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Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:28 pm
by funkywhisky
doonedave wrote:decent smallish venues off the top of my head
Silver Bullet (N4)
The Waiting Rooms (N16)
Hysteria (E8)
Power Lunches (E8)
give them a bell, silver bullet might be able to sort you out a really good deal. had a few mates put on nights there.
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We are still planning what kind of night - towards a proper night but exposing new talents.
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:07 am
by Lye_Form
wub wrote:
If you're after South London, Arch 635 in Clapham North is worth a look.
Good venue, horrible management, avoid at all costs, they try and rip you off every way possible and will make it near impossible to run things on the night.
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:10 am
by gen_
I have a mate at Arch 635 that has opened up a few slots for people to play at, they're free though if you wanna PM me about what you have planned.
I actually might be starting a resident night there in a couple weeks, just need the peez to setup something decent. If you're just looking to play out then I can see about putting you on.
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:42 am
by wub
Lye Form wrote:wub wrote:
If you're after South London, Arch 635 in Clapham North is worth a look.
Good venue, horrible management, avoid at all costs, they try and rip you off every way possible and will make it near impossible to run things on the night.
That's unfortunate, an old promotion I used to play for recently started using them. Not spoken to the lads about how their first party went there.
Great venue though, they still got the table football at the front?
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:46 am
by gen_
I was down the week before last. Didn't see any table footy.
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:55 am
by wub
gen_ wrote:I was down the week before last. Didn't see any table footy.
Awww
Once got served mojitos in there made with vodka. Complained to the bar manager, who yelled at the guy who had made the mistake, then made us another two mojitos correctly with rum for free. We were also allowed to keep the original vodka ones. Was during a 2-for-£5 promotion, so we ended up with four strong drinks for a fiver.
Random south London drinking tales.
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:10 am
by DJoe
i would not recommend the silver bullet at all. i live 10 minutes away and its the sort of venue all my mates will refuse to go to regardless of what night is put on. people wont go purely on the basis of the night being in the silver bullet
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:28 am
by wub
DJoe wrote:i would not recommend the silver bullet at all. i live 10 minutes away and its the sort of venue all my mates will refuse to go to regardless of what night is put on. people wont go purely on the basis of the night being in the silver bullet
Not heard of the venue before Dave mentioned it, what's wrong with the place?
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:47 am
by DJoe
tright opposite finsbury park station. its changed ownership a lot over the last decade, iit used to be a proper dive bar called the gas light. but its got a bad reputation as just being a shit club. when we were 16 we used to go there because it was the only place in finsbury park open late that would let us in with no id. its usually half empty, you get very weird people wandering in as well. its just one of those clubs that people won't go to and that has a reputation for being a bit crap. it might actually be an alright venue now, but it will be hard to persuade people to go
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:58 pm
by oski
DJoe wrote:tright opposite finsbury park station. its changed ownership a lot over the last decade, iit used to be a proper dive bar called the gas light. but its got a bad reputation as just being a shit club. when we were 16 we used to go there because it was the only place in finsbury park open late that would let us in with no id. its usually half empty, you get very weird people wandering in as well. its just one of those clubs that people won't go to and that has a reputation for being a bit crap. it might actually be an alright venue now, but it will be hard to persuade people to go
yeah but look at system at the dome
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:06 pm
by Lye_Form
wub wrote:Lye Form wrote:wub wrote:
If you're after South London, Arch 635 in Clapham North is worth a look.
Good venue, horrible management, avoid at all costs, they try and rip you off every way possible and will make it near impossible to run things on the night.
That's unfortunate, an old promotion I used to play for recently started using them. Not spoken to the lads about how their first party went there.
Great venue though, they still got the table football at the front?
It may depend whos there on the night or something, but i was down when a friend was organising a night and the manager kept asking him for more money, even when the guy running it was djing....
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:11 pm
by leeany
I'm not from London so I can't help unfortunately, but I'd be down to play a set sometime if you want
Just started my own night in Amsterdam with some mates, we're having Pev, Wen, Logos and Mumdance over in 2 weeks
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:19 pm
by funkywhisky
LumiNiscent wrote:I'm not from London so I can't help unfortunately, but I'd be down to play a set sometime if you want
Just started my own night in Amsterdam with some mates, we're having Pev, Wen, Logos and Mumdance over in 2 weeks
Nice. Best of luck, but with that line-up you can't fail!
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:41 pm
by wilson
Looks like Uprise Audio are having an album launch at the Silver Bullet in a few days, anyone thinking of going down? Can't be completely terrible if Seven's putting a night on there.
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:57 pm
by PinUp
The Tuff Scout label do a monthly night at the Silver Bullet as well, maybe it has come on a bit from previous scabby days....
Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:46 pm
by chuckman
Im starting my own night down at the Silver Bullet on the 15th of may, dubstep night for upcoming producers and djs, residents from OneFortyDeep amd albion collective, also snooks from niteshadeinc! Hayley the promotional manager there couldnt be anymore helpful, propa nice and really interested in setting up new nights, shes helped me alot and always eager to back new events! sick setup too! Ive never set up a night before but hayley made it dead easy! Deffinitly consider silver bullet!

Re: Beginning a night in London
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:47 pm
by _v_
All very interesting