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Band Photographer
31 May 06: In a band? Want some photos? Check out Matt Connell. Matt offers live and promotional photography for bands and individual artists. Charges are very reasonable for both live or location shots and includes any manipulation of digital images and dark room work. Matt's site is /www.myspace.com/mattconnellphotography
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The Small Print gigs and album update
29 May 06: The Small Print continue their incredible pace with a number of gigs dotted about the county, plus a biggie on home turf. TSP are the only band from Lincoln at this year's Lincoln Water Festival. The guys are opening the show and will be followed by Captain (London), New Rhodes (Bristol), Model Morning (Nottingham), White Light Parade (Leeds). The trio are also back in ICE studios, with Steve Hawkins at the helm over the weekend of 3rd/4th June, in the penultimate session for their forthcoming album " If You're Not in Love You're Ugly"
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This Summer's Festivals
27 May 06: Two local festivals have announced line ups and dates for this summer. EcoFest, now in its tenth year will run from 16 - 18 June and includes Horace X, Recruit, Karl Svarc,The Bad Apples and loads more plus a singer/songwriter competition, workshops and stalls. For full details have a look at the website: www.woldscollective.co.uk
The Global Village Peace Gathering will be running again this year, following the success of last year's event. Running over the weekend of 14 - 16 July bands include The Slimline Papas, Kensal Rise, Pink n Ruby plus more. There's also enough other activities to keep you occupied including Thai Chi, yoga, Theatre Of Life and circus skills. Further details can be found at /www.gvpg.org/
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Tourdates.co.uk - New gig listing site
24 May 06: Got sent details of a brand new gig listing site that bands might be interested in sending in their details to and fans might want to have a look trhough and see whats coming up. This is the promo blurb:
"Tourdates.Co.UK is a new online gig listing service, devoid of vested interests like record labels, media empires and ticket agencies, which covers all the best events and gives Signed & Unsigned talent Equal billing; we wouldn’t be worth our salt if we didn’t offer downloads too, so we do, all of the unsigned acts can set up a free profile and either Sell or Give their music to the world; there’s plenty of other stuff like personal playlists and some great innovations planned but the only way to find out is to use it…"
Check out/sign up for the site at www.tourdates.co.uk
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Clarity Sound Systems
24 May 06: Been advised of a new (to us) PA Hire company in town. Clarity Sound Systems (in association with White Room Music and Studio 134), has been set up to provide Lincoln with quality and affordable PA hire. Clientele include; Bravekid, Simply Chris Like, Sugarcubes, Skindred, My Passion, Panic Cell, Forever Never, Sonic Sounds, Vinyl Collide, The Rays, White on White, Defnation and many more. Check out CSS's site www.myspace.com/claritysoundsystems for more details.
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Bravekid Competition - Win tickets!!
23 May 06:
BraveKid are holding a competition giving you good folk the chance to win free entry to both of their bank holiday weekend gigs. The competition is so easy to enter, you might as well give it a go, you might win and catch some excellent bands for free.
To enter:
To enter the Levity comp (four pairs of tickets up for grabs to see Innocence Or Otherwise, Token Of My Affection, CockYerLeg, Dekedence and Radicus at Christophers on May 27th) email the words 'yes tar very much' to contact@bravekid.co.uk.
To enter the Schlinky Pinky comp (four pairs of tickets to see Schlinky Pinky, Chihuahua Massacre, Rigollo, and Rockin' Bob at The Duke Of Wellington on May 28th) email the words 'i love
rockin bob' to contact@bravekid.co.uk. For both comps include your name/alias and email address in the email.
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The Idlers summer Tour
23 May 06: Continuing the trend of Lincoln bands sorting out a summer tour, The Idlers have announced a thirteen date tour for July. The guys will be playing London, Leeds, Cambridge, Newcastle plus other venues around the country. The band is also in talks with a record company about a deal, more news of that will be forthcoming soon. Check out The Idlers ebsite for more info. www.theidlers.com or click here for list of tour dates
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I Was A Cub Scout recording and tour
22 May 06: New Lincoln band I Was A Cub Scout (which features William Bowerman from 16 Hours) are due to record tracks for a 7 inch vinyl release. The recording is due to take place in June and the finished product should be available around July time. IWACS are touring in August, playing Leeds, Cambridge and London and more.
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MCD Album and Tour
22 May 06: Local punks MCD have just completed recording a ten track album at the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford. The tracks have all been mixed and are ready to go for duplication. The foursome have a tour lined up in July taking in Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Newcastle and more plus two gigs in one day at The Farm in Chapel St Leonards and The IBar in Grimsby. MCD are also to feature on a punk compilation, but the details are a bit sketchy at the moment.
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[starter] back up and running
22 May 06: [starter] are back out gigging after installing a new drummer to replace Kav who moved to Northampton recently. The guys are at Christophers on 9th June and The Vine in Leeds on 30th June. Look out for more dates soon
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Eastroad News
20 May 06: Sleaford based Indie outfit, Eastroad have a new drummer. The previous drummer, Steve has moved on and been replaced by Grantham based Ben McEntegart. The spilt was amicable and Eastroad wish Steve all the best for the future. And the future seems bright for Eastroad, not content with running the monthly Escalator nights at Christopher's they're out gigging, playing the Pointon Festivals and have secured a prestigious slot at Guilfest, a three day event in Guildford boasting acts such as The Stranglers, the Wonderstuff and Billy Idol at this years festival.
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Knock Out Kaine - Website goes live
20 May 06: Rock n roll selaze merchants, Knock Out Kaine have a brand new website, worth checking out. Visit www.knockoutkaine.com for all the latest news and salacious gossip from the Kained Krew. And we here at Lincoln bands have it on good authority that Sleaze is the new black!
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Jingle - Urgent
16 May 06: LincolnToday is appealing for a jingle from local bands. It needs to be 10-seconds long, up-beat and include the words LincolnToday.co.uk. As well as it going on Lincoln Todays podcast, it is also going to be on LincsFM for three-months as an advert.
If any bands are interested they should contact Lincoln Today ASAP as we need the jingle by the 26th May. For more details they can contact Sian on siancartwright@jpress.co.uk or leisure@lincolntoday.co.uk. Alternatively send any CDs to the address below.
Sian Cartwright
Internet Reporter (Lincoln)
Lincolnshire Newspapers
345 High Street
LINCOLN
LN5 7DQ
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Bravekid Gigs
16 May 06: Bravekid has announced a couple of rather eclectic, fun gigs over the coming bandk holiday. Saturday sees the second "Levity" at Christopher's with Innocence Or Otherwise (Norwich),
CockYerLeg,
Token of My Affection, Radicus (Peterborough) and
Dekedence (Wakefield). Sinday its over to the Duke for three more bands Schlinky Pinky,
Chi Hua Hua Massacre,
Rigollo and the coup of the year, the Legend that is Rockin Bob.
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More Anga
15 May 06: Angamanagement have now agreed to run three band gigs on most Thursdays and Fridays at The White Hart in Melton Mowbray. If any bands fancy a slot contact Rob. Check available dates on www.angaman.com
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More Indie Nights
15 May 06: The Indie night at The Glasshouse last Thursday (May 11) was quite a success, so much so that Chris (from The Idlers) and Rory (from Rotary Ten) are doing same thing again this coming Thursday! They are hoping to make it a regular event. They do a night at The Amber Lounge @ The Nags Head in Sleaford monthly, the next one is June 4th,
Free entry, 9pm til late! normally around 1am. They aim to play every request, no matter how random, if they have them!
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PA / Lighting Company
10 May 06: Have recieved the following infomation that you may find useful.
"We are a newly formed company called Forefront Productions Ltd, We
provide Tour grade Sound Reinforcement Systems for live bands and DJ's
currently supplying anything from 600watt PA for Pubs and up to 12,000
Watt PA suitable for Large Venues and Festivals.
We can also provide Lighting Systems and also have small Recording
Studio Facilities.
We are based in Newark on Trent so we have easy links to Lincolnshire" You can conact Forefront Productions by:
Phone/Fax: 01636 707396,
Mobile: 07881 816586
Email: mark@forefrontproductions.co.uk
Web: www.forefrontproductions.co.uk
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The Farm Needs You
10 May 06: The Farm in Chapel St Leonards have suffered a set back in their attempt to buy the place outright. They have however come up with a novel idea in their bid to secure one of Lincolnshire's favourite venues, and you can help. Have a look at the attached (Word doc) and help if you can
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Band Wanted
10 May 06: Angamanagement who are currently running nights at The Penthouse in Sleaford, Christopher's in Lincoln and The White Hart in Melton Mowbray, need a band to complete the line up at The Penthouse on July 2nd with The Idlers and Cool Tapes. The Sunday nights at The Penthouse are very well attended and have had good reports from the bands that have played there. This slot is the only one available until mid-August. If your band is interested, contact Rob at angamanagement@hotmail.co.uk
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Changes at RaW
10 May 06:Come June Simply Chris's RaW night at The Cell will be rebranding itself. They will be moving the hip-hop in the downstairs room to a monthly Friday and will replace it with RaW Acoustic Sessions. If there are any bands that
would like a cheaky acoustic gig or indeed any acoustic artist(s) that
Simply Chris does not know, send an email to RaWAcoustic at
rawacoustic@simplychrislike.com
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Gid Leaves For No Reason
10 May 06: Phil Gidman (Gid) has left For No Reason. Gid may look to another project in the future but is taking time out for the moment. FNR are to carry on and hope to be releasing new material soon
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Bench Press Promotions
02 May Apr 06: Had word of a new promo company starting up in Lincoln and Newark.
"Bench Press Promotions are a press and promotions company based in Lincoln run by Eddie from Still Life and Clare from Lyra. Bench Press sign on bands and make up promotional packs which include press releases and press versions of bands cds and send them to various magazines, reviews and radio stations to get the band heard and to get them some vital recognition. Bench Press are also looking into starting a club night in Newark and trying to get some kind of label together. For more information on Bench Press you can visit their site at www.myspace.com/benchpresspromo
You can get in touch with Bench Press via that website and see what they could offer your band in the way of promotion."
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Christopher's Pics
02 May 06: Roving photographer, Pete, went along to Christopher's last Saturday night. Photos of the night can be found on his website www.shine.clara.co.uk/gigs
Pete resume of the night goes: "It was three bands for three quid upstairs at Christophers on the last
Saturday in April. A warm evening and a warm vibe - (if you weren't there) you missed
something really good. Sanctimonious, Preset Addiction and The Small
Print were an irresistible line up so I didn't resist. These local
bands always play sets full of contrast and true to form on the night each determinedly served up their own unique, hard-won sound - to a
modest audience of 30, as the majority of Lincoln music fans opted to
either stay in and watch Casualty/snooker/Last of the Mohicans or go
into town for a few lagers/J20s. Funny thing is how bands can still
find what it takes to perform with obvious enthusiasm and commitment
despite a low turnout - and for those few who get to listen that's
kinda uplifting. The Small Print were the final act and they were so
impressive it's scary. Thanks, to all the bands, it was a great night"
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Bunt Returns
02 May Apr 06: Those of you of a certain age will remember Kevin Butler, bass player with The Bamboo Beat Band, Monkeys With Clothes On and Firefly. "Bunt" moved to Whitby some time back but he will be making a rare appearance in the county next month at South Clifton Village hall, playing with Steve Phillips & the Rough Diamonds on Saturday 24th June. Will post details on the gigs page as soon as we get prices etc. There's no bar but bringing your own drink is welcomed.
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