Stats: Percentage Of Gigs In Each City, By Year
This shows the percentages of gigs each year that happened in specific cities:
The most interesting thing to me about this graph is to see which cities have fallen IN and OUT of favour (or, to put it another way, which ones have stopped letting me back). WINCHESTER, for instance, was a major stopping off point for me in 2002-2004 but has since fallen completely away, largely because Mr Ray Dann no longer lives there! Meanwhile Brighton and Cambridge have appeared from NOWHERE to become regular venues for ROCK, London, Leicester and Sheffield have remained pretty constant throughout, and Birmingham and especially DERBY seem to have withered away whilst old favourites in the North like Hull and Glasgow OSCILLATE.
The other FACT of FASCINATION about this particular graph is how much more STRIPEY it becomes. For the first few years I'm playing in only a few different places, but as time goes by MORE colours get added to the bar as I find more kindly souls willing to put me on. INTERESTINGLY i actually played in MORE different places in 2005 than in 2006, as last year i tried to CONSOLIDATE a bit and go BACK to places I'd already played in. This ties in with the increase in VALIDATOR ACTIVITY this year - we have a (very flexible, but still VALID) RULE that The Validators should only play in places that I've been to before to do a SOLO gig. It doesn't always work out quite like that, but we do try to keep to it, so as to minimise the number of times The Vlads have to travel cross-country to places where nobody wants to see us. THUS the FACT that The Vlads were gigging more meant that, overall, I was playing in LESS new cities. Aren't statistics FUN?
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