Shows
The archive of what you actually played — night by night, song by song.
What a show is
A show is the record of one performance: the date and venue, the songs in the order you played them (sets, encores, segues), the recordings of the night, photos and the poster, and who sat in. It is separate from the calendar: an event is a plan, a show is what happened. The planned setlist stays untouched — the show gets its own copy.
- Everyone in the band can browse and listen; members and admins edit. Guests read only.
- Shows are grouped by year under Shows in the sidebar, with filters for year, venue and a search box. A Needs reconciling badge marks shows whose setlist hasn't been checked yet.
Adding shows
- From a past gig: open the event and use Archive as show on its Show archive card. The show is dated in the event's own timezone, its songs are copied from the event's planned setlist, and the event's recordings are linked as tapes.
- Many at once: Import past gigs on the Shows page lists every past gig on your calendar that has no show yet — tick the ones to archive.
- By hand: New show for anything that never was on the calendar — the gig from 2019, the festival slot. Type the venue; an existing one is reused, otherwise it is created.
Reconciling the setlist
Reconcile turns the plan into what actually happened. It is a page of sections, not a wizard — save the setlist tonight and attach the audio next week.
- Reorder songs, move them between sets, add a set or an encore (a double encore is two encore sets), mark segues with >, add durations, covers with the original artist, and notes like “first time played”. Named sets are allowed (“the acoustic set”).
- Link every song to a track. An unlinked song still shows in the setlist, but it doesn't count toward that song's stats. The red box at the top lists them with a one-click link where a track with the same title exists.
- Covers you play more than once: when the same unlinked title appears in two shows, you're offered a lightweight track for it — confirm and every occurrence across the archive is linked.
- Planned vs played shows what you dropped from the plan and what you added; “We played it” puts a dropped song back.
- Tick Reconciled when the setlist is right.
Audio
- Tapes: in Reconcile → Audio, link the full-set, soundboard or audience recording of the night (optionally for one set).
- Slice a tape into songs on its recording page (mark where each song starts and ends). Back on the show, slices whose track matches a song are suggested — attach them all in one click. Slices without a song can be matched by set order (a guess you should check by ear). A song can also play a whole per-song recording.
- On the show page, press play on any song or Play the show to hear it end to end. Durations fill in from the audio.
Photos and the poster
Upload photos from the night (or pick them from the band gallery), caption and reorder them. Removing a photo from a show keeps it in the gallery. The poster heads the show page and its row in the list, and shows up in the gallery's Shows tab.
Sit-ins
Add guests to a show — someone from the band's people list or just a name, with their instrument. Who played on what ticks the songs each guest played on; the show page then names them under each song.
Stats
Stats on the Shows page counts the archive: shows, songs played, different songs and venues; the most played songs; openers, closers and encores; songs due for a bust-out (the longest time since they were last played); the longest performances; shows per year and your top venues. A song's own page shows its live history under Info → Played live: debut, last time played, how many shows ago, the average gap, and every performance.
Venues
Venues lists every room you've played. Rename one, add its city or website, or merge near-duplicates (“The Fox” and “Fox Theatre”) — the shows move over and missing details are kept.