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21/12/2021

Round up of our favourite releases of 2021 🙌❤️

10/12/2021

How was this 2 weeks ago? Great bands, people, venue ❤️More to come in the new year… see you in 2022 🙌 📸

28/11/2021

Awesome pictures of a great night taken by the awesome who kindly came down to the show. Still on a high of a memorable show. Shout out again to all the bands Darko Incisions Spit Sisters who were incredible and to all the people who came to the show ❤️🙌

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26/11/2021

This was the only picture I managed to take of last night, and I’m sure there will be more to be seen for sure. It was such a good turnout and a great start back to it. Thanks to Rob Lockjaw Records for the collaboration, thanks to all the bands last night Darko Incisions Spit Sisters you all played amazing, thanks to The Fighting C***s Bar & Live Music Venue for letting us put on the show and we’re lucky to try out the new PA system for the first time and thanks to everyone who travelled from all over to come down was great seeing so many amazing people ❤️. Thats it for this year more to come in the new year.

24/11/2021

Well this is amazing 🙌 Don’t forget tomorrow night! 7pm Darko Incisions Spit Sisters play The Fighting C***s Bar & Live Music Venue tickets are available Lockjaw Records. Can’t wait 🙌 see you tomorrow ❤️

Massive thanks to the legends over at Banquet Records for hooking us up with the badass Pryzm PA. Gigs at the C***s are about to get a whole lot more epic 🤘

22/11/2021

Unfortunately Oktopussy have had to pull out of this weeks show. But we’re super excited for London/Brazil based with a dark emo sound to come and join the party this Thursday 25th November 7pm The Fighting C***s Bar & Live Music Venue with Darko Incisions Spit Sisters tickets are available Lockjaw Records online shop. 🙌❤️

18/11/2021

Only a week away! Not long 🙌. Darko Incisions Spit Sisters Oktopussy play The Fighting C***s Bar & Live Music Venue and we can’t wait for this! Have you grabbed your ticket yet ?? If not tickets are available Lockjaw Records online shop. Thursday 25th November Doors 7pm. Look forward to seeing you all 🙌❤️

08/11/2021

Matter of weeks till this show is upon us at The Fighting C***s Bar & Live Music Venue We’re super stoked about this lineup and couldn’t be more excited. Thursday 25th November 7pm. Have you got your tickets yet??? Available Lockjaw Records online shop. ❤️🙌 Darko Incisions Spit Sisters Oktopussy

25/10/2021

Hey it’s Monday! Hope your all good! Looking forward to putting on our first show of 2021! Which is exactly a month today. Don’t miss it! tickets are available at Lockjaw Records. I’ve updated the “New Music Monday” playlist as it’s been a few weeks! Tracks by Grandma’s House, Laura-Mary Carter, Rosie Tucker, The Chisel, Destroy Boys, Dream Nails, Slap Rash, Church Girls, Cherym, Filthy Hearts, Touché Amore, Cuffed Up, The Wytches. Link for playlist is here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2zvz7VYwkYNXGlCVqruZu0?si=LE8IZEkETFaFXoWCBQPXjg

19/10/2021

We can’t wait for our first show back at one of the best venues The Fighting C***s Bar & Live Music Venue Thursday 25th November. An amazing lineup that you don’t wanna miss Darko Incisions Spit Sisters Oktopussy. Doors at 7pm, tickets £8 available Lockjaw Records www.lockjawrecords.co.uk

12/10/2021

Excited to announce our first show back at The Fighting C***s Bar & Live Music Venueon 25th November I’ll be teaming up with Lockjaw Records with this killer lineup. The return of melodic hardcore punks Darko, support from Manchester’s high energy Incisions, London’s Q***r punk feminists Spit Sisters and Punk/Riot girl Oktopussy. Tickets are available at this link https://www.lockjawrecords.co.uk/shop/darko-incisions-spit-sisters-and-oktopussy-at-the-fighting-cocks-tickets/

09/08/2021

Hey all, It’s been awhile!! Huge update to the “New Music Monday” playlist which you can obtain here at this link https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2zvz7VYwkYNXGlCVqruZu0?si=CSAcmpjMT2SfS3Zp3FxPlQ&dl_branch=1.
New music from Culture Shock, Fake Names, Turnstile, METZ, Snake Eyes, Chubby and The Gang, JOHN (times two), Park Avenue, ARXX, Slow Crush, Don’t Worry, Grand Collapse, Dry Cleaning, Laura Stevenson, Amyl and the Sniffers, The Distillers.. told you there was a lot, go have a listen to some awesome tunes ❤️

26/07/2021

Hey!!! It’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted. It’s great seeing live music back up and running, seeing everyone’s posts, going to see my first show in a couple of weeks, can’t wait!! Things will be up and running soon with me, processing and planning in the pipeline stay tuned! In the meantime I’ve added to “New music Monday” playlist tracks added by Maisonette, Home is where, Cuffed up, Spanish love songs, Grand Collaspe , The Linda Linda’s, I Like Allie feat Laura Stevenson. ❤️ link is here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2zvz7VYwkYNXGlCVqruZu0?si=_2-t-26BRRCRo5uv8ZLq9g&dl_branch=1

17/07/2021

12/07/2021

New music Monday! Playlist updated! New tracks from Turnstile, Face to Face, The Muzlimz, Amyl and The Sniffers, Snake eyes, OFF!, Dim Wizard and Erica Freas.. if you would like your music added feel free to message.. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2zvz7VYwkYNXGlCVqruZu0?si=CllG9RvbSe6NIla8puF-jg

28/06/2021

It’s Monday! New week upon us! I’ve added some new tracks by Chain cult, The Bronx, Soul Glo, Gloo, Pins, Drug Church, Sincere Engineer, Worriers, Cutting Ties to the “New Music Monday “ which you can find here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2zvz7VYwkYNXGlCVqruZu0?si=CllG9RvbSe6NIla8puF-jg& .. if you would like to add your music feel free to message me.

15/06/2021

With another 4 weeks until restrictions are lifted, we can hopefully get back to the one thing we all love “live music” But with this we have to remember things we’ve learnt over this past year and to move forward and make it safer, equal and better. I wrote a little piece on my website under articles ❤️

07/05/2021

It’s Bandcamp Friday! Support musicians through these tough times! Show your love ❤️

08/03/2021

Happy international women’s day ❤️❤️❤️

24/02/2021

Coming up to a year when I put on my first show and only show of 2020, due to Covid,such fun and thankful for the bands that supported this. At the moment it’s hard to make plans as to when this can all happen again but there will be more to come in the near future. ❤️

27/12/2020

Please help sign the petition to help support bands/artists wanting to continue touring Europe.

We would like the UK Govt to negotiate a free cultural work permit that gives us visa free travel throughout the 27 EU states for music touring professionals, bands, musicians, artists, TV and sports celebrities that tour the EU to perform shows and events & Carnet exception for touring equipment.

30/09/2020

MUSIC VENUE TRUST: "THE WHOLE GRASSROOTS MUSIC VENUE SECTOR IS NOW AT CRITICAL, RED ALERT STATUS"

Urgent Calls Made for ‘Decisive, Direct Action’ by Wider Music Sector, Music Fans & Local Communities



London , September 30th 2020 - Music Venue Trust (MVT), which represents hundreds of grassroots music venues throughout the UK has issued a dire warning to the UK government that the entire grassroots live music sector is now at “red alert status” and has called on the wider music industry, local communities and music fans to support its ongoing campaign by taking “decisive, direct action” to ensure every venue can survive and re-open safely.

With the announcement of how the government’s much-touted £ 1.57bn Cultural Recovery will be distributed due on October 5th , and final decisions on funding for grassroots music venues in England, Scotland and Wales announced by October 16th, MVT has declared the situation ‘critical’ today, with a warning that the fate of these venues is now hanging in the balance.

Mark Davyd, co-founder & CE of Music Venue Trust (MVT) said: "After six months of struggling to survive, grassroots music venues now face a two-week period of huge uncertainty in which their future will be decided by the outcome of a single government funding announcement. The Government has put all its eggs in one basket and has no backup plan to prevent the complete collapse of this entire cultural sector, placing at risk over 200,000 jobs, and billions of pounds of economic activity".

The Westminster government's singular reliance on the impact of the Cultural Recovery Fund was revealed last week when the Winter Economy Plan contained no additional measures to address the specific restrictions that have been placed on the live music industry. This was compounded during a meeting hosted by The Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) when numerous enquiries from MPs asking what the government was going to do to prevent the collapse of the live music industry was answered by stock answers stating that the Cultural Recovery Fund was “being made available”.

Beverley Whitrick, Strategic Director of MVT, said, "Music Venue Trust is extremely concerned that the situation has become Schrodinger's fund; hardly anyone has received any significant support from the Cultural Recovery Fund yet, but everyone is going to be saved by it. This is not a coherent strategy; the government does not even control the distribution of the funding they have made available and on which their entire strategy for the UK live music sector now rests".

With this in mind MVT is calling on the wider music industry, music fans and local communities to redouble their efforts to prevent the permanent closure of grassroots music venues by getting directly involved in the campaign through fundraising , letter writing to local councils , MPs, social media support and more.

Mark Davyd continues: "Venues, artists, audiences, and communities have done everything they can to support the campaign, which has helped hundreds of grassroots music venues to survive to this point. Music Venue Trust has offered extraordinary support to enable grassroots music venues to make strong, evidenced applications to the Cultural Recovery Fund. The entire government focus on what can be achieved by that single fund will reach its conclusion between October 5th and October 16th when the results of those applications are announced. Any venue that is not successful, or any venue that is ineligible, will still be unable to open, will still have to pay rent and will still have no possible income sources from the day those decisions are announced until the day they are finally able to open. We need everyone who cares about the future of grassroots music venues to take note of these decisions as they are made and if necessary to take direct action to save any venue that is unsuccessful. It’s up to us – the government may very well fail to save our venues but we as individuals can still fight for their survival.”

Music Venue Trust will be announcing the funding decisions as they are made via their social media channels and the media and will provide a list of both successful and unsuccessful venues so that can support efforts be directed to where they are most needed .

Beverley Whitrick added, "We don't know what the outcome here will be; worryingly, neither does the government despite their singularly reliance upon this funding to protect access to culture across hundreds of communities. But we do know that the Save Our Venues campaign, with the incredible support it has received, has got the grassroots sector to this stage with minimum losses. That campaign may now need to be stepped up. Grassroots Music Venues are at Red Alert status and hundreds are confronted by the possibility of imminent decisions which will result in their permanent closure. Our whole grassroots community sector will need to take part in decisive, direct action if we are to ensure we reopen every venue safely."

10/09/2020

Hey everyone! I manage to speak to one of the hardest working writer’s within the DIY music scene Matt Speer of Ear Nutrition, discussing work, influences, music throughout COVID times and what the future holds...It’s now live on the website under interviews.

17/08/2020

Hey everyone! I started promoting at the end of 2019 and due to the situation with Covid live music and organising shows has been put on hold. In this time I have set up my own website which will feature interviews, stories etc within the music scene. My first interview I had the absolute pleasure of catching up with Laura-Mary Carter from Blood Red Shoes. It’s up live now on the website which is in my bio. Blood Red Shoes

22/07/2020

Great news!

We are delighted to announce that Manchester iconic live music venues The Deaf Institute and Gorilla have been SAVED.

Terms have been agreed for Aaron Mellors led Tokyo Industries to acquire both venues including all team members. The venues will operate in much the same way as they have done in the past, under an agreement between Tokyo INdustries and SSD. .

Roy Ellis, CEO of Mission Mars said “It’s really great news for our teams and the music loving people of Manchester that both venues have found such a perfect new home. The bad news announcement last week regarding the closure plans galvanised an unprecedented level of interest from passionate operators from across the region and even beyond. I’m extremely grateful that we’ve been able to find a new and appropriate new home for these amazing venues and people.”

The deal was agreed over the weekend and legals are well underway. Team members have been informed and their reaction was predictably upbeat and excited.

Aaron Mellor founder of Tokyo Industries said “These are extremely difficult times for all grassroots music venues around the UK, It's vital venues like Gorilla and The Deaf Institute are kept alive, the cultural fabric of our City centres depends venues like these. Over the weekend we’ve put together some great ideas with SSD Concerts and Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) to help save both venues and their existing operating style in a post Covid world. We’re not so keen on this ‘new’ normal and want to keep the ‘old’ normal alive for when we all get through this."

Steve Davis from SSD Concerts said “The music industry is facing some of its toughest times at the moment, ever since I first promoted a Charlatans acoustic show at The Deaf Institute 10 years ago, I have had a real love for the venue so it will be an honour to work on the next chapter in their stories - Gorilla is one of my favourite places to watch gigs in the whole of The North West’s amazing music scene”

Beverley Whitrick of MVT commented: "We are delighted that these two vital, iconic spaces have been saved from permanent closure. We are continuing to work with various parties in Hull to try and achieve the same outcome for the Welly and Polar Bear. This is a very important outcome for Manchester and we hope that Hull will take similar action to protect its grassroots music scene."

02/07/2020

The music industry needs your help! We need the U.K. Government to listen and acknowledge that it needs to support live music! The Music venue trust needs £50 million to prevent it from going out of business and secure people’s jobs. The music industry last year took £4.5 billion into the economy and created 210,000 jobs, with that it should be entitled to funding. Music is at the heart of culture. We’re are all longing for live music to return. To the musicians, venues, promoters, the crew and to everyone behind the scenes that make it happen. Time to help and take action.

18/04/2020

Hey guys checkout I See Vultures. They’ve just re-released there debut video due to their original launch being overshadowed by Covid-19. Hoping to have these guys play soon at one of It's Alright It's Fine Promotions shows that was also postponed in the near future. In the meantime show your support and love.

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17/04/2020

A little piece I wrote about the uncertain weird times were facing! And the impact it’s having on the music industry. Please support your local venue promoters record stores musicians share and like their pages buy Merchandise records downloads Go fund me pages . Who knows what will happen in the future but in the meantime show your love and support 💪

Playlist time! We asked punk af Hannah Duddy of It’s Alright, It’s Fine promotions to make us a playlist we...

15/03/2020

Hey everyone in light of everything that is happening Im having to postpone the show. EAT DIRT. Riviera Kid Party Boss and X Twenty Two thanks for the understanding ❤️

28/02/2020

First show of the year! Thanks to the Resuscitators Indoor Swimming Revolution Summer The Cave at The Holly tree thanks for playing and making it happen 🙌

17/02/2020

Next Thursday! First show! Make sure you can make it down to the burbs for this awesome lineup! Resuscitators Revolution Summer Indoor Swimming 27th February Live @ The Cave Addlestone