Preserve the concerts, the recordings, the moments.
A memorial archive of the live history of Glen Hansard, The Frames and The Swell Season — built by fans, for fans. Every night that can still be reconstructed belongs here: setlists, tapes, photographs, ticket stubs and the memories of the people who were in the room.
On this day — 7 October
Glen Hansard
Docks
Hamburg, Germany
11 years ago tonight. 0 of 18 songs from this performance survive in the archive.
Open this concert
Today from the archive
Seven Day Mile
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Dublin, Ireland
The Frames, filmed by someone who was there. A different performance appears here every day, drawn from the 963 concert recordings the archive holds.
Open the full concertRecently preserved
The Great HallToronto, Canada
Masonic AuditoriumSan Francisco, United States
3ArenaDublin, Ireland
Great Stage ParkManchester, United States- Sala CapitolSantiago de Compostela, Spain
The archive so far
- 1,494
- 16,554
- 872
- 176
1991 to 2026 documented so far. The performances are known to have happened; the hours are what the archive actually holds, measured from the 1,524 recordings whose length is recorded, so the true figure is a little higher.
Archive progress in detailBeyond the concerts
27 April 2019 · Casino de Paris, Paris
Not everything belongs to a concert
Interviews, soundchecks, radio sessions, busking, backstage moments and photographs whose night nobody remembers. They are held in the archive with their context intact — including the material still waiting to be identified.
The photograph beside this text is today's choice from 273 concert photographs preserved by contributors. A different one appears here every day.
The media archiveStill missing
Somewhere there is a MiniDV tape of a night nobody else recorded.
1,252 known performances have no surviving recording in the archive at all. If a tape, MiniDisc, phone, hard drive or shoebox of photographs has been sitting in a drawer, it can still be preserved.