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Keeping score since 2013

About loudmemories

A concert is over in a couple of hours and the memory of it fades a lot slower if somebody writes it down. That is the whole idea, and it has not changed since the first version of this site. What has changed is everything below.

How we got here

The story so far

  1. 2013

    myconcertlist.com goes live

    The site opened in October 2013 with one simple goal: to let people remember every concert they had ever been to. No charts, no discovery, no rating scale yet - just a place to put the gigs down before they slipped away.

  2. 2014

    Out into the world, then a few more reasons to stay

    The first real marketing push went out in April 2014. Once people were actually using the site, it grew past a bare list: sharing memories about a concert, rating it, and marking the artists you follow all arrived in the years after.

  3. 2018

    A rebrand, and the first major redesign

    By October 2018 the goal itself had changed. Remembering a concert and writing about it was not enough on its own - we wanted every concert logged here to become part of something bigger: our own statistics, built from everybody's nights out. Concerts are loud, and concerts are memories, mostly good ones, so myconcertlist.com became loudmemories.com. The rebrand came with a full redesign of the site, though the core of it - log a concert, rate it, remember it - stayed exactly what it had always been. User experience got the attention after that: small features, one at a time, for the next few years.

  4. 2025

    The quiet year

    Progress nearly stopped. The site kept running, the archive kept growing one logged concert at a time, but not much changed and for a while we considered leaving it there.

  5. 2026

    Starting over, on purpose

    Instead of winding down, we decided to rebuild loudmemories properly and take the user experience to a level it had never been at. That redesign is what the site runs on now, and section two below is where its major pieces - and everything that follows it - get written down.

What changed, and when

Major updates

These are the era-sized ones - the changes that altered what the site is. Everything that has shipped since, feature by feature, is on the news page.

  • 2026Redesign

    The 2026 redesign

    Every page on the site was redesigned rather than reskinned. What is different since the 2018 look:

    • The separate pages for browsing every artist, every concert and every festival are gone, along with the old venues and genres lists. In their place: the archive, discover and charts.
    • The archive is where you search and browse the whole record - by decade, by country, by venue, what people have written, and where the record still has gaps.
    • Discover is built from your own journal rather than everybody's: artists you have seen who are coming back near you, festivals worth the trip, artists and cities you have never logged, and the blind spots in what you have seen so far.
    • Charts turns everyone's logging into one set of numbers - the most-seen artists, the highest-rated nights, the busiest venues, and how many concerts have been logged by year.
    • A new visual design across the whole site, front page to profile settings.
    • A choice of theme - dark, light, or matching whatever your device is set to.
    • Faster pages, especially the archive, the journal and artist pages, which were the slowest on the old design.
    • A clearer journal: your memories, favourites and profile are easier to find and easier to read.
    • More say over your own data: closing your account now lets you choose whether your reviews and ratings stay in the archive without your name on them or leave with you, and your whole journal can be taken out at any time as a PDF or a spreadsheet.
    • Better accessibility throughout - readable contrast in both themes, and screens that work properly with a keyboard or a screen reader.
    • General cleanup under the hood, so the site keeps getting quicker and steadier rather than slower over time.
  • 2026Accounts

    What closing your account takes with it

    Closing your account now always removes your photographs, set out in full in the privacy policy. Your reviews and your ratings are still yours to leave behind with no name on them, but a photograph is as often of you and whoever you went with as it is of the stage, so it goes either way - off the server as well as out of the galleries.