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Tour Worlds

Walkable nights from music history

Old shows you can walk into, in the rooms where they happened.

Walk into CBGB, July 15, 1991

Free entry, no sign-up. Works on a phone or a computer.

Now showing

One night is open. Pick it, and you're on the Bowery outside the club.

The view from the back of the crowd inside the CBGB walkthrough: dark figures facing a small stage lit orange, flyers covering the walls. Inside the walkthrough The Smashing Pumpkins With Hole. CBGB, 315 Bowery, New York Walk the room while the set plays. Take pictures inside and keep your ticket stub. Walk in Works on a phone or a computer. Better with headphones.
Audience recording taped by Merle Allin.

More nights are being built. New dates will be listed here as they open.

Why this exists

This site doesn't exist to profit from anyone's art.

No coverFree entry, every night

Tour Worlds rebuilds real nights from music history as places you can move around. Pick a date, come in off the street, and stand wherever you like while the show plays as it was recorded that night.

It's here to give fans a way to experience the shows, the venues and the moments they missed, and a way back to the ones they were there for.

Inside each night

The real recording

The sound is a recording made in the room that night, usually a tape made from the audience. It is never edited, reordered or replaced.

The room, rebuilt

Each venue is modeled in 3D as it stood at the time, so you can turn away from the stage and go look at the bar, the walls and the door you came in by.

The band in silhouette

Performers appear only as dark figures on the stage. Nobody's face or likeness is recreated, and the crowd around you is fictional.

Later on

The plan is to add more shows and more rooms, and to follow some bands and venues across several nights. Further out, a few famous venues may get walkthroughs of their own, with the building and its layout as the subject and no show playing.

Connect

Were you at one of these shows? Do you have a tape, photos or a flyer from a night that should be built next?

Send a note. This is also the place to write if you hold rights in anything here and want it credited differently, changed or taken down.

Your name and email are used only to reply to you and, if you tick the box, to tell you about new shows. They aren't shared or sold.