A Thousand Gigs

Every single day, all over the world, human beings perform music in front of other human beings. This happens in public and private areas, large and small, in what is probably the most widespread communal cultural activity that we engage in, and yet almost none of it is recorded. There is some information available about famous performances by major artists which occasionally includes setlists, but even this is patchy and reliant on enthusiastic fans, and the fact that it is concentrated on such a tiny subset of performances ignores the vast majority of what actually goes on. This dataset provides a tiny snapshot of some of this other activity. It contains details of the one thousand gigs I performed between 3 February 1988 and 2 February 2023, derived mostly from the database used to run my website, www.mjhibbett.co.uk, with the addition of some private data held about merchandising sales at gigs. My hope is that providing this data for analysis will encourage others to do the same, and thus start to provide a more balanced view of live music performance.

放眼全球，每日皆有人类于他人面前开展音乐演出。此类演出遍布公共与私人场合，规模不一，堪称人类参与度最广的社群文化活动之一，然而其中几乎从未被留存记录。目前仅存部分关于主流艺术家经典演出的资料，偶含演出曲目单，但此类信息既零散不全，又依赖热心歌迷的主动留存，且其仅聚焦于极小一部分演出，完全忽略了绝大多数实际发生的现场音乐活动。本数据集仅为这类未被记录的演出活动提供了一个微小的快照样本。其中收录了本人1988年2月3日至2023年2月2日期间完成的1000场现场演出的详细信息，数据主要来源于运营个人网站www.mjhibbett.co.uk所使用的数据库，并补充了部分关于演出周边商品销售的私人留存数据。本人期望通过公开此数据集供分析研究，能够激励更多人开展同类工作，从而逐步构建对现场音乐演出更为全面均衡的认知。