https://www.biffyclyro.com/map.htm

The release of ‘Revolutions // Live at Wembley’ is a celebration of Biffy Clyro’s incredible live shows. The band is one of the hardest touring acts in the UK and we wanted a way to showcase this.

Following the success of the Awesome As Fuck Map I had built for Green Day, we decided that a similar project would be an ideal addition to biffyclyro.com.

Team Biffy, the members’ area of the website, already has a lot of amazing user generated content, thanks to the system developed by Isle Interactive. I set Richard Copping and Steven Moore the task of using that content to create an amazing visualisation of Biffy’s worldwide tour history.

Adding all the tour dates to a map raised a significant issue – every venue Biffy Clyro has ever played at would need to be marked on the map. So we faced the massive task of finding latitude and longitude coordinates for a very long list of venues. Faye Turnbull, our digital intern at the time, took on the bulk of the work, with help from Cassie Burge and Duncan Pelham. They worked through the very long list of venues and found the coordinates on itouchmap.com/latlong.html. I worked through adding a lot of older tour dates and then our new intern Jonathan Pumphery took over, adding in missing dates and making sure the site stays up to date.

Steven Moore’s work on the map was top class, delivering exactly what I had in mind.

We launched the map with a competition incentivising fans to add their content to the page. Biffy fans who upload their content can win a range of Biffy stuff, including signed boxsets, tote bags, posters and beanies. A few lucky fans can also win tickets to an exclusive screening of the live album, where Biffy will participate in a Q&A session as well as playing an acoustic set. The promotion encouraged a lot more fans to join Team Biffy, and the map was swiftly populated with awesome content, immortalising Biffy’s epic live shows and extensive tour history.