An old Phoncert link often identifies a particular concert, even when its player no longer works. This index reconnects the surviving show numbers with artists, venues and original announcements. It is a guide to the evidence, not a replacement streaming service: the former Phoncert audio files and app are not available from this publication.
What Phoncert used to connect
The preserved live-site catalogue listed performances by artist, venue and date. Individual pages used a show number in their address. That number matters because two artists on the same bill could have different listening links.
A later homepage capture from 2019 described an artist-engagement platform and an invitation-only beta. These are different historical views of the service, not evidence that the old player or beta is operating now.
March 2015: the Buffalo Iron Works links
Several surviving references come from Buffalo.fm, which published the listening links alongside its own local concert coverage. Those pages make it possible to distinguish an announcement from a recording notice.
| Former show number | Artist | Evidence and date context |
|---|---|---|
| 611 | Pink Talking Fish | The producer’s page identifies a recording at Buffalo Iron Works on 4 March 2015. |
| 639 | Ocular Panther | Announced for 21 March 2015 at Buffalo Iron Works. |
| 638 | TAUK | A separate listening link for the same venue and announced date, 21 March 2015. |
| 652 | The Suitcase Junket | The opening act in the announcement for 28 March 2015. |
| 653 | Marco Benevento | The other listening link in that 28 March announcement. |
The sources are Buffalo.fm’s Pink Talking Fish recording page, Ocular Panther announcement, TAUK announcement and Marco Benevento and Suitcase Junket announcement.
The last page also includes a video described as a previous Buffalo appearance. That distinction is easy to miss: an embedded clip beside an event announcement does not necessarily document the event being advertised. We have not relabelled it as the missing 28 March stream.
April 2015: two links at the Tralf
The producer’s announcement for 11 April 2015 places Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad and Danielle Ponder and the Tomorrow People at the Tralf Music Hall in Buffalo.
It assigns show 699 to Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad and 700 to Danielle Ponder. Keeping those assignments separate prevents the support act’s link from being silently renamed after the headliner. The announcement itself noted problems some listeners could have with direct web links; that is historical context, not an instruction to install an old app now.
May 2015: Orgone and Sophistafunk
The 18 May 2015 Buffalo Iron Works announcement identifies show 791 as Orgone and 802 as Sophistafunk. Its audio and video references include material from a previous Buffalo visit, so they should not automatically be treated as the missing streams from the advertised night.
For someone following an old listening link, the useful next step is the producer’s page and its own descriptions of each recording. A recognisable artist name is not enough to establish that two recordings cover the same performance.
Todd Nance and Friends at Cervantes
The preserved page for show 1000 identifies Todd Nance and Friends and the venue as Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom. The page contains a 2015 date and an early-morning time, but does not explain the time zone in the recovered text. We therefore do not present that display as a verified local concert date.
The page preserves an event identity and a historical description. It does not, on its own, establish that a complete, playable recording has survived.
How to follow a recording reference
- Keep the artist, venue and former show number together.
- Read whether the source announces a future stream or describes an existing recording.
- Check whether an embedded clip is from that event or an earlier performance.
- Use the artist’s or producer’s own recording links and descriptions.
The missing app, audio endpoints and download buttons have not been reconstructed as working services. This archive preserves the identification trail so that the absence of a player does not erase which performance an old link meant.