newbie questions – multiblogging possibility contact form problem

Hi!
This is my first post here so – Hi all!

Anyway, I’ve recently installed WordPress on my server to use it for my band website (I needed something simple and yet efficient and my friend recommended WP). I’m happy to annouce that untill now I’ve managed to resolve all my problems thanks to some old topics from this forum and some of my own thinking ;).
I’m using the Blix theme but I’ve been customizing it as far as possible (given the fact that I really suck at HTML, CSS, and I really don’t know a thing about PHP or Sql, it is quite a miracle ;]) and I’ve come to some problems that I don’t know how to solve – well they’re not problems with WordPress or Blix… it’s just that I can’t figure out how to put some of my ideas to live on my website.

First of all there’s the contact form – as far as I understand this line:
if (@mail(get_settings(‘admin_email’)
is responsible for sending emails via the form to the admin’s mailbox – that’s fine but I’d like it to sen those email to another users email – let’s say that the user’s name is “bob” so I’ve changed it to:
if (@mail(get_settings(‘bob_email’)
but “bob” didn’t receive any email
so the question is – how can I make the form send the email to bob, or even better how should the php code look like if I want to the form to send email not to a user email (admin_email / bob_email) but to a specific email (non-user) for example: [email protected] ? Is it possible?
btw. changing admin’s email address isn’t really an option in this case…

The second and even most important thing comes down to the fact that I’m buildin a band website – one of the “pages” will have our playing dates – is there any possible way that I could extract some data from the gigs page so that it will also appear on the sidebar – for example the date of the next gig?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Cheers!

PS. the website (work in progress) is https://beta.silesian.pl (if you’re wondering what language it’s in – it’s polish :))