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Performances / Mileage

70,658

Known road miles

A running, conservative estimate based on mapped tours and round trips from Ballard to Seattle and regional road shows.

54,906
Tour miles
3,970
Local miles
11,782
Regional miles
100%
Local shows mapped

This is a lower-bound estimate, not an odometer reading. It currently covers 470 of 470 Seattle performances, 61 regional road shows, and 116 mapped tour stops.

Local trips are estimated to and from Ballard, Seattle.

On the road

Mapped tours

Named runs are measured from Ballard through each mapped performance stop and back home.

54,906 tour miles 12 mapped tours
3,582 miles door to door

Gibraltar / 2014

June 2014 West Coast Tour

Eight road shows from San Francisco through Portland, followed by a Seattle homecoming at the High Dive.

San Francisco, CA → San Diego, CA → Los Angeles, CA → Tucson, AZ → Los Angeles, CA → Oakland, CA → Eugene, OR → Portland, OR → Seattle, WA

2,769
Road miles
9
Mapped stops
5,653 miles door to door

Gibraltar / 2013

Storms — Spring Tour 2013

Seattle, WA → Boise, ID → Salt Lake City, UT → Denver, CO → Wichita, KS → Columbia, MO → Chicago, IL → Lexington, KY → Cincinnati, OH → Indianapolis, IN → Missoula, MT → Portland, OR → Seattle, WA

5,640
Road miles
13
Mapped stops
1
Stops unresolved
Gibraltar Spring Tour 2013 poster listing dates from Seattle through Boise, Denver, Midwest, Missoula, Portland and Seattle.
5,504 miles door to door

Spanish for 100 / 2007

Say What You Want to Say to Me — Spring Tour 2007

Nine-show road run supporting Say What You Want to Say to Me: Denver → Wichita → Lawrence → Kansas City → Indianapolis → Louisville → Columbia → Chicago → Madison. Aaron designed the double-sided tour handbill. Photographer Ryan Schierling traveled with the band and documented the tour.

Denver, CO → Wichita, KS → Lawrence, KS → Kansas City, KS → Indianapolis, IN → Louisville, KY → Columbia, MO → Chicago, IL → Madison, WI

2,258
Road miles
9
Mapped stops
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Spanish for 100 members carrying gear into the Melody Inn in Indianapolis on June 10, 2007; venue sign is clearly visible.
Back of original four-up handbill with Dallas Observer quote and spanishfor100.com / MySpace URLs.
Front of original four-up handbill. Prints June 6 Denver, June 7 Wichita, June 8 Lawrence, June 9 Kansas City, June 10 Indianapolis, June 11 Louisville w/Tim Seely, June 13 Columbia, June 14 Chicago, June 16 Madison, and July 27 Seattle.
Full-band rooftop performance frame. EXIF camera time 2007-06-11 18:09:28; inferred ~9:09 PM Louisville local.
6,452 miles door to door

Spanish for 100 / 2006

Spring Tour 2006

Seventeen-show run from Spokane through Boise, crossing the great dive and circling the Midwest before turn back west.

Salt Lake City, UT → Aspen, CO → Denver, CO → Wichita, KS → Kansas City, MO → Omaha, NE → Des Moines, IA → Iowa City, IA → Lawrence, KS → Columbia, MO → Chicago, IL → Detroit, MI → Madison, WI → Minneapolis, MN → Billings, MT → Boise, ID

5,122
Road miles
16
Mapped stops
1
Stops unresolved
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5,616 miles door to door

Spanish for 100 / 2005

Spring Tour 2005

Salt Lake City, UT → Albuquerque, NM → Denver, CO → Wichita, KS → Lawrence, KS → Omaha, NE → Lincoln, NE → Kansas City, MO → Columbia, MO → Chicago, IL → St. Paul, MN

3,107
Road miles
12
Mapped stops
7,895 miles door to door

Spanish for 100 / 2004

Fall Tour 2004

Missoula, MT → Denver, CO → Wichita, KS → Lawrence, KS → St. Louis, MO → Chicago, IL → Columbia, MO → Omaha, NE → New York, NY → Boston, MA

4,341
Road miles
10
Mapped stops
1
Stops unresolved
1,628 miles door to door

Spanish for 100 / 2002

Sangrias First Drive Tour

Spanish for 100's first short road run: Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco followed by the Satyricon in Portland.

San Francisco, CA → Portland, OR

635
Road miles
2
Mapped stops

Outside Seattle

Road shows

Standalone Washington and Oregon performances outside Seattle that are not part of a named tour. Each is estimated as a round trip from Ballard.

11,782 regional miles 61 mapped shows
Bushwick on the Radio: The Royal Oui and Aaron Starkey Bellevue, WA 34 mi. Long Dark Moon — Brodiefest Carnation, WA 56 mi. Long Dark Moon — ShawnFest — Rockland Woods Bremerton, WA 142 mi. Long Dark Moon — The New Frontier Grill Tacoma, WA 77 mi. Human Flys — Southgate Roller Rink White Center, WA 25 mi. Long Dark Moon — Southgate Roller Rink — Oct. 28, 2022 White Center, WA 25 mi. Aaron Starkey — The Doghouse — Stanwood Stanwood, WA 99 mi. Rat Queen — Twilight Cafe & Bar Portland, OR 359 mi. The Swearengens — Venue to recover Seattle area, WA 6 mi. Oceanwires — White Center Jubilee Days — Southgate Roller Rink White Center, WA 25 mi. Oceanwires — Art on the Ave — Jazzbones Stage Tacoma, WA 77 mi. Oceanwires — Cellar Door Port Townsend, WA 234 mi. Gibraltar — The Shakedown w/ The Spider Ferns, J GRGRY Bellingham, WA 171 mi. Gibraltar — The Spud Goodman Show Tacoma, WA 77 mi. Aaron Starkey — Diana Einmo Musical Birthday Party Seattle area, WA 6 mi. Gibraltar — The Foggy Goggle @ Stevens Pass w/ The Snakebites Leavenworth, WA 237 mi. Gibraltar — Timber Music Festival Carnation, WA 56 mi. Gibraltar — Wally's Wenatchee, WA 309 mi. Gibraltar — Finapalooza @ Finaghty's Irish Pub Snoqualmie, WA 69 mi. Cramps tribute ensemble — Bellingham venue to recover Bellingham, WA 173 mi. Gibraltar — Kelly's Olympian w/ Hart & Hare, Violent Psalms Portland, OR 359 mi. Gibraltar — Gigantic Bike Festival Snoqualmie, WA 69 mi. Spanish for 100 — Darrell's Tavern w/ The Great Um, Blue Skies for Black Hearts Shoreline, WA 15 mi. The Trouble Starts — Mela Coffee Roasting Company Wenatchee, WA 308 mi. The Outlaws — Darrell's Tavern Shoreline, WA 15 mi. The Outlaws — Darrell's Tavern Shoreline, WA 15 mi. Spanish for 100 — Darrell's Tavern w/ The Navins, The Riffbrokers Shoreline, WA 15 mi. Spanish for 100 — Darrell's Tavern Shoreline, WA 15 mi. Spanish for 100 — The Woods Portland, OR 363 mi. Spanish for 100 — The Woods Portland, OR 363 mi. Spanish for 100 — New Frontier Lounge Tacoma, WA 77 mi. Spanish for 100 — Darrell's Tavern Shoreline, WA 15 mi. Spanish for 100 — Raw Space Ellensburg, WA 228 mi. Spanish for 100 — Summer Meltdown Sedro-Woolley, WA 135 mi. Spanish for 100 — The Brown Lantern Anacortes, WA 150 mi. Spanish for 100 — Winterland Bremerton, WA 142 mi. Spanish for 100 — Doe Bay Music Festival Orcas Island, WA 0 mi. Corey Passons & Aaron — acoustic/electric duo — The Squid & Ink Seattle (Georgetown), WA 20 mi. Junkmail — The Satyricon Portland, OR 359 mi. Spanish for 100 — Flowmotion Summer Meltdown Sedro-Woolley, WA 135 mi. Spanish for 100 — The Blvd. Spokane, WA 573 mi. Spanish for 100 — Snoqualmie Summit Snoqualmie, WA 69 mi. Spanish for 100 — The Brown Lantern Anacortes, WA 150 mi. Spanish for 100 — Basin Summer Sounds Ephrata, WA 354 mi. Spanish for 100 — The Jetdeck Everett, WA 52 mi. Spanish for 100 — Stanwood Tavern Stanwood, WA 99 mi. Spanish for 100 — Mootsy's Spokane, WA 571 mi. Spanish for 100 — The Brown Lantern Anacortes, WA 150 mi. Spanish for 100 — The Brown Lantern Anacortes, WA 150 mi. Spanish for 100 — Flowmotion Summer Meltdown Sedro-Woolley, WA 135 mi. Spanish for 100 — Mootsy's Spokane, WA 571 mi. Spanish for 100 — Eagle's Hall Olympia, WA 134 mi. Spanish for 100 — The 3B Tavern Bellingham, WA 173 mi. Spanish for 100 — The Tonic Lounge Portland, OR 359 mi. Spanish for 100 — Diablo's Downtown Lounge Eugene, OR 580 mi. Spanish for 100 — The 3B Tavern Bellingham, WA 173 mi. Spanish for 100 — The B-Side Spokane, WA 571 mi. Spanish for 100 — The Wetlands Eugene, OR 580 mi. Spanish for 100 — The 4th Ave Olympia, WA 132 mi. Spanish for 100 — The B-Side Spokane, WA 571 mi. Date unknown Porter Harp / The SuperChamps! — Diablo's Downtown Lounge — 2002 date unknown Eugene, OR 580 mi.

3 regional performances still need a reliable venue location before they can be counted.

Back home

Seattle miles

Seattle performances are estimated as round trips from Ballard, using verified public venue locations where available.

3,970 local miles 470 mapped shows
20

LoFi

10 shows 58 mi.
27

KEXP

4 shows 35 mi.
58

Rebar

1 shows 10 mi.
90

TosT

1 shows 3 mi.

5 remote or private-location performances are not counted as mapped trips.