INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

search_gigs

Gigs HAPPENING across the UK — the public listings directory of shows to go and see (mostly imported, already booked).

gigxchange.appnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for search_gigs and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.gigxchange]
url = "https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gigxchange": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: gigxchange
Remote MCP URL: https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gigxchange": {
      "url": "https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "gigxchange": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "gigxchange",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://mcp.gigxchange.app/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

search_open_gigs — Member-posted gigs that are OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS — real venues/promoters looking to book an act, future dates only.
search_available_performers — GigXchange artists and bands open to a booking on a specific date.
search_open_mics — Recurring UK open mic nights in a city, with day/frequency, signup method, backline and fee.
search_venues — The public directory of UK grassroots live-music venues in a city (listings, no booking): capacity, backline, PA, engineer and genres booked.
search_available_venues — GigXchange MEMBER venues open to receiving a gig request on a specific date (free-by-default: open unless the venue marked that date).
get_index_summary — Overview of the GigXchange Index (GX Index), the UK live-music pay index: headline counts, the cities it covers, every published monthly issue (slug, title, url), the latest issue's open datasets (HuggingFace, Kaggle, Zenodo DOI) and the city average-fee league behind the Pint Index.
get_rates — What UK acts typically get paid, from the GigXchange Index: median and range (25th-90th percentile) by city, gig type and act size, with sample size and an honest label when a figure is regional, UK-wide or modelled.
get_index_issue — One published GigXchange Index monthly issue by slug (e.