This site helps you catalogue every gig you’ve ever been to

The days of the shoebox under the bed filled with Polaroids and ticket stubs are all but over with the advent of Concert Archives, an interesting platform dedicated to archiving all the gigs you’ve ever been to – and showing them all off to your friends, of course.

The basic premise is that you upload dates, bands, and venues of any shows you go to, and begin an archival list of your past gigs – but if you really delve you can find a number of very cool features.

There’s a gig search engine if you are a little sketchy on the details (I can’t imagine too many people can pinpoint the exact day, month or even venue where they saw Ben Lee in 2004), an automatic set-list compiler so you can remember which song Springsteen played during his fifth encore, and concert pages for various gigs – all compiled from information shared by other users.

Once you search for a certain show, you can see set-lists, videos, and photos posted by other concert goers, add friends who were at the shows with you, and even reminisce about the set with others who were there via a comments section and chat feature.

Hopefully we will begin to see the re-connecting of people who met years ago at a show, had an amazing night, and then went their separate ways. Imagine if a couple who met at a Beach Boys gig in 1970, shared a stolen kiss, and never saw each other again managed to find each other through Concert Archives, and then live happily ever after? Wouldn’t it be nice?

One quibble though – it needs a name change for this platform to really take off. Concert Archives is fairly dry.

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