.
So we started building it. Drift began with a festival clashfinder we made for ourselves, and grew into a suite of apps for everyone in the chain, from the artist and their label to the venue, the promoter and the fan.
“The music industry runs on brilliant people and clunky tools. We’re fixing the tools.”
Made in Devon
We’re based in Devon, in the south-west of England, and work with artists, labels and venues right across the UK. Most of our work happens remotely, but we’re always happy to meet up, especially if there’s a gig involved.
Drift is built by The Bonsai Digital Collective, a WordPress studio that looks after more than 50 websites for clients across the UK. That matters to you: Drift isn’t a start-up that might vanish next year. It’s backed by an established team that has been building, hosting and supporting websites for years, with real people answering support tickets.
How we work
Modern. Minimal. Purposeful.
Our tagline is also how we decide what to build.
Minimal We leave things out on purpose. If a feature doesn’t save someone time or make a fan’s night better, it doesn’t ship.
Purposeful Every app solves a real problem we’ve seen first-hand, from the side of the stage, the box office or the crowd.
Fair Honest prices that small labels and independent artists can afford, no long contracts, and your content always stays yours.
Human When you contact support, you get one of us, not a chatbot or a call centre. We know your artists by name.
Get in touch
Let's talk music, and software
Whether you run a label, manage a roster, book a venue or put on a festival, we'd love to hear what's slowing you down. Book a 20-minute demo, or just drop us a line.