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 — 22 September
The Swell Season
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Portland, United States
1 years ago tonight. 4 of 21 songs from this performance survive in the archive.
Open this concert
Today from the archive
Bird of Sorrow
Vicar Street
Dublin, Ireland
Glen Hansard, filmed by someone who was there. A different performance appears here every day, drawn from the 936 concert recordings the archive holds.
Open the full concertRecently preserved
Levitt Pavilion DenverDenver, United States- Union TransferPhiladelphia, United States
Trinity College DublinDublin, Ireland
Terasa Jizdarny Prazskeho HraduPrague, Czechia
SPACEEvanston, United States
The archive so far
- 1,494
- 16,546
- 872
- 169
1991 to 2026 documented so far. The performances are known to have happened; the hours are what the archive actually holds, measured from the 1,491 recordings whose length is recorded, so the true figure is a little higher.
Archive progress in detailBeyond the concerts
11 July 2015 · Cork Docklands, Cork
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.
1,260 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.