Case study · Official app

Jazz on Wick 2026

The first festival to make one of these apps its official companion app. Built from the festival's own running order, sent out in their mailer, added to their website, and pointed to in their key information — live through the afters to 4am.

62 sets · 10 venues · 1 day

Saturday 5 September 2026 · Hackney Wick, London

Open the app Where it started: We Out Here →
The Jazz on Wick 2026 app showing what's on now and next across the festival's venues
Jazz on Wick 2026 · Now & Next
Official — in the festival's mailer, website and key information Their data — built from the master schedule Free to the festival — a pilot, no cost, no strings
The story

From fan project to official app

Jazz on Wick is one day across ten venues in Hackney Wick, with 62 sets running through to afters at 4am. The festival supplied its running order from their master schedule, and the app was built from that — their data, one source.

The festival made it their official companion app. They put it in their mailer, added it to their website and directed people to it in their key information comms. That is what made this one different from We Out Here: the app was the festival's own channel, not something passed round on the side.

It ran free to the festival — a pilot with no cost and no strings, so that both sides could see what an official app does on the day before anyone talks about 2027.

In the field

What the numbers say

Cloudflare Web Analytics for festival week, 31 August – 6 September 2026.

2,240
visits in the festival window
82%
of the whole week's traffic fell in that window
2,730
visits across festival week
785
sessions with at least one interaction during the week

What "the festival window" means: Saturday 00:00 to Sunday 04:00 — 28 hours, covering the day and the afters. It includes the hours before doors, so 2,240 is a fair upper figure rather than a doors-to-close count. These are visits, not people.

Use was real rather than passive. Across the week, 785 sessions did something in the app — switching tabs, starring sets, using the venue filter — with the Line-up and Now & Next views all exercised.

Speed on a festival network

Core Web Vitals, festival week

Google's three field metrics, measured on real mobile networks in Hackney Wick.

95%
LCP Good — loading. LCP P75 887 ms
96%
INP Good — responsiveness to taps
97%
CLS Good — visual stability

For comparison, We Out Here 2026 over its festival fortnight came in at LCP 98%, INP 97% and CLS 99% Good — a bigger programme in a Dorset field, on the same engine.

The app

Two screens

Jazz on Wick 2026 app — Now and Next, what is on at each venue right now and what follows
Now & Next. What is on at each venue this minute, and what follows.
Jazz on Wick 2026 app — the line-up, all 62 sets by time with a venue filter
Line-up. All 62 sets by time or by venue, with search and a venue filter.
How it's built

What was verified

Each of these was checked on the day, not assumed.

01One file, offline

A single-file app that works offline once it has been opened. An add-to-home-screen prompt gets it onto the phone properly.

02Two ways to look

Views by time or by venue, search, a venue filter and an info section — so people find what they want the way they think about it.

03A personal plan

Star sets to build your own plan, with clash flags when two starred sets overlap.

04Calendar export

Export your plan to your calendar with a 15-minute notification on each set — including the fix that made .ics imports work on Android.

05Through to the afters

The afters ran in the app through to 4am. A dedicated afters section appeared 90 minutes before the 22:30 start, so nobody had to hunt for it.

06Their running order

Built from the festival's master schedule — 62 sets across 10 venues — so the app and the festival said the same thing.

What this one proves

That when a festival puts one of these apps in its own comms, people use it — and keep using it through the afters. It addresses information — what is on, where, and when — and nothing beyond that. It is not a safety or compliance product.

For 2027 the offer is the same engine, branded as your festival's own official app, built from your running order.

Get in touch

Tell me about your festival

Send me your dates and a rough idea of the programme, and I'll show you what I've built and what your app could look like.

phil@melosuite.co.uk Read the We Out Here case study →

Phil Godfrey t/a Melosuite · Hampshire, UK