h8 m0dems - What's the name of your band? Are you playing in London any time soon?

London is a pretty hard place to be in a band, expect to be poor, not get anywhere without knowing "someone" and begin to hate all human life. I did it for ten years, if you're looking for a good place to rehearse I recommend Dropout,

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =170432059

the home of the aforementioned Part Chimp and many others, they have a myspace page, other good things.. Rachel and Andy at

http://www.myspace.com/silverrocketclub

Have put on loads of bands from Ted Leo, the enablers, black eyes and Noxagt, to alot of the decent UK DIY bands, Lords, PC, Joeyfat, wolves! of greece, etc.

this guy

http://howardmonk.blogspot.com/

does more folksy gigs and stuff, (if that's your bag) he's doing really well at the moment with his local nights going all over.

This venue

www.windmillbrixton.co.uk in brixton, is a great place to go and see bands, the sound sometimes sucks and it's miles from the tube, but the beer is cheap and it stays open 'til 3 in the morning. I loved it when I lived in brixton.

I moved out of London in 2004 really so I can't vouch too much for the state of affairs now. Most of my friends moved out in the past few years too, to my mind it's expensive and it grinds you down. If I were a young band I'd definitely move somewhere else (not brighton though as that's just as expensive really!). There are good people and great bands all over though.

simmo wrote:What's the name of your band?

If you've actually moved here as a band en masse, just to have better access to Europe for touring purposes, I would honestly recommend moving again. London is indeed a town run by promoters and booking agents, and it's also insanely expensive!! Move somewhere cheaper, where there are more DIY shows and a more DIY attitude.

PM me for DIY contacts for London shows.

simmo wrote:What's the name of your band?

If you've actually moved here as a band en masse, just to have better access to Europe for touring purposes, I would honestly recommend moving again. London is indeed a town run by promoters and booking agents, and it's also insanely expensive!! Move somewhere cheaper, where there are more DIY shows and a more DIY attitude.

PM me for DIY contacts for London shows.

we've moved to london cause we can get working visas here (well UK anyways) which we can't get anywhere else in europe. also they speak english which is a plus.

we also have a good friend network in london which has lead to a couple of shows but we've pretty much exhausted our options there at the moment. I have a friend who is helping us organise a couple of shows in glasgow so yeah, we're happy to travel the UK from here as well.

pming away, thanks!

oh, the band is this one
www.myspace.com/sculhazzards

scull hazards rock! i hope once you get on tour you'll come to croatia as well.

ianscanlon wrote:London is a pretty hard place to be in a band, expect to be poor, not get anywhere without knowing "someone" and begin to hate all human life. I did it for ten years, if you're looking for a good place to rehearse I recommend Dropout,

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =170432059

the home of the aforementioned Part Chimp and many others, they have a myspace page, other good things.. Rachel and Andy at

http://www.myspace.com/silverrocketclub

Have put on loads of bands from Ted Leo, the enablers, black eyes and Noxagt, to alot of the decent UK DIY bands, Lords, PC, Joeyfat, wolves! of greece, etc.

this guy

http://howardmonk.blogspot.com/

does more folksy gigs and stuff, (if that's your bag) he's doing really well at the moment with his local nights going all over.

This venue

www.windmillbrixton.co.uk in brixton, is a great place to go and see bands, the sound sometimes sucks and it's miles from the tube, but the beer is cheap and it stays open 'til 3 in the morning. I loved it when I lived in brixton.

I moved out of London in 2004 really so I can't vouch too much for the state of affairs now. Most of my friends moved out in the past few years too, to my mind it's expensive and it grinds you down. If I were a young band I'd definitely move somewhere else (not brighton though as that's just as expensive really!). There are good people and great bands all over though.

thanks for those. I've tried silver rocket a couple of times but they don't reply. I am guessing that a lot of promoters here get tonnes of bands contacting them daily about shows... I'll give the others a go though.

cheers!

The thing with Silver Rocket is that Rachel is a newly qualified actual doctor person, and as such, pretty busy, the best thing to do is go down to one of the shows and nab her or Andy (Who will be DJing after the gig) and give them a CDr, they also only do one gig a month so they get booked up in advance

PS these chaps are good

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... d=81394576

Chaos V Cosmos, they do alot of noisy/ experimental gigs

also Claire who works at Southern does

http://www.myspace.com/abadgeoffriendship

is worth talking to, they do regular gigs too. I've played for both of them, and they're both good!

ianscanlon wrote:The thing with Silver Rocket is that Rachel is a newly qualified actual doctor person, and as such, pretty busy, the best thing to do is go down to one of the shows and nab her or Andy (Who will be DJing after the gig) and give them a CDr, they also only do one gig a month so they get booked up in advance

yeah that's what I thought (about being busy, and the one gig a month thing). I was thinking of going down to the show there on friday anyways. we've played at that venue a couple of times so far and it's pretty decent. they seem like they would put on pretty ok bands as well.

B_M_L wrote:h8 m0dems - What's the name of your band? Are you playing in London any time soon?

His band - Scul Hazzards - are playing in London on May 22nd at the Grosvenor, a gig which you should go to! Not only because ony of EA's very own shall be rocking out there, but they're also playing with the thoroughly excellent Marvin - a sensual slab of Trans Am/Holy Fuck-esque goodness that can't fail to please. Yes I'm biased as I booked their tour, but ask anyone else round here who's seen 'em - they're DA SHIT.

simmo wrote:

B_M_L wrote:h8 m0dems - What's the name of your band? Are you playing in London any time soon?

His band - Scul Hazzards - are playing in London on May 22nd at the Grosvenor, a gig which you should go to! Not only because ony of EA's very own shall be rocking out there, but they're also playing with the thoroughly excellent Marvin - a sensual slab of Trans Am/Holy Fuck-esque goodness that can't fail to please. Yes I'm biased as I booked their tour, but ask anyone else round here who's seen 'em - they're DA SHIT.

Hey, OK already… I’m going.

When I mentioned this show to my girlfriend she assumed I meant The Grosvenor – as in the 5 Star luxury hotel in Mayfair. You could see her thinking Wow… What’s he doing going there? Maybe his taste in music has changed? Maybe I’ll go too. I then had to explain – No, it’s the Grosvenor pub round the corner. She won’t be coming...

Will you stop posting on the internet now and just book your own tour already. Playing in Lincoln and Coventry is not a tour… It doesn’t count unless you come to London.