How this agenda is put together

What gets listed

Three layers, and each covers something the others do not. First, nightlife and live programming from a curated roster of Madrid venues: the big club rooms, the electronic ones, the live rooms of Malasaña, the jazz basements around Huertas, the cocktail bars that program, and cultural centers like La Casa Encendida, Matadero and the Círculo de Bellas Artes. Second, ticketed programming — the theatre circuit, concerts, and the arena tier at Movistar Arena, Palacio Vistalegre and the Metropolitano — as its box offices publish it. Third, the city's public cultural agenda, which Madrid City Council publishes openly under its open-data reuse conditions. Those conditions ask for the source to be credited verbatim — Origen de los datos: Ayuntamiento de Madrid — and for the update date of the documents used to be given: the council's agenda dataset is updated daily. That layer carries the free, daytime and family programming the nightlife layer never announces.

All three are taken as their operators publish them. Nothing is retyped by hand, nothing is written by us, and no venue pays to appear or to rank higher. If a detail is not in the venue's own announcement, it does not appear on the card.

How often it refreshes

Several times a day, not once overnight. That is the entire point: a free-entry window announced at six in the evening for that same night has a shelf life of hours, and a page rebuilt once a day cannot carry it. Checking again through the day is also how corrections and reposts get picked up.

A refresh that often is what a whole class of plan depends on: free-entry windows, one-night drink deals, a guest added in the afternoon, a cancellation at eight. None of it gets as far as a ticketing platform.

What unconfirmed means

Announcements are often ambiguous. Dates get abbreviated, flyers omit the year, and a recap of last weekend can look a lot like an announcement for this one. When a detail cannot be established with confidence — most often the date, or whether an event is really tonight — the event is labeled unconfirmed rather than presented as fact.

Treat an unconfirmed listing as a lead worth checking, not a promise.

Where a card links back to

Cards link back to the announcement they came from, wherever the source publishes one: the venue's own post, the box office's listing, or the council's agenda entry. Some municipal entries arrive with no page of their own to point at, and those carry no link rather than an invented one. This is a directory of pointers, not a replacement for the announcement itself. If a detail matters to your night — the price, the age policy, whether it sold out an hour ago — the source is the thing to trust, always.

How this is paid for

Some ticket links earn a commission. It changes nothing about what is listed or the order it appears in: the agenda is ordered by time, and the headline pick by its own score, with no commercial weighting in either. A note in the footer of every page says so, and each commercial link carries rel="sponsored".

Corrections and removals

If you run a venue and you are not here, something is wrong, or you would rather not be listed, write to brandonbevans@gmail.com — that request is honored promptly. Listings link back to your own announcement and follow what you publish, so edits on your side flow through here.