ABOUT US

ShowMeTheSetlist.com is a new web site that enables users to catalog the music concert experience like never before. The web site allows users to create individual pages for each live show. Concert-goers post song setlists, discuss and review performances, as well as create online galleries full of photos, videos, scanned ticket stubs, gig posters, actual setlists and more. It’s like creating a virtual scrapbook page for each show, except much cooler.

What is a setlist and why should I care?

A setlist is the list of songs that a band or musical artist played during a particular performance. If you're paying for a concert ticket, it'd be nice to know what a band has been playing. It's really the product you are paying for. Show Me The Setlist is creating the platform to organize setlists and create an online concert history for any artist.

A setlist also refers to the physical document that lists the songs that a band or musical artist intends to play during a specific concert performance. Hand-written or printed, on paper, cardboard, or whatever else, it is usually taped to the stage, or somewhere the musicians can see it. The setlist has become an iconic part of music history. The physical setlist written by an artist is a treasured souvenir.

Why is this web site awesome?

First of all, the web site is a wiki. That means all the content is user created. Therefore, if you don’t like the site, blame yourself, your family and your friends and tell them to get cracking. Just don’t blame us, we like the site. If your favorite artist or venue doesn’t have any entries, that’s because no one has created them yet. You can be the first! You don’t even need to know the full setlist or have more than one picture/video or item to upload. That’s the beauty of a wiki. The community will help you out to create a complete setlist or make the online gallery fuller. Behold the powers of mass collaboration.

Beyond setlists, the web site also allows concert-goers to create a virtual scrapbook page of each show. I know, a scrapbook sounds lame, but this site is clearly awesome, so excuse my poor word choices. Do you prefer “gigography”? I don’t. Regardless, your memories will be preserved through more than just song titles. Photos, gig posters, ticket stubs, physical setlists and more are scanned and uploaded to the site by you. You can link videos from youtube.com too. Also, feel free to review or comment on any show you’ve been to and some you haven’t.

I like your logo on the home page, the "rock horns." Who made it?

The logo is courtesy of Belton Joyner a.k.a. GoofyTooth. You may contact him at goofy-tooth (at) hotmail.com.

Why is your name so long? ShowMeTheSetlist.com was the best you could come up with?

I am going to blow your mind when I tell you why the name “Show Me The Setlist” was really chosen. The word “Show” is a double entendre. It refers to both the verb meaning “make visible” and the noun referring to a concert. Trippy, huh? Next time you type our five-word, sixteen-letter domain into your browser, remember that and you’ll smile with appreciation.

Actually, just bookmark the site.

I’m pumped, how do I contribute content?

Well, because we’re such swell guys, there is currently no need to even register for the site. Just click “add a setlist” and you’re ready to go.

Here’s a sample entry:

Artist: Ozzy Osbourne
Date: 11/18/2007
Venue: Key Arena
Location: Seattle, WA
Tour/Other Acts: Rob Zombie

Setlist:

I Don’t Wanna Stop
Crazy Train
Suicide Solution
Mr. Crowley
Not Going Away
Into The Void
Road To Nowhere
Fire in the Sky
Bark at the Moon
Guitar Solo (Z. Wylde)
I Don’t Know
Here For You
I Don’t Want to Change the World

Encore:
Mama I’m Coming Home
Paranoid
Iron Man
Sweet Leaf
Children of the Grave

How To Write Up a Proper Setlist:

  1. List whole names of songs as best you can.
  2. List songs in order as best you can.
  3. If the songs are not in the correct order, which can be very difficult to remember, please denote something at the end of the entry in parentheses such as (may be out of order) or (first song and last four are in order, others are not).
  4. List all songs you remember being played.
  5. If you are missing a song(s), please denote it in order with a "Song Missing", "New Song" or whatever the reason is you do not know the song(s).
  6. No need to number the list (yes, I know this list is numbered).
  7. Please write the setlist as shown in the sample with each song taking up one line. It looks nice that way.
  8. Do not clutter the setlist with a lot of other details, that’s what the comments/reviews section is for. However, feel free to denote particularly relevant details such as if the song is a cover or if something truly interesting happens. Write information in parentheses following the song or use asterisks and write information at the bottom.
  9. Use an arrow if one song is played directly to another one.
  10. If there is an intermission or a break in the concert that is not an encore, denote it with a dashed line: -------------------------------.
  11. To denote an encore (the extra few songs an artist plays at the end of the concert after they pretend to be done or leave), please refer to the sample entry. Simply leave a line between the last song of the set before the encore and the word “Encore:” as you see above. Then, simply write the songs of the encore directly under “Encore:” with each song still taking up its own line.

After that, you can leave comments/reviews and post pictures, videos, scanned ticket stubs, gig posters, actual setlists and more! Then go write up another setlist. This list goes to 11!

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