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Lincoln Bands News Archive
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Happy New Year
31 Dec 05: Just a quick note to say thanks
to everyone out there for your support over the past year.
Its really appreciated. Here's hoping that 2006 is everything
you want it top be. Best wishes from Lincoln Bands, to the
bands, fans, promoters, reviewers and everyone else. HAPPY
NEW YEAR
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Boro-Bands
28 Dec 05: A site that's worth checking
out. Boro-Bands
is a similar site to this based in Peterborough. Along with
promoting the scene down in Peterborough, they're also keen
to help bands gig swap. So sign up to their forum, leave your
band details and you never know.
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Minor Tweaks
21 Dec 05: Have made a few minor tweaks
to the site. One being the A-Z list, which was becoming so
big, has been broken down in sections, should load quicker
now. The other major change is that out of twon bands are
now included on the main list. We've always had a few bands
from out of town included on the site, but since we went MySpaced,
we've had quite a few more asking to be included. We're still
concentrating on bands from Lincoln and events in Lincoln
or showcasing Lincoln bands, but there will be other bands
include. It seemed prety natural to allow the site to grow.
We will though be sticking mainly to bands between the Humber
and the Wash or as an arbitrary distance of 50 miles. Out
of town bands will be identified on the A-Z list with 
and their page will give their location. It might help build
up more crossover between bands in different locations. But
tha remains to be seen.
Please note:
the site is here to promote original bands
playing original music. The site takes a fair amount of time
to maintain as it is, so its unlikely that if you are a tribute/covers/club
band that we will have time to reply to your emails asking
to be included. The criteria for inclusion on the site is:
The band must predominantly play their own
material
The band must have played at least one gig
- not including those to purely friends and family
If you are a new band and your old band is
already included on the site your new band will be included
even if you have yet to play a gig.
The band must either be based in Lincoln
or (at the sites discretion) within 50 miles of Lincoln.
Any out of town bands must have a website
so that details can be verified
Its unlikely that there will be anymore updates
done until after Christmas. So all that remains is to thank
everyone for their support over the last year, and to the
bands and promoters that have worked so hard.
Merry Christmas and all the best for 2006.
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New Clubnight @ Christophers
19 Dec 05: A new Clubnight is starting
at Christophers in Lincoln, which will run once a month starting
this Friday. There will be regular sets from bands, and a
DJ set with Jim from Sonic Sounds.
The Redcoats will be performing a monthly set, as well as
other guest bands. For the first month (23rd December) it
will be the Redcoats, and one or two acoustic acts performing.
Entry is £5 and it starts at 8.
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Awesome Competition!!!
19 Dec 05: The following came through
this morning:
We are a Record Label, Music Publishing Company
and Music Production Company with Branches in Bridgetown ,
Barbados and very recently our first foreign branch office
in the UK in Lincoln, England.
We found out about your excellent website from
Matt Chapman ( Wreckset) who has done some work for us. Wreckset
also kindly performed as opening act for "Magnet Man", the
number one international artiste on our roster, at a Charity
event, Wreckset are a great bunch of guys ( the other band
who helped our charity show were Depol who we also liked a
lot!!) Check out www.magnetmanonline.com.
Magnet Man is co-owner and Managing Dirctor
of the Magnetic Image Companies.
Magnet Man's 2nd home is Lincoln where he has
a horse Farm! He commutes between Barbados and UK, now choosing
to record and produce, ( he is a top class producer) in the
UK only nowadays.
He likes to encourage and assist young acts,
he is a young singer/songwriter/ musician/producer and film
actor. Therefore we are running a 3 section competition.
It is a non-profit making competition ( three
sections) and would like you to post it on the site and help
us get contestants please. It is a great opportunity for young
bands to showcase, it is to be filmed as well. The voting
is to be partly by live audience and we will have a small
panel of experts there too.
There is a small entry/administration fee as
obviously we need to try and cover the costs of putting on
the contests southern and northern rounds, starting at the
Lincoln Drill Hall on 14th Jan,and all the expenses that will
incurr,. But the champion will recieve a fabulous prize! A
recording session PLUS they will be flown to BARBADOS to perform
at a top Venue in the sun! This will be in the summer of 2006.
There are two heats ( Nothern and Southern) Then a Grand final
early Summer 2006 )They winners will also receive good publicity
/ radio interviews and press in Barbados all handled by Magnetic
Image Artist Management Division.
We are also looking for any sponsors who may
like to assist in any way. Our record label side of the company
( Magnetic Image Records) are the main sponsors. Any sponsors
will recieve good publicity and a worthwhile package even
if just small sponsorship, all would be appreciated..
I will attach the official flyer / poster on
the next email. The flyer contains all the details in full.
Many thanks, we hope you will support this worthwhile competition
with its unique prize!
Enjuel Scheherazade
Magnetic Image Records,
Barbados and UK
Tel +246 251 4140 Barbados
UK Branch Office 0871 2267979 Cel phone (UK)
:- 07903 294810 - 24 hours
Flyer
(please print and circulate) Details
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Pre-set Addiction - New tunes coming soon
19 Dec 05: Heavy funskters Pre-Set Addiction
have spent time recording new tracks, some of which are available
on their MySpace
site and well worth a listen. They recorded at The
Lodge, in Northampton and have nothing but praise for
the place. Dan (guitar/vocals) said " we really enjoyed
ourselves. Its 3 houses joined together and its just full
of musicians that live there!! Great place and I definitley
recommend it." Worth checking out.
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Penthouse - Sleaford
17 Dec 05: There is a new venue in Sleaford,
opened this week called The Penthouse. There will be live
music every Sunday night with free entry and cheap drinks.
The first night is the auspicious date of Sunday January 1st
with 3 bands on the bill (one space left) and any bands who
would like to play at the venue should contact the promoters,
angamanagement,
as soon as possible.
The venue is also offering free practice facilities
on certain nights (again contact - Web: angamanagement,
email:
) and has plans in progress for a Battle of the Bands event
starting in March.
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Steve H hospitalised
15 Dec 05: The Captain Everything, Pele,
Catapult , Colorpool gig at The Bivouac tomorrow night (16
Dec) has been cancelled.
Following the gig last night one of the speaker
stacks fell and Steve tried to stop it. Unfortunately his
hand was trapped under the stack and caused pretty extensive
damage to one of his fingers. He was taken to Lincoln hospital
but moved to Derby this morning, where by all accounts he
is awaiting an operation.
I'm sure you will join us at Lincoln Bands in
wishing him a very speedy recovery.
Best wishes Steve from all here at LB
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The Sons Of The South
14 Dec 05: Lincoln indie rockers Sons
Of The South have changed their name to TV
Kicks
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The Embassy Row
13 Dec 05: Stalwarts of the Lincoln music
scene, The Embassy Row have changed their name to Moiety.
Look out for a new EP from them soon
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Seudonym on GarageBand.com
13 Dec 05: Seudonym's KILLING MACHINE'
has been voted Track of the Day at GarageBand.com for 24 hours
on Monday, the 19th of December, 2005 (PST) "KILLING
MACHINE" will be featured on GarageBand.com's Alternative
Rock front page so go check GarageBand.com
out.
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Rage N Love
13 Dec 05: Pop punk band 4 Play have
decided to continue but with a new name, Rage N Love. Look
out for more from them in the near future. Offshoot band Melissa
On Her Dreams have called it a day though. Adam Garrod's vocal
talents can be heard as he also step out from behind his kit
to front a new metal band call Playing Dead.
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New Promoter Looking For Local Bands
12 Dec 05: See the new promoters pages
for details of Laura Mould who
is the entertainments officer for Bishop Grosseteste College
Lincoln. Laura deals with live bands weekly but for the next
academic semester she is looking for local Lincoln bands -
already lined are up The silver Lakes, Starter and Rotary
Ten who will be playing in the SU bar. Laura wants more local
bands on so get in touch.
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Andy James
12 Dec 05: Look out for the Echo tomorrow
night, as there is a piece about Andy James, with Kelly Saxton
(who wrote the rather nice piece for this site) and Steve
Hawkins being quoted. Andy's band Thee Execution Of... had
been busy playing loads of gigs outside of Lincoln, including
regular London gigs and up in Scotland
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Sosumi Review
10 Dec 05: Sosumi have got a review on
Dirty
Zine that's well worth checking out. It's from their first
gig, which was supporting Kill Kenada at the Ferry Boat Inn,
Norwich
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Drivebytheory - New CD
07 Dec 05: drivebytheory
are releasing their new live EP this coming Monday (12 Dec).
The CD contains 7 live tracks recorded at the Bivouac on 2
Dec 05 and only costs £1 from any band member. Check out theirwebsite
at: www.drivebytheory.tk
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Gig amendments
07 Dec 05: A couple of gig amendments
for you. The first one is this coming Sunday (11th) at Martha's.
Anticure are no longer playing, but another band has been
added to the line up. Its now Fallen
Skies, The
Bombdogs and Winning By Default. Starts at 8.00pm and
costs £2.00.
The second one is The Absent Minded/The Small
Print gig at Bar Nova, Leicester on January 13th, its now
going to be at The Shed in Leicester. Line up is The
Small Print, The
Absent Minded, Shy Zandra and Glades of Pain (not sure
of the running order)
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Andy James
05 Dec 05: When we lose a friend, collectively
it’s the family we feel for and the tears we shed are for
the memories. I thought I’d take an objective moment to tell
you about someone I knew only fleetingly, but I would consider
a friend in the realms of music.
They say that he took his band to London and
set up camp in the playlist pile of John Peel; Age Baby was
just one of the many guises of Andy and reflected his personality
with great aplomb. For Andy was no regular Joe that you see
on the street and say ‘hiya’: Sometimes, he didn’t even look
at you, whilst other times he was the most gracious of fellas
and a fine example of self-deprecation. Age Baby came home
to roost I’m told because of his hatred of the industry, yet
he never stopped finding that elusive single, he did it on
his own terms…
I was lucky enough to meet him when I first
moved to Lincoln and my loss of music must have reached out
to not only him but others just like him, and these people
are still knocking about (be nice to them!). Andy knew everyone,
quite literally: some he had an opinion of, some he’d never
tell, others were simply riled by the lack of opinion he had
for anyone. He told that his band was playing the Falcon and
that I should go. Now if my memory serves me, this was about
the time that Gaz Bailey did the Falcon gigs and they really
ruled. Although a lot of politics around, he was quite secretive
about which camp he sat in and then other times he’d be totally
outlandish about his views. Either way I was and still am
a big fan of ‘Thee Execution Of…’ in which Andy exuded the
kind of rock star cachet last seen on Billy Fury, Iggy Pop,
Henry Rollins or Glenn Danzig. He used to talk quite randomly
and I think that was his schtik “Branston Pickle crisps” he
once said to me after I’d ranted on about some band or other.
But don't get me wrong, Andy James knew his music, he knew
exactly what he was on about in music, even if he didn't always
make himself clear.
It’s funny when someone’s gone because
you think to yourself “oh I wish I could tell him x,y,z”.
So here’s what I wanted to say
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“Age Baby were amazing, I found you
5 years too late”
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“You look good in that black leather
jacket”
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“Why didn’t you play out of Lincoln?”
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“Thanks for buying me that pint of
Coke that day, it was a nice thing to do to someone you
didn’t know”.
I think Kelly has summed up everyones thoughts.
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[starter] - One Huge Party
05 Dec 05: [starter]
have been selected to play at the Leicester leg of the ukbands.net
'One
Huge Party', this is a showcase night for "The UK's Most
Scorching New Bands" to celebrate the launch of the new look
ukbands.net website and the Noize Market magazine. The guys
are also playing Barracuda in Loughborough next Monday
Flyers:
One Two
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Get On AiiRadio
05 Dec 05: James is soon to be back on
air doing his internet radio show for AiiRadio
and he's hoping to put a Lincoln slant on the show. So if
you want some internet air play fill out the form at http://form.aiiradio.net,
making sure you scroll down and select James's name from the
list. Here's a good chance (and free!!) to get your music
across to people all over.
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Lincoln Bands CD Compilation
03 Dec 05: You've probably heard about
the possibility of the site producing a CD compilation of
local bands. This project is now going ahead. If you want
your band included please read this.
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The Delph Bar Pics
03 Dec 05: The Delph Bar gig on Thursday
December 1st looked to be down and out when The Selecter failed
to show up, but thanks to MCD agreeing at a couple of hours
notice to open, the night went ahead anyway and became a full
on night of Lincoln metal, indie and punk. Luckily plenty
of people stuck around and after claiming a refund on the
advertised gig settled for a night of lively homegrown music
from MCD,
[starter]
and The
Eccentrics for just a couple of quid instead. Photos of
the bands at www.shine.clara.co.uk/gigs
(Notes by Pete)
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The Wreckset - update
02 Dec 05: The
Wreckset, who are firmly ensconced in Scorpion Studios
recording an album, have now got a settled line up and are
making a push back out into the "live" arena after
a fairly lengthy lay-off. You can catch they guys tonite (2
Dec) at The Bivouac, Martha's on 13th and The Library Bar
on 16th. To whet your appetite, there's a new "Work In
Progess" demo version of Exit
Wound been added to the site today. Although it's still
being worked on, it certainly gives an indication of what
The Wreckset are about.
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