OutTwo Stories

Stories from the live-music archive: the lives of songs on stage, tour histories, legendary venues and guides to going out, told with setlists, footage and data.

Tours

233 nights: the years bands lived on the road

My Chemical Romance played 233 nights in 2005. The busiest touring act we could find in the 2020s played 121. How the 200-night year made bands, and where the road-dogs went.

24 September 2026

Songs

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The life of a song on stage: debuts, disappearances, comebacks, last nights.

Songs

The song Radiohead gave away

Tears for Fears, Macy Gray, a covers band and a jukebox orchestra have kept “Creep” alive on stage. The band that wrote it hasn’t touched it since April 2018, the longest silence of its life.

23 September 2026

Tours

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Tour histories, rival tours and the years bands lived on the road.