Editorial

Raman Makkar

Editor at Catch Movement

Editor at Catch Movement. Covers the Canadian Punjabi-music touring scene, NHL ticketing, and arena-tour logistics. Goes to ~30 shows a year across CA + US. Beyond editing, Raman has spent years navigating the patchwork of Canadian venue tiers — from intimate club floors to NHL arenas — tracking how Punjabi pop's touring infrastructure has grown to rival mainstream pop in seat count and production scale. His coverage blends first-hand attendance with behind-the-scenes research into ticketing systems, routing logistics, and fan-access programs so readers get advice grounded in what actually happens on show night, not recycled press-release copy. He approaches every guide with the same question: what would a well-prepared fan wish they had known before walking through that gate?

My Editorial Credentials

Raman's authority on Punjabi touring comes from lived experience: he has attended more than thirty concerts per year across Canada and the United States, including sold-out arena runs by Diljit Dosanjh, Karan Aujla, and AP Dhillon. He holds a working knowledge of NHL venue operations, having covered ticketing for multiple Canadian franchises and studied how arena staffing, gate flow, and seat map design change the live-event experience. His editorial background includes years of verifying presale mechanics firsthand — entering queues on Ticketmaster Verified Fan, testing credit-card presale windows (Amex, TD Music Insider, RBC Avion), and documenting how inventory behaves across sell-through curves for high-demand South Asian touring acts. He cross-checks facts with venue box offices and official Ticketmaster Canada feeds before publication. When a presale strategy changes — and Ticketmaster updates its Verified Fan program more often than most fans realise — Raman retests the process personally rather than relying on cached documentation. That hands-on standard is what keeps his guides current and trustworthy.

How I Research & Review

Every guide Raman publishes starts with a personal attendance log. If he has been to the venue, he maps his own experience of parking, entry queues, sightlines, and halal food availability against the venue's public capacity specs. Where he has not attended a specific venue, he interviews other regular concertgoers, reviews official venue accessibility documentation, and studies crowd-sourced seating charts on multiple platforms before synthesising that research into concrete advice. For ticketing guides, he buys real seats across multiple presale windows — not screenshotting from secondary sites — so price ranges and availability patterns are drawn from actual transaction data. He monitors Punjabi music industry social accounts in both Punjabi and English to catch tour announcements the English-language press misses by hours. Every factual claim in a guide is tagged to a primary source or direct observation, and any claim he cannot verify personally is labelled as community-reported and flagged for follow-up on the next refresh cycle. If a guide is older than six months and contains a price range, he re-checks the current box-office floor before republishing.

Articles by Raman Makkar

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