diff --git a/backend/novasonic-server.js b/backend/novasonic-server.js
index 0a41b80..4029fba 100644
--- a/backend/novasonic-server.js
+++ b/backend/novasonic-server.js
@@ -315,6 +315,20 @@ app.get('/api/itunes/:endpoint', (req, res) => {
   }).on('error', e => res.status(502).json({ error: e.message }));
 });
 
+app.get('/api/events/:artist', (req, res) => {
+  const artist = req.params.artist;
+  const target = `https://rest.bandsintown.com/artists/${encodeURIComponent(artist)}/events?app_id=novasonic`;
+  https.get(target, {
+    headers: {
+      'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
+      'Accept': 'application/json',
+    }
+  }, upstream => {
+    res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+    upstream.pipe(res);
+  }).on('error', e => res.status(502).json({ error: e.message }));
+});
+
 app.get('/api/health', (req, res) => {
   res.json({
     status: 'ok', ytdlpVersion,
diff --git a/src/views/events.js b/src/views/events.js
index b06a4ad..c4b4e81 100644
--- a/src/views/events.js
+++ b/src/views/events.js
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 import { esc } from '../utils.js';
+import { S } from '../state.js';
 
 export async function fetchEvents(artistName) {
+  const base = S.cfg?.backendUrl;
+  if(!base) return [];
   try {
-    const r = await fetch(`https://rest.bandsintown.com/artists/${encodeURIComponent(artistName)}/events?app_id=novasonic`);
+    const r = await fetch(`${base}/api/events/${encodeURIComponent(artistName)}`);
     if(!r.ok) return [];
     const data = await r.json();
     if(!Array.isArray(data)) return [];
@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ export function openEventsModal(events, artistName) {
         <div class="event-venue-name">${esc(venue)}</div>
         <div class="event-venue-city">${esc(city)}</div>
       </div>
-      ${offer ? `<a class="event-book-btn${soldOut ? ' sold-out' : ''}" href="${esc(offer.url)}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">${soldOut ? 'Ausverkauft' : 'Buchen →'}</a>` : ''}
+      ${offer ? `<a class="event-book-btn" href="${esc(offer.url)}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">${soldOut ? '<span class="event-sold-badge">Ausverkauft</span>' : ''}Tickets →</a>` : ''}
     </div>`;
   }).join('');
 
diff --git a/styles.css b/styles.css
index 149cb17..aa4e76a 100644
--- a/styles.css
+++ b/styles.css
@@ -855,9 +855,9 @@ button:focus{outline:none}
 .event-venue{flex:1;min-width:0}
 .event-venue-name{font-size:13px;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis}
 .event-venue-city{font-size:11px;color:var(--text2);margin-top:2px}
-.event-book-btn{flex-shrink:0;padding:7px 14px;border-radius:20px;background:var(--accent);color:#fff;font-family:var(--font);font-size:12px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;transition:opacity .15s}
+.event-book-btn{flex-shrink:0;padding:7px 14px;border-radius:20px;background:var(--accent);color:#fff;font-family:var(--font);font-size:12px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;transition:opacity .15s;display:flex;flex-direction:column;align-items:center;gap:2px}
 .event-book-btn:hover{opacity:.85}
-.event-book-btn.sold-out{background:var(--surface2);color:var(--text3)}
+.event-sold-badge{font-size:9px;font-weight:600;opacity:.8;letter-spacing:.3px}
 
 /* ── MISC ── */
 .spinner{width:28px;height:28px;border:3px solid var(--surface2);border-top-color:var(--accent);border-radius:50%;animation:spin .8s linear infinite;margin:50px auto;display:block}