Enjoy England have launched a six month campaign called ‘England Rocks‘ to make the most of increased interest in live music. There has been a proliferation in music festivals in the last few years, one that springs to mind was the ‘Innocent Drinks‘ free festival organised last year.

The campaign rides on the back of this spurt of interest and ties in with Britain’s rich musical past and the Cavern club’s forthcoming 50th anniversary and encourages site visitors to visit the locations and destinations linked to icons past and present.

Visitors browse a database organised into four categories (Beatlemania, Festivals, Places of Interest and Venues) and ten English regions. Results are displayed in a Flash driven jukebox and alongside a Google powered map pinpoints each place of interest, with up to 200 at present.

I like the campaign. Let’s take a closer look at the site and how it operates.

The image above is a screenshot of the underlay graphic that the jukebox and map sits on.

The screenshot to the right shows the flash Jukebox in mid motion displaying places of interest in the South East and you can cycle through listings depending on the number. The text size could be a little bigger and clearer, particularly the description of each event.

Selecting a place of interest kicks the map into action, honing into that location and further details are found on a pop up including external links, an image and an audio snippet (see below for more screenshots).

I like the way the site operates off the one page – one thought to avoid the pop ups would be to relocate the instructions element. Perhaps more use could be made of the mapping feature, when a region is selected, the map could display that specific area so that the visitor can see what is closer to their own location.