Scarlet Mist, the ethical face-value ticket exchange for gigs and festivals, has relaunched. Four passionate gig-goers have helped to get the site back online, and just in time for the summer festivals.

Scarlet Mist provides a free service for music fans with spare tickets for an event. It lets people trade tickets with one another at face value or less and represents a community that resents ticket touts,  believes in collaboration and mutual help and campaigns to change the law to prevent profiteering and greed from ticket reselling.

The four-strong team have relaunched the site as quickly as possible, but a full rebuild and redesign is planned which will be ready before Christmas. The team consists of:-

• Richard Marks, founded the site in 2004, and works as a hospital doctor. Richard is passionate and enthusiastic about everything that Scarlet Mist stands for.

• Peter Main, a business consultant in finance and also director of a not-for-profit children's community nursery.

• Mark Vick, a web developer with twenty years experience - a man of ethics who was actively involved with the Hackney housing cooperative movement back in the day. He is a keen guitar player and has played in a number of bands over the years.

• Niall Barclay, by day he is a structural engineer, but by night, his real passion is live music. He attended 15 gigs last month and with a projected figure of 100 gigs for this year alone, much of Niall's time is spent in the battle to secure tickets, often, in the past, with the help of Scarlet Mist. Niall has strongly held views on ticket "resale" sites and profiteering at music fans’ expense - views that aren’t suitable to be expressed in polite company!

Welcome back to the Mist. www.scarletmist.com