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BOYS $24,200 15 8 8 1996 1989 5 WARMERS 4 18 UNREST 7 PEACE/ NATION OF ULYSSES 1 BEAT HAPPENING 1997 * Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy 1990 Innercity Youth Outreach Programs ANTI-WAR 6 12 1 1 TECH AHEAD $21,400 QUIXOTIC AfterMONORCHID School Kids CHISEL 1998 AIDS/ Central Committee for 1991 1 5 UNWOUND 7 Conscientious Objectors 8 SCRAWL 14 GAY RIGHTS GLORIUM * 1999 $19,000 1992 2 25 9 4 * 6 Washington Peace Center HOUSE 15 FLUF Lexington Peace Center a Gay Rights March 2000 1993 SHUDDER TO THINK SLANT 6 9 3 2001 HOUSING/ 1994 2 COMMUNITY/ HOMELESSNESS * 1 11 1 DUB NARCOTIC Living Center Aids Hospice RADIO/ $26,800 2002 Community for 1995 AIDS Research * Creative Non-Violence 9 1 VENUES Washington Inner City Self-Help 18 MAKE UP 4 LUNGFISH * $23,240 * BLONDE REDHEAD 1996 12 1 National Coalition for the Homeless Habitat for Humanity & Anti-Nuke Group 6 8 2 1 SHELLAC 1997 FARAQUET ACT-UP Worcester Common Ground (housing) BRANCH MANAGER * * 2 * 1998 Homeless Persons Representation Project THE EX Alexandria Tenants Association * Middlesex Interfaith Partners w/ the Homeless Emmaus Services New Space for the Aging 1999 Gilman Street Project ARCS SHOWState THE of the Union Compilation NUMBER OF TIMES BANDS 2000 PLAYED THE SAME BILL Tower Fund WTUL Radio Pirate Radio CMU Radio Station 2001 Organizations Buck (the dc space bartender)FUGAZI & UMBC Radio Station COMMUNITY/CHURCH SPACE 2002 UNCONVENTIONAL Indianapolis Assorted VENUES CLUB Fugazi often played non-tradtional venues in thier home town of This project was created by During the 1980s and 90s, in theWashington, era before D.C. They played atoutdoor 17 I found or in community myself at spaces Fugazi’s last D.C. show This is my fanzine, an obsessive documentation Carni Klirs for his thesis project as the internet, fans of punk musiclike discovered churches just as often as theyat Fort played Reno. rock Itclubs. was Here an areincendiary, powerful of a band I love, told through their own data. all the venues Fugazi played in D.C., color coded by type, and part of the Information Visualization new bands through obsessive documenters. performance. I was hooked. It’s my contribution to that legacy of precious vertically sized by number of shows at that venue. program at Maryland Institute College The mainstream music press did not cover the ephemera, the printed matter that gets Fugazi documented everything. They kept OUTDOOR SPACE of Art. To see it online, visit: majority of punk music, and it wasn’t played collected and obsessed over, or perhaps 24 SHOWS 22 ledgers. They20 recorded their1 live shows. In 2011 carniklirs.com/project/fugazi on MTV. Fans documented theirCOMMUNITY/CHURCH favorite bands SPACE OUTDOOR SPACE CLUB HOUSE perused briefly then tossed in the bin. the band put together a Fugazi Live Series through underground informational networks website that includes information on every Any data visualization project involves some that included fanzines, which contained show show they ever played. They’ve consintently subjective choices. That is especially true and record reviews, band interviews, show been adding live recordings to the archive, and for this project. I decided what data was photography, and the random musings of the are now up to more than 800 shows. There is an interesting or relevant to me, how to aggregate A VISUAL HISTORY OF FUGAZI | Designed by: Carni Klirs © 2018 creators. Fanzines were idiosyncratic, printed obsessive amount of detail on each show, such or summarize it, and how much anecdotal in limited runs, and were traded around like as how many people attended, who they played info to include. I tried to show the connections contraband. with, and a comments section where attendees between the D.C. music scene in the late 1980s Fanzines were a co-creative act. Punk is a of that show can share their experiences. to the community around me today. Several of participatory culture, in which the divide the venues Fugazi played at 25 years ago are So I decided to scrape data off of that web page between the “creators” in the bands, and the still around, still hosting benefit shows. My own and try to visualize the history of the band, to “consumers,” i.e. the fans, blurred or did not band performed at the very spot I saw Fugazi convey why they were important to me, and to exist. Fanzine culture impacted the music’s play their last D.C. show, roughly a decade later. so many others. Fugazi is a lens into a multi- reach, and led to a culture of collectors, There are young bands active today who are generational subculture that is still active today. who often held on to these fading printed only three or four degrees away from Fugazi They helped foster a community of bands documents for years. (when looking at connections between bands through Dischord Records, which was co- by shared members). Punk music is temporal & ephemeral. created and still run by Ian MacKaye of Fugazi. It represents a time & place. They only played all ages shows, and kept door These visualizations are meant to be read It exists within local & social contexts. prices to five dollars, making sure every show slowly, not glanced at. There are no high level was as accessible as possible.They decided insights, no key takeaways, but they are full of I found out about my first punk show in very early on that every local show they played small discoveries, personalized insights, details Washington, D.C. because someone at my high would be a benefit show, raising money for that may inspire or delight. Each visualization is school handed me a flyer. A black and white causes that would positively impact their city printed as a fold-out poster, and does not need photocopied quarter-sheet of paper, cryptic and marginalized communities. to be read in sequential order. and intriguing. One show led to another, and UNITED STATES SHOWS BY STATE Washington, D.C. 66 California 54 THE INTERNATIONAL Texas 37 New York 32 Florida 24 Ohio 22 FUGAZI TOUR NETWORK Pennsylvania 22 Virginia 22 Geogia 21 North Carolina 20 Washington 19 Fugazi played 1,048 shows in 372 cities, on 5 continents, and in all 50 U.S. States. Illinois 18 Maryland 17 They booked their own tours, and only played all ages shows. They carefully routed tours Wisconsin 15 Massachusetts 14 New Jersey 14 through smaller towns and countries they had not visited before. Here is a map of all Tennessee 14 Michigan 12 their shows, threaded together from origin to destination. Missouri 12 Arizona 10 Connecticut 10 LINES COLOR CODED BY YEAR OF TOUR: Minnesota 10 ‘87 ‘88 ‘89 ‘90 ‘91 ‘92 ‘93 ‘94 ‘95 ‘96 ‘97 ‘98 ‘99 ‘00 ‘00 ‘01 ‘02 ‘03 Rhode Island 9 Oregon 8 Colorado 7 Nebraska 7 Arkansas 6 Kentucky 6 Louisiana 6 Vermont 6 West Virginia 6 Hawaii 5 Indiana 5 Kansas 5 Maine 5 South Carolina 5 Utah 5 Alabama 4 Iowa 4 Oklahoma 4 Mississippi 3 New Mexico 3 Nevada 3 Delaware 2 Idaho 2 Montana 2 North Dakota 2 South Dakota 2 Wyoming 2 Alaska 1 New Hampshire 1 INTERNATIONAL SHOWS BY COUNTRY United Kingdom 66 Germany 56 Australia 44 Canada 34 Italy 32 Netherlands 30 France 27 Brazil 19 Japan 17 New Zealand 11 Austria 10 Ireland 10 Spain 10 Norway 9 Belgium 8 Scotland 8 Sweden 7 Switzerland 6 Denmark 5 Poland 5 Slovenia 3 Yugoslavia 3 Czech Republic 2 Finland 2 Hong Kong 2 Singapore 2 Spain/Basque 2 Argentina 1 Chile 1 Czechoslovakia 1 Hungary 1 Iceland 1 Malaysia 1 Portugal 1 VISUALIZING THE HISTORY OF FUGAZI | Designed by: Carni Klirs © 2018 PLAYED AT THAT VENUE THAT AT PLAYED 12 SHOWS VERTICAL HEIGHT = OF SHOWS OF = HEIGHT VERTICAL HOUSE FUGAZI & COMMUNITY/CHURCH SPACE UNCONVENTIONAL VENUES CLUB Fugazi often played non-traditional venues in thier home town of Washington, D.C. They played outdoors or in community spaces like churches just as often as they played rock clubs.