Corrections
Every correction we have made since we started, in the order we made them. It is not a short table and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
| Date | Piece | What was wrong | What we did |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2023 | The Aviary at forty | Gave the venue's opening year as 1983. It was 1981. | Corrected in the piece |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Notch & Co. at five | Misspelled a label founder's surname throughout. | Corrected and the piece re-sent to the newsletter |
| Jul 8, 2023 | Osric Vane — Hall Light | Said the record was self-released. It was on Pale Interval. | Corrected |
| Sep 27, 2023 | What the door split actually is | Two of the six figures were transposed between venues. | Both corrected, and the chart rebuilt |
| Jan 15, 2024 | Unit 9 reopens | Gave the capacity as 200. It is 120. | Corrected |
| Mar 3, 2024 | The Long Wednesdays interview | Attributed a quote to the wrong member of the band. | Corrected, with an apology in the piece |
| May 21, 2024 | What a support slot pays (2024) | Counted one band's fee before their agent's commission and the others after, so the average was $40 too high. | Recalculated, and the method published |
| Aug 9, 2024 | The Brayfield sells | Reported the sale as agreed. It was not agreed for another six weeks. | Corrected, and the timeline in the piece rewritten |
| Nov 30, 2024 | Perennial Static live | Named a support act who did not play that night. | Corrected |
| Feb 14, 2025 | Pressing in the north | Gave Corrow Pressing's lead time as 14 weeks against a source who had said 14 days. | Corrected |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Ivy Mensah, first show | Said it was her first show. It was her third. | Corrected, and the First Show tag removed from the piece |
| Aug 20, 2026 | The Fathom Street sleeve, start to finish | Credited the wrong printer, and gave the edition as 500 where it was 460. | [Both corrected](/correction-fathom-street-sleeve-credits/) |
| Oct 12, 2025 | Dray & the Tallows at the Lantern Rooms | Described a PA failure that did not happen; the writer had confused it with a different night. | Piece amended and the paragraph removed |
| Dec 4, 2025 | A weekend at Fathom Street Recordings | Substantial: the piece relied on a single source who turned out to have overstated their role, and we had not sought a second. | **The piece was taken down.** It has not been republished and it will not be |
To request a correction, write to corrections@merchtable.example and say what is wrong. It goes to an editor who did not write the piece. We will tell you what changed and when, we will date the change in the piece itself, and we will add it here — we do not silently edit. If we think you are wrong you will get a reply explaining why, which is slower than agreeing with you and better than ignoring you.