£12 a month, stated before any benefit.

Why we built this fan membership page

The Church has one of the most dedicated and long-standing fan bases in alternative rock. These are not casual listeners. They are collectors, concert regulars, and people who have been following the band for decades. The Nightfriends membership page needed to convert that existing deep loyalty into a monthly financial commitment without the page feeling like a commercial transaction.

The approach was the same as with The Airborne Toxic Event’s Medici page: build the page around benefits that each segment of fan values most, maintain the concert aesthetic throughout, and make the “Join Us” CTA feel like a natural extension of the fan’s existing relationship with the band.

The specific challenge for The Church is that their audience skews toward long-term, highly engaged fans who have been burned by merchandise drop culture and streaming platforms that pay artists almost nothing. The Nightfriends membership is positioned as a direct support mechanism, joining is a way for fans to maintain the band they love. That framing adds moral motivation alongside the practical benefits.

Waseem Bashir CEO, Apexure

"Legacy band fan memberships are a different conversion proposition than new artist memberships. The Church's fans aren't discovering the band, they've been fans for years. The page doesn't need to introduce the band or build awareness. It needs to give fans who already want to support the band a compelling, structured way to do that. The benefits are almost secondary to the identity statement of joining."

Design decisions

The hero projects ‘nightfriends’ in stylised script on a dark background with purple-toned concert photography

The typography choice for “nightfriends”, lowercase, flowing, matches the aesthetic of a band that has always prioritised atmosphere over spectacle. The purple concert lighting in the background photo creates visual continuity with the membership name and suggests the intimate, nocturnal feeling that longtime Church fans associate with the band’s live experience.

Each benefit section uses its own full-width concert photograph

Presale Tickets gets a crowd-at-venue image. The Exclusive T-Shirt shows the merchandise laid flat against a dark background, a retail-quality product shot that communicates tangible value. Early Entry gets a performance-from-stage-perspective image showing the crowd. Rare Tracks and Video gets an intimate rehearsal or session-style image. Each photograph is chosen to visualise the specific experience the benefit delivers, not just to look attractive.

The Rare Tracks section shows a music player interface with visible, named tracks

“Love Phantom [Unreleased – Mix 2.5] 1:27 · Worldless [Exclusive New Studio Track] 3:37 · Disarm [Live in Annapolis, 2010 – Smashing Pumpkins Cover] 3:49 · Identity Theft [Unreleased – Mix 1] 4:44.” These are real track titles, unreleased, live, and cover recordings that only a member can access. For a Church fan, seeing “Smashing Pumpkins Cover” or “Unreleased Mix 2.5” triggers genuine excitement. That excitement converts. A generic “access exclusive audio content” description does not.

The “Join Us” CTA uses the same pink accent colour throughout the page

In a near-black environment, the pink CTA is the only consistently warm colour. It guides the eye through the page’s conversion mechanism without competing with the atmospheric photography. The colour maintains visibility without the aggression of red or the casualness of green.

The top bar carries the price before any content

“Unlock exclusive access to Nightfriends. Join for £12/month.” This front-loaded pricing sets expectations before the emotional investment of reading the benefits. The fan who reads the price and continues is pre-qualified. The fan who bounces at £12/month would have bounced after the benefits section anyway, surfacing the price early saves both parties time.

Trust architecture

Layer 1: Named membership with visible pricing upfront

The Nightfriends name creates an identity anchor. This is a named community, not an anonymous tier. The £12/month price in the top bar establishes transparency as a brand value before the visitor has read a word of benefits copy.

Layer 2: Concert photography as experience proof

The live photography across all four benefit sections shows The Church in performance contexts, onstage, in rehearsal, with crowds. These images are not aspirational stock photography; they are documentation of real performances. For a fan who has been to Church shows or wishes they had, the images confirm that the membership connects to a living, active band.

Layer 3: Tracklist preview as exclusive content validation

The visible named tracks in the Rare Tracks section are the most tangible proof that the membership’s exclusive content is genuinely exclusive. A fan who sees “Unreleased – Mix 2.5” next to a track title understands immediately that this is unavailable anywhere else. That unavailability, the knowledge that non-members cannot access it, activates the exclusivity drive that membership models depend on.

Waseem Bashir CEO, Apexure

"Music membership retention is built at the point of joining. If the first thing a new Nightfriends member receives makes them feel the decision was worth it, they stay. That means the joining experience (the welcome email, the first exclusive track, the first presale notification) has to deliver on everything the landing page promised. We always advise clients on the post-conversion journey, because a perfectly converting page that leads to a disappointing membership experience just creates churned subscribers."

What we would test today

1. Add a testimonial from a long-term member

A quote from a fan who has been a Nightfriends member for multiple years, “I’ve been a member since the first tour. The presale access alone is worth it.”, would convert fans who are considering but hesitant by providing peer social proof from someone who has remained subscribed over time. Retention testimonials are more valuable than sign-up testimonials on membership pages because they answer the implicit “will I still want this in six months?” question.

2. Test a “Your first exclusive track” preview play

Allowing a prospective member to hear the first 30 seconds of an exclusive track, behind a “Join to hear the full version” gate, would convert the music-driven segment by letting them experience the quality of the exclusive content before committing. A preview that feels premium signals that the full library is worth the membership.

3. Surface the member count

“Join [number] Nightfriends” in the hero would give the membership community a visible scale that the current page doesn’t provide. Church fans know the band has a dedicated following, seeing a membership community number confirms that the investment is shared by peers.

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Analysed by Waseem BashirFounder and CEO, Apexure

Waseem founded Apexure in 2015 and has led its work on 3,000+ pages for 300+ clients since. He writes about what the team sees after the click, which is pages, forms, tracking and the systems behind them.