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 — 30 August
The Frames
RDS Arena
Dublin, Ireland
23 years ago tonight. 0 of 14 songs from this performance survive in the archive.
Open this concert
Today from the archive
Lies
Cadillac Palace
Chicago, United States
The Swell Season, filmed by someone who was there. A different performance appears here every day, drawn from the 924 concert recordings the archive holds.
Open the full concertRecently preserved
- Showbox Comedy and Supper ClubSeattle, United States
- Vicar StreetDublin, Ireland
- Punchestown RacecourseNaas, Ireland
- Fairyhouse RacecourseRatoath, Ireland
- WiZink CenterMadrid, Spain
The archive so far
- 1,487
- 16,465
- 866
- 165
1991 to 2026 documented so far. The performances are known to have happened; the hours are what the archive actually holds, measured from the 1,464 recordings whose length is recorded, so the true figure is a little higher.
Archive progress in detailBeyond the concerts
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.
None of it has been deposited yet. The archive knows where and when these performances happened; holding what survives of them is the work still ahead.
The media archiveStill missing
Somewhere there is a MiniDV tape of a night nobody else recorded.
1,255 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.