How does the "EVENTS" work? Recommendations.

How does the event system work?

Because I don't understand it at all.

To give an example: I'm a fan of the band The Computers. I saw them a few days ago and loved the concert. So I went to their site to see if they have another gig soon. Yes they did. So then I check lastfm but it is not recommended for me although I have listened to the band alot of times? (Both events were created on lastfm)

So why was the second date not in my Events menu?

I have artists in the Events menu that I do not like at all or never listened to. So why is that?

I have my events set to "Belgium", so in the whole country. And the other event was a few days later than the first one so it wasn't a past event.

That makes no sense.

I can see some context for events would help, i'll suggest that to the product team.

@witter56: If you have marked yourself as attending or interested in an event on Last.fm, it won't show up in your recommendations as you've already shown interest. I can see in your recent activity one of the events you were attending:

witter56 went to The Computers at Botanique. last week

We won't recommend that event to you as you were marked as attending.

Why is this event: http://www.last.fm/event/3142314+Angels+-+Airwaves+at+Ancienne+Belgique+on+6+April+2012 not recommended for me?
I have almost 100 scrobbles from this artist and it is not recommended...

Something is wrong.

@witter56: Did you mark yourself as attending or interested then remove your interest/attendance? If you do this we won't recommend the event either. Actually it's just reappeared in my recommended events. I'll try and find out what's going on, you're getting recs for other events at the venue so there shouldn't be a problem.

@messymess: Thanks for the feedback, you can't currently make this private, but it's a valid suggestion.

This gets suggested: http://www.last.fm/event/3098128+Randy+Newman+at+Ancienne+Belgique+on+25+February+2012
Randy Newman, and I only have 1 scrobble of him...

Can you make the option to click "not interested" so the event dissapears from your recommended events list?

thanks FRIEND

Yes.

I think this issue goes with the change of events page. Before, whenever a new concert might interest me, I knew it. Now, I must have other sources to know when my favourite bands play near my town. Unfortunately, it's not enough and that was why Last.fm was a brilliant idea, because it gives us recommendations of gigs that might interest us and not only will interest us.

I'll give to the staff a clear example. Last year, Apocalyptica plays in Brest, France. I knew it instantly through Last.fm. This year, Scorpions and the Cranberries plays in the same city. I knew for the first one as I was surfing on the web, the second one through Songkick.

And it's very weird because when I'm looking for gigs in bigger cities like Rennes, Lyon or Paris, I've not really this issue. I supposed that it was because events were not added in Last.fm base. So I decided to add them myself, but nothing has changed, I have only one recommendation for a festival that clearly isn't linked to my music tastes...

So if you can do anything to fix this issue, please, do it :)

i am a longtime user of sonicliving (using my last.fm artists), but have recently stopped getting event notification emails from them for some reason. (they have terrible customer service and have not returned my messages asking about this problem.)

i would love for last.fm to send event emails on a weekly and an "ASAP" basis, so that i am notified when concerts are announced and when they go on sale. the calendar integration you have is handy, but doesn't help me when the show sold out two months ago.

in the meantime, i'm thinking of trying songkick. is there an easy way to sync it with last.fm?