The Concert & Live-Show Log is a concert tracker for Excel and Google Sheets that logs every show’s date, venue, setlist, companions, and cost — then counts your whole live-music year for you. You leave a venue at midnight, ears ringing, certain you’ll remember every song, and a season later all that’s left is that it was a good night. This workbook holds onto every one of them: the setlist, the seat, who you stood next to, and the night itself. It’s a spreadsheet you own, not an app you rent.
It opens in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice — one .xlsx plus a one-click “Make a copy” link for a ready-made native Google Sheet. No account, no subscription, no internet required.
Your live-music year, counted for you
Open the Dashboard and read your year: shows attended, the artists and venues you’ve seen, what you’ve spent against your budget, your top shows by your own rating, and a breakdown by year and by type. Every number reads live from the other tabs — log a show or an expense, and it updates itself. It’s built to total up and screenshot as your own “shows I saw this year” wrap-up.
One row per show — with a rating more honest than a single star
The Shows tab is the heart of it: a row per concert with the date, artist, tour, venue, city, who you went with, your seat, and the ticket price. When you’ve been to a show, rate it across five lanes — Performance, Setlist, Sound & Venue, Atmosphere, and Value — and the workbook averages them into your My Score. Five smaller questions are the difference between “it was great” and actually remembering why one night beat another.
The songs you’ll want again, and the shows you’re still chasing
Some songs land harder live than they ever could on a recording. The Setlists tab keeps them — the show, the song, where it fell in the set, and why it stayed with you. And the Wishlist tab is for the shows you’re hoping to catch: the artist, where and when, the on-sale date to watch, how badly you want it, and a budget — so the next great night doesn’t sell out before you notice.
An honest count of what live music costs
The Spending Log keeps a real total — tickets, travel, lodging, merch, parking — and the Dashboard tracks this year against the budget you set, with a friendly flag when you cross it. Not to spend less; just so a great year doesn’t surprise you on the statement.
Three guides, not just a spreadsheet
It comes with a Start Here guide (how the tabs fit together), a Concert Log Playbook (building a wishlist, rating with intention, and a year-end ritual), and a Printable Concert Log for the days you’d rather hold a pen. The workbook is pre-loaded with a fictional example year so it makes sense the moment you open it — read it once, then overwrite it with your own shows.
Own it, don’t rent it
This isn’t an app that wants your history or your email — it’s a file you keep, on your own computer or in your own Drive, that will still open in ten years. It’s an instant download: the workbook, the Google Sheets link, all three guides, and a Read-Me land the moment you buy. Buy once, and it’s yours.
Want to try it first? The free Concert Log starter is a one-tab taste of the full workbook.
The example data in the workbook is fictional and illustrative — every artist, venue, and rating is invented to show the workbook in use. This is a personal record-keeping template, not professional or purchasing advice, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by any artist, venue, or promoter.
