The Rest is Noise Southbank Centre Festival

[Petrushka]

Just had a look at the website http://therestisnoise.southbankcentre.co.uk/#1 to see if there are any concerts that might be worth attending and find it the most complicated and off-putting website I've ever come across. All I want is a list of the concerts not a navigational nightmare.

I gave up.

[Thropplenoggin]

Just had a look at the website http://therestisnoise.southbankcentre.co.uk/#1 to see if there are any concerts that might be worth attending and find it the most complicated and off-putting website I've ever come across. All I want is a list of the concerts not a navigational nightmare.

I gave up.

Form, um, "triumphing" over function.

Try this: http://therestisnoise.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/

- Hover your cursor over the squares for 'pop-up' detail.
- Click on individual squares for more detail.
- Click above the entire table for a more detailed calendar for January.

[teamsaint]

I have found their emails, marketing and websites tricky and slow in the past.
Was looking at the RSC site today, and that also seemed to be a triumph of style over user friendliness !

[Petrushka]

Form, um, "triumphing" over function.

Try this: http://therestisnoise.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/

- Hover your cursor over the squares for 'pop-up' detail.
- Click on individual squares for more detail.
- Click above the entire table for a more detailed calendar for January.

Yes, I tried all that but it is impossibly clunky and lacking any sense of helping the punter to clearly and simply see exactly what's on without multiple clicks and pop-ups. I think I'd have lost the will to live by the time I'd been through January.

Why is it so complicated? Who designs these things?

[Serial_Apologist]

S Bank are notoriously offputting in their PR - the London Jazz Festival last November was just one example, with performances marked free, family, pay etc but no actual prices in the catalogue - it was like standing outside a posh restaurant in the rain looking at the menu with no prices attached so as to put off the hoi polloi - one had to search elsewhere

[amateur51]

I agree that the website and the paper leaflet are unnecessarily complex, confusing and poorly put together.

So far, my experience of the music-making and the mini-lectures have been very positive

[teamsaint]

I agree that the website and the paper leaflet are unnecessarily complex, confusing and poorly put together.

So far, my experience of the music-making and the mini-lectures have been very positive

the concert broadcast on Wednesday was terrific.

[amcluesent]

30th November 2013 / 19:30, Eighties: the rhythm of a decade, Live on Radio 3

Explore the mixed-up show-off 1980s as we create the soundtrack to the decade.

[MrGongGong]

Never mind the website
just go to this

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/györgy-márta-kurtág-hiromi-kikuchi-72762