10-29-2003, 11:45 PM
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jet skis on the reg
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Caldogno, VI, Italia
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Local Scene/BYOFL
Ok, I think its time we start talking about DIY.
I'm sure there are lots of you people out there, in internetland, who are VERY active in your local scene, and know alot about bands that come from your town, and venues to play at. I'm sure all of you love seeing a punk show, and I'm sure many of you would like to go on tour. Well how do you do that with out some big record label? BOOK YOUR OWN ****ING LIFE! that's right DIY (do it yourself), its time to address that ethic of punk rock. Hell, my parents even live by it. Its universal and it can get you far in life even (Kung-Fu Records, Fat Wreck Chords, Epitaph and just about every other punk label that is successful started out DIY). So what is there about DIY? Well first off you can book your own shows. In this thread I intend for there to be a list of places to play in your area, and bands who will play with you (these bands MUST HAVE DONE GIGS BEFORE or they can be your own). Secondly, you can put out your own records HOLY ****! PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO THAT? yes they do as hard as it may sound, many, many bands put out records DIY (i know alot of you know this already  )Thirdly, write articles for your own zine. All of you have computers (obviously  ) and you most likely have a printer so put it to use! Don't **** around in english class when they teach you how to write, you can write zine articles and express your opinions just fine and dandy, and you can do it all yourself. fourthly and finally: GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND DO **** FOR THE SCENE. Get a place to play shows, book shows, start a band, start a zine, start a record label, sell records, make T-shirts, make patches, organize a gang, start a promotion company. Do whatever your scene needs and you think you can do. Just think of all the joy and satisfaction when your sitting at the show in your hometown of the First ever Tarakany US-tour, chilling with the band, making friends for a lifetime, and then you can say to yourself «HEY! I did this». So here we go with places you can play at in my area: (please respond with your places to play, and other DIY ideas and comments): Huntsville, Alabama, USA: The Neighborhood Hot Spot 1407 Jordan Lane Huntsville Alabama, 35816 Tele #: (256) 489-5201 you can call them or mail to them inquiries on booking. Southern Adventures 2150 Leeman Ferry Cir. Huntsville Alabama, 35801 Tele #: (256) 850-6599 before you book a gig here, you need to have a local band as your sponser, and you need to send the venue a CD or Cassette so they can hear you. Knights of Columbus Hall well a KOC is a KOC and you need contact in Huntsville to get a show there. all these venues are good at paying bands too  .Anniston, Alabama, USA: Room 1213 (probably the best punk venue in all of Alabama) 12 West 13th St. Anniston, AL 36206 Tele #: none given: from their website (www.1213rockshows.com): 1213 Rock Shows requires a CD or demo to be sent to: 6216 Meadowlark Dr. Anniston AL 36206. If you are looking for a specific date you can email Randy at: rapid_randy@hotmail.com Please send date needed or available weekend dates and contact info along with your demo.: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As far as bands to play with goes Drag Down First www.dragdownfirst.tk they'd love to play with your band (I'm almost sure they would) and they are very reliable at putting shows together, but they are on a hieatus until December The Alabama Jihad http://alabamajihadmusic.tk/ These guys WANT people to play with them, so I suggest you get to it and book yourself a show in Alabama with them. They are amazing live! These two bands describe what alot of the music comming out of Huntsville sounds like, New Wave combined with Hardcore or Emo. there are other bands and if anyone else wants them e-mail me @ thenrasucksreallybad@hotmail.com well feel free to add 
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10-29-2003, 11:48 PM
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In Your Bedroom
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Peg, Manitoba, Canada!
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Awsome thread Whyvern, i'll sticky this for now. This will become our Local Scene (Plug In Your Local Bands) thread too.
Cheers
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10-30-2003, 12:48 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Good idea Whyvern!! Useful info, but i don't think anyone else around here lives in my area, so i don't think me putting up bands to contact and places to play would be very much use to the UG community.
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10-30-2003, 08:05 AM
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jet skis on the reg
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Caldogno, VI, Italia
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well what if someone is planning a tour in Australia?
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10-30-2003, 04:14 PM
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Manimal in a Cage
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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I was just thinking about making a thread where everyone plugged in their local venues, you beat me to it, great idea whyvy.
Ok, here's a few local Cleveland Venues: Grog Shop http://www.grogshop.gs 1765 Coventry Rd Cleveland Heights, OH (216) 321-5588 Chris' Warped Records 13383 Madison Ave Lakewood, OH (216) 521-4981 Peabodys 2083 E 21st St. Cleveland, OH 216-776-9999 Carriage House Niteclub 9033 Columbus Road Louisville, OH 330-875-8101 Green Room Madison Ave, Lakewood, OH. 216-221-8611 Lakewood has a very good punk scene going right now. And also check out www.clevelandpunkscene.com for some great information. And a good tip for making connections, never ever be self-conscience or nervous when introducing yourself, always be the first to start conversation and always ALWAYS have a demo handy. But do not shove it in their face. |
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10-30-2003, 07:26 PM
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Thrash Zone
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: winnipeg, manitoba beoch!
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wow great idea, thanks for the reminder i won't post any venues for my local scene becaus Monty lives in winnipeg too and i'm sure he knows alot more than me.
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10-30-2003, 07:38 PM
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In Your Bedroom
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Peg, Manitoba, Canada!
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I'll post some later, but feel free to post some also if you want. What part of Winnipeg are you from? There aren't many tobans around here.
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Official UG Chrus Crew Member #02 <Jiimy> my pokemon brings all the nerds to the yard <Jiimy> and they're like do you wanna trade cards Ordinary people do ****ed up things when ****ed-up things become ordinary - PROPAGANDHI Punk Forums (click here) Some Cool Band Links: Hardcore Links Oi/Street Links SAVE THE EEYOREDRAGONS! UG's Propagandist Last edited by Monty : 10-30-2003 at 08:56 PM. |
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10-30-2003, 09:12 PM
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In Your Bedroom
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Peg, Manitoba, Canada!
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Re: Local Scene/ DIY
Here's some venues in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
Pyramid Cabaret 176 Fort Street Tele #: (204) 957-7777 The Zoo/Ozzie's 160 Osborne Street Tele #: (204) 452-9824 West End Cultural Centre 586 Ellice Ave Tele #: (204) 783-6918 The Royal Albert Arms 48 Albert St. Tele #: (204) 943-8433 Le Rendez-Vous 768 Tache Avenue Tele #: will find later... U of M Multi-Purpose Room University of Manitoba Campus Tele #: Unknown Phone for booking info and etc. I'll add some more later.
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Official UG Chrus Crew Member #02 <Jiimy> my pokemon brings all the nerds to the yard <Jiimy> and they're like do you wanna trade cards Ordinary people do ****ed up things when ****ed-up things become ordinary - PROPAGANDHI Punk Forums (click here) Some Cool Band Links: Hardcore Links Oi/Street Links SAVE THE EEYOREDRAGONS! UG's Propagandist Last edited by Monty : 10-30-2003 at 09:17 PM. |
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10-31-2003, 12:59 AM
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Numbah One in Da Hood G
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Fresno, California
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Fresno City Hardcore (FCHC) Fresno, California USA
http://www.fresnohardcore.net I'll post some venues later. Some local punk/hardcore/emo/thrash bands- The Lost Boys Not 4 Hire Civil Duty Needy Eevy Crucial Conscience The Victims The Velisha(my band) The Idles Straight Edge Kegger The Fallouts Upside Right Dying Within A Bleeding Youth All Dead Militant Youth The Getaways Middle Class Mile Peel Apparition Occam's Razor A.O.A Falsett Nowhere Fast Band sites- The Velisha- http://www.geocities.com/thevelishapunx Falsett- http://www.falsettrock.com The Victims- http://www.geocities.com/thevictimspunk The Lost Boys- http://www.thelostboys.tk Militant Youth- http://www.militantyouth.tk Not 4 Hire- http://www.n4hpunx.com Other local scene sites- PlanetGig- http://www.planetgig.com Fresno Area Local Bands- http://www.localbands.org Truthstar- http://www.truthstar.tk Anti-Trust Records- http://geocities.com/antitrustrecords/
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10-31-2003, 07:07 PM
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walt jabsco!!!
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: nowhere
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cool someone else from cleveland Odeon Concert Club 1295 Old River Road Cleveland, OH 44113 216-574-2525
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11-02-2003, 02:21 AM
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Add Wings To A Hawk and..
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Ohio
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we have two venues
Newport music hall Alarosa Their both good and my band has played at newport a bunch of times with The pitts
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11-02-2003, 04:09 AM
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Numbah One in Da Hood G
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Fresno, California
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Yeah, today I was trying to book a show at this place called the Hi-Tech Fun Center, and I called them and they said we could play the 22nd of November if we bought 250 bucks worth of tickets(50 tickets) and sold them for 8 bucks each and got to keep the profit, so I told them "dude, that's pay to play, we don't do that, it ruined the music scene down in LA" and h'es all like "they do it in LA now and they do it everywhere else too" so I told him we'd play for free and he said "well, don't you want to make any money?" and I said "nope...we'll play for free..." and he says that they may want us to play just bring him a promo package and a demo....haha, I told that dude off. And so I think if we bring a promo package he might let us play cuz he knows we mean bussiness.
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11-02-2003, 11:42 PM
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Del Taco
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: I'm sitting on an island in the middle of the sea.
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There are a couple venues in Knoxville, TN here are 2 I could find info on.
Old City Java snail mail old city java 109 s. central st. knoxville, tn 37902 phone 865.523.9817 general info: info@oldcityjava.net booking info: booking@oldcityjava.net Blue Cats check http://www.bluecatslive.com/ for info. And also some local bands to check out here in Knoxville, TN is Maas Neo-tek http://www.maas-neotek.cjb.net/ The Royal Bangs(formerly known as the Suburban Urchins) http://www.theroyalbangs.com/ Perfect Orange http://www.perfectorange.tk/ My Lost Cause http://www.mylostcause.net/
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11-04-2003, 05:26 PM
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Manimal in a Cage
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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Ok, you're last 2 posts have not in any way contributed to this thread. It's just you talking about how serious you are about music and how you know so much more than any local kids. Please stop. |
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11-08-2003, 03:25 AM
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In Your Bedroom
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Peg, Manitoba, Canada!
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Ok I deleted the unnecessary posts to keep this thread clean, Berlioz if you don't like this thread why are you posting in it?
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11-08-2003, 03:26 AM
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Numbah One in Da Hood G
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Fresno, California
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Sorry, I just got pissed cuz he was trying to tell me off and...anyway....venues here suck and I don't know their numbers, so I'm done.
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11-10-2003, 11:27 PM
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UG Member
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Chicago
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The Fireside Bowl
2648 W. Fullerton Ave. Chicago, IL (773)-486-2700 http://www.firesidebowl.com/ ^ excellent venue, pretty tough to get though. |
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11-20-2003, 10:06 PM
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Add Wings To A Hawk and..
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Ohio
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hey my band is gonna try and do a tour of the country next summer, if you guys could PM me some good places in your local scene to play that would be awesome
thanks
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11-20-2003, 10:16 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Chicago
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That's what this whole thread is about. |
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