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 new Post your photos from your mobile New! - get your band and venue photos onto Lemonrock quicker than ever, using your phone's browser. To add a photo to your Flash gallery on your page, go to www.lemonrock.com on your mobile, and login to the Mobile Editor. Select 'new photo' from the 'photos menu' and select a photo from a folder in your mobile phone. You can add a caption, a copyright notice, and delete photos using the Mobile Editor, all in seconds! Try the Mobile Editor demo now » [21 Nov 08] | |
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 New Flash Photo Galleries for Bands and Venues Lemonrock has added a brand new photo viewer for all bands and venues! The viewer shows thumbnails like before, but viewing each full-size photo is now done within the page, instead of taking you off to another page. We think you'll enjoy flicking through photos in the new Adobe Flash player - it's much faster, shows captions within the photos, and has cool animation effects! [To view Band or Venue photos, click on the 'Photos' tab on any Band or Venue page. Note: you can still see the original "static" gallery too - just click the link under the new Flash player.] [8 Nov 08] | |
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| Up all night in Library The Library in Upper Street, Islington, is the newest venue and the new home for Up All Night's famous and much loved weekly open mic night. This new music industry watering hole is owned and run by The Fratellis' management team. Up All Night's first night will be on Tuesday 25th November. The open mic session, to be held every Tuesday, will be attended by music business insiders, agents and managers and will therefore be a great place for up and coming musicians to meet and greet useful contacts in a friendly, inclusive and lively setting. Acts wanting to perform at the open mic should come along at 7.00pm to sign up. The standard of music at Up All Night open mic events is very high, so if you are unsure, it may be a good idea to come along and check out the talent for a couple of weeks before deciding to play. Each week there will be featured musicians put forward by agents and management companies. These acts will get to go on whenever they want, avoiding the problem [5 Nov 08] | |
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 Samba for beginners Here's a fun and friendly introduction to playing Samba! Would you like to do something musical in a group but have never played, or haven't played for years? Have you heard Samba Percussion at Larks in the Parks or at a Carnival? How hard can hitting or shaking something be? Do you fancy having a go yourself? ... well, here's your chance! Samba Percussion Classes Learn and play on this 6 week fun course. Try out all the instruments and get to be part of the band. The next (second) session is on Monday 10th November. The course runs until Monday 8th December 2008, from 8 - 10pm. Venue: St Mary's Church, Old High Street, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP1 3AF Grab a friend and come along - it's just £20 for the whole course. For further details, ring Bob Garland on 01442 384854 or email bob@sambuka.co.uk [5 Nov 08] | |
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 Oxjam at the Blacksmiths confirmed The lineup for the Oxjam show at The Blacksmith Arms, St Albans on Friday 7th November has been announced. The excellent Faith Stealers covers band have agreed to offer their services free of charge, as have the other great bands on the bill. There will be great original punky pop from The Pocket Gods, and local legends The Sindys, who share the evening with Matt Kent's remodelled New Soul Rebel, a band that just keeps getting better. Newly formed Denmark Street will be putting on a show of old favourites and some new material, and will be introducing new drummer Eric Van De Velde. A superb night of live music from the area's top indie bands, and all for a great cause! Find out more about Oxjam. [4 Nov 08] | |
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 Instant MP3 tracks on your own site Ever wanted to put MP3s on your own web site, but didn't know how to? Lemonrock has come up with an easy answer - MP3 feeds for your own site! You can add as many different tracks as you want to your page, by copying a small piece of 'embed code' from Lemonrock. Bands and artists can choose a simple button or a fully featured player, and the player(s) can be easily colour-matched with a band's own site. To add MP3s to a band's own site, simply click on any MP3 [embed] link in your band's MP3 section, and Lemonrock will create the embed code for you. [Licensing note: although the MP3s appear to play from a band's own site, they are actually coming from the Lemonrock site. This means that bands do not need to worry about licensing the tracks - this is covered by Lemonrock's own MCPS-PRS licence.] [27 Oct 08] | |
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 Racers' Xmas Special By special request, 3 piece rock/blues band, Cafe Racers will be playing at the White Hart Inn, Ardingly on Boxing Day. Music starts at 8pm and goes on until midnight. If you want to work off some of that excess Christmas fare, come along and join us for the big party. Book early if you would like to eat at the venue as this is always a popular night. [17 Oct 08] | |
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 St Albans bands conquer 'In The City' On Monday October 6, 3 bands featuring musicians from the St Albans district performed at the UK's premier music industry conference and showcase, "In The City". SAASH Arts set up the showcase as part of their Verulam Underground initiative, supporting the professional developments of artists from the St Albans district, and the attending acts were chosen by a panel of local promoters. The venue chosen was the award winning One Central, in the heart of Manchester's club district - lending itself ideally to a live showcase - complete with an over enthusiastic mouse managing to take perfect aim at the trouser leg of Scratch front-man Andy! With the unenviable opening slot were punk-pop-glam stalwarts The Scratch who rose to the task with aplomb, delivering a raucous up-tempo set with big choruses, synchronised star jumps and a voodoo back beat. The band had arrived early at the conference and engaged in some top level schmoozing, attracting a BBC interview and the attentions of A-list [16 Oct 08] | |
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 Mixmag Announces Secret Act: Friendly Fires Mixmag Goes Live : October 17th at Pacha, Victoria, London. With only 8 days before Mixmag touches down for its first ever party in 8 years, their secret surprise live act has been announced. The hottest new band on the scene at the moment right now and performing live on October 17th are no other than the FRIENDLY FIRES. Not only this, but the main man behind the August 'Party Bombs' cover mount CD, Herve will be performing alongside Space terrace resident Riton and Little Boots Live all in the main room plus a very special mixmag DJ competition winner. Hosting the dubstep arena are the godfathers of grime and dub - Bristol based Appleblim and KISS 100's very own Hatcha! 75% of all presale tickets are sold out - see . Details: 1. Friendly Fires to perform Live. 2. 6 headline acts! Plus more to be announced. 3. Secret after [8 Oct 08] | |
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 John Peel Day London celebrations The Pocket Gods play a special gig for John Peel Day this Saturday 11th October at the 12 Bar Club in London. Also playing are another fine St Albans band, The Trailer Trash Orchestra. The Gods are also being interviewed on Friday 10th October on BBC's Introducing show and on BBC 3CR at 8pm. The Pocket Gods were originally discovered by John Peel in 2005 shortly before he died, and he even mentions them briefly in his auto-biography, Margrave of the Marshes. [7 Oct 08] | |
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 Lowender tickets on sale now for May 09 Tickets are available now for Lowender 2009 which has been moved back to the May bank holiday: the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of May. This is to try and avoid the bad weather which seems to be regularly arriving later in the summer. The idea behind the Lowender festival, held for the past 2 years at Colliford Lake Park in Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, is to showcase regional talent and hopefully give everyone in the local scene a large publicity boost. There are special deals to be had on multiple tickets, and there is also an early-bird discount of 10% available on adult tickets until April 2009. Obviously it's a bit early for any line-up information but check the Lowender site regularly for updates. [25 Sep 08] | |
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 Venue Accessibility Information Lemonrock has introduced Accessibility information for all venue pages. "We have added this feature in the light of the recent changes to the law, notably the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)," said Lemonrock's Editor, Mac MacLaren. "The accessibility information enables venues to show what provisions they have made to improve access for everyone," Mac explained. "There are eighteen different categories that can be set by ticking boxes. We have added all the most common categories, such as customer parking, wheelchair access and toilet facilities, as well as extended categories such as induction loops and baby changing facilities. "The accessibility information can be edited by venue owners, simply by logging into Lemonrock and going to the 'Accessibility' section on their venue page. "The advanced search feature has been extended to search for venues with particular access features, which will help the general public to find the type of venues best su [23 Sep 08] | |
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 Monopoly Music comes to St Albans To coincide with St Albans Giant Monopoly game on Sunday 28 September, SAASH Arts have programmed two live music sessions at designated checkpoints. The Blue Angel Acoustic Club will be hosting a session outside The Boot (in front of The Clocktower) which will feature a number of local acoustic stalwarts including J. Starck, Nick Stephenson, The Pocket Gods, High Chaparal and Bill Johnson. Redbourn Folk Club will be hosting the unplugged session at The Duke of Marlborough pub on Holywell Hill which will include blues duo Delta Echoes and hammered dulcimer player Jan Strapp. Both of the sessions will run between 12 - 3pm and admission is free. The Giant Monopoly game will be taking place around the City from 11.30am - 4.30pm and anyone interested in participating should log on to www.leisureinstalbans.co.uk or contact 01727 827667 or saash.arts@leisureconection.co.uk for further information. The Boot will be providing live music from 3pm into the evening, whilst The [22 Sep 08] | |
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 Gods' unconventional convention The Pocket Gods are set to play the Fortean Times annual convention - UnCon - on Saturday November 1st 2008 at The University of Westminster, London. The FT is the monthly magazine on the paranormal, UFOs, aliens, stone circles and anything that catches their fortean fancy. The magazine and its editor are fans of the gods and especially of their latest album "lo-fi sci-fi" which features songs about UFOs, voodoo dolls, faked moon landings and the glories of lard. More about UnCon [17 Sep 08] | |
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 fREAKjam attracts another celebrity The latest addition to the list of celebrities who regularly attend the weekly Thursday jam at the Rising Sun in Slough is 16 year old drumming sensation, Lee Aaron. Lee, from Sandhurst, was in the finals of "Young Drummer of the Year 2008" which was held on 3rd February at Leamington Spa. Lee is now officially recognised as being in the top 10 young drummers in the United Kingdom. Lee has quickly become popular with the other jammers, who enjoy his manic drumming style and engaging banter. Why not come down and see Lee in action for yourself, or even get up and jam with him? [9 Sep 08] | |
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