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 — 6 November
Glen Hansard
Jahrhunderthalle
Frankfurt, Germany
3 years ago tonight. 0 of 22 songs from this performance survive in the archive.
Open this concert
Today from the archive
High Hope
Charleston Music Hall
Charleston, United States
Glen Hansard, filmed by someone who was there. A different performance appears here every day, drawn from the 968 concert recordings the archive holds.
Open the full concertRecently preserved
- Isaac Stern AuditoriumNew York, United States
Beacon HallBristol, United Kingdom
Grote ZaalUtrecht, Netherlands- Union TransferPhiladelphia, United States
The Great HallToronto, Canada
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 1,531 recordings whose length is recorded, so the true figure is a little higher.
Archive progress in detailBeyond the concerts
18 November 2016 · De Roma, Borgerhout
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.
1,251 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.