How to share a concert to Instagram Stories
Every gig you log in Banded comes with a polaroid-style share card you can post directly to Instagram Stories. Here's the three-tap workflow.
Banded generates a polaroid-style share card for every gig you log — the artist photo, your star rating, the venue, the date, and your @username. The whole point of these is that they’re designed to look good in an Instagram Story without you needing to do any editing.
The three-tap workflow:
- Open the gig from your diary
- Tap the share icon (top right)
- Tap “Share to Instagram Stories”
Banded hands the image off to Instagram’s story composer, where you can add stickers, music, or text the same way you would with any photo.
What’s on the card
The standard polaroid card shows:
- Artist hero photo (pulled from Apple Music or Ticketmaster)
- Your star rating for the artist (out of 5, half-stars supported)
- Venue name and city
- Date of the gig
- Your Banded @username so people can find your profile
- A small Banded wordmark in the corner
It’s portrait-oriented (9:16) so it fills the Story frame edge-to-edge without cropping.
Sharing to apps other than Instagram
Tap the share icon and you’ll see the standard iOS share sheet. From there:
- TikTok — saves the card to your camera roll then opens TikTok in upload mode
- WhatsApp / iMessage — sends the card directly
- Threads — opens a new Thread with the card attached
- Save Image — drops it in your camera roll
“Share to Instagram Stories” is the top-pinned shortcut because that’s the most common destination, but everything else works.
Sharing a “Top Four” instead of a single gig
If you want to share your Top Four gigs (your all-time favourites, displayed on your profile) instead of a single show, go to Profile → Top Four → Share. The card shows all four polaroids in a 2x2 grid with your @username at the bottom.
This is a popular share format because it tells someone more about your taste in one image than any single gig would.
Year-in-Review share card
At the end of each calendar year (December 31st), Banded generates a Year-in-Review card automatically and surfaces it at the top of your home tab. The card shows:
- Total gigs that year
- Top artist
- Top venue
- Highest-rated show
- A favourite-quote style summary
Tap the share icon on the Year-in-Review card and the workflow is identical: one tap to Stories.
Custom share cards (Pro and Backstage)
Free users get the standard polaroid layout. Banded Pro subscribers can:
- Choose from a few additional layouts (ticket-stub, minimal, accent-bar)
- Apply a custom accent colour to the card
- Pick which fields are visible (you can hide the rating if you’d rather not broadcast that you gave the venue 2/5)
Banded Backstage subscribers additionally get a tiny “Backstage” badge on their card. Cosmetic only.
”My share card text is hard to read”
If the artist photo is very pale and the white overlay text gets lost, the card automatically darkens the background gradient to keep contrast readable. If you still find a specific card hard to read, send it to [email protected] — we tune the gradient logic against real-world examples.
”Can I just save the image and post it later?”
Yes — tap the share icon, then Save Image. The card goes straight to your camera roll at full resolution. Useful if you want to add it to a longer multi-photo Instagram post, or schedule via a third-party tool.
Why bother?
The honest reason these exist: a gig diary that nobody else sees is less fun. The polaroid card is a way to surface the “I just went to a great show” moment in the place where most of your friends already are. Most Banded users post one or two gigs a year — usually the ones they really loved.