Archive post type by date

Hey all,

for a band website, I’m creating a post type to post their gigs, both upcoming and past. (preferentially the past ones archived by year) The post type is called “gigs” so through “www.mywebsite.com/gigs” they see a list of all the gigs. For this post type I’ve created custom write panels (but that’s not relevant now I think)

The gigs are divided through h2’s and it should look like this:

UPCOMING GIGS:
Gig 1
Gig 2

2011:
Gig 3
Gig 4

2010:
Gig 5
Gig 6

My question (it’s my first WordPress website so it may be an obvious thing:>)

The easier part – is there an easy way to read out the year of the post, and automatically put it under the relevant year’s header.

Also – it possible to get today’s date, and based on todays date, automatically put it in the “past gigs”?

Thanks!