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.全球范围内，人类每日均会在他人面前进行音乐演奏。此类演出涵盖公共与私人场景，规模不一，或许是人类参与度最广的社群文化活动之一，但其中几乎未被留存记录。目前仅有关于主流艺人知名演出的部分信息，偶含演出曲目单（setlist）；但此类信息不仅零散不全，且依赖热心粉丝留存，同时因仅聚焦于极小比例的演出，完全忽略了实际发生的绝大多数音乐演奏活动。本数据集仅为此类未被记录的演出活动提供了一个极小的快照样本。本数据集收录了我在1988年2月3日至2023年2月2日期间举办的1000场音乐专场演出（gig）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，并补充了部分记录演出周边商品销售的私人数据。我期望通过公开此数据集以供分析，能够鼓励更多人分享同类数据，进而逐步构建对现场音乐演出更为全面均衡的认知。