Posted by Alec on June 13, 2007, 6:59 pm, in reply to "Yep - all valid and respected points" The Gasworks guys have said on numerous occasions that they would be up for metal all-dayers. OK, they can't do it on a Saturday but Sundays are free - always seemed to work for Guy in T'Empress back in the day. They have done some Sunday gigs already. Again needs work and promotion but it's an option. The local music scene (in Bradford) has changed. It's not as metal orientated as it used to be but there are still a few venues. I agree though it is all a bit scattered and there isn't a regular rock "pub" where we can all go for a pint. nearest thing is the Exchange, which in fairness has improved slightly in recent months but the beer is still crap and expensive. Just before the Empress started doing the rock thing we had just The Exchange and Rio's. There will always be something going on somewhere and I'm sure something else will come along at some point. The new Bradford Rio's is not far off by all accounts and whilst it might not be great, at least its another place. There are also whispers about other ventures which are nothing more than hearsay at the moment but you never know. Just a few pointers ............ --Previous Message--
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A slightly ironic point but the very pub where a lot of us Bradford rock/metal fans originally met is currently really trying to make a go of it as a rock pub right now. The old Mannville Arms near the college - now called The Head - has live bands and rock DJ's on every weekend. Sure, it has some work to do and it's not the biggest venue in the world but it's pretty good and the beer is cheap! They haven't mastered the simple art of promotion yet though but I'm sure someone will step in to assist if there is any fire left in any hearts.
: it’s just time for a change.
:
: I honestly think there are more bands around
: here nowadays who would regard themselves as
: some flavour of metal (be them good or
: terrible) than there were when I started the
: NMW. And you hear about them doing this and
: that, but I have no contact with them,
: hardly see them to talk to and ask whats
: going on with that particual band. Because
: I don’t go out as much as I did, and because
: of dwindling venues and boozers neither do
: bands. It’s true man, I’d be out every
: Friday and Saturday night every week at one
: point going to gigs all over the place. I’d
: get some news story scribbled down on a beer
: matt, so and so has left the band or there’s
: a gig here next week with bla bla bla. Not
: any more. It doesn’t happen and I don’t
: want to go out that much any more anyway,
: I’m 32 and skint with a beer belly fit for a
: darts champion.
:
: The other thing is, nowadays it would seem
: every member of every band has some form of
: website skills, be it their own snazzy
: website, a MySpace page or whatever. When I
: started NMW this wasn’t the case at all so
: me doing news bits for bands, contact
: details, whatever, actually helped. They
: can all do it themselves nowadays. Even
: Asomvel are I.T. literate! heheheh
:
: I don’t mind admitting that NMW was very
: Bradford orientated, because that was where
: it was at. Fact. But Bradford, and the
: people, and indeed ‘Metal’ has changed a lot
: in 10 years. And so have I. I’m not saying
: I’m not into metal anymore, far from it, but
: rather than taking quite a lot of time to
: chase up bands and find out what news they
: have, I have a POD guitar set up on my desk
: at work (where I run NMW from, in my free
: time on an evening when I am on call /
: overtime), I’d rather be practicing my
: thrash riffage. I really need to practice
: more y’know, I am a terrible guitarist at
: the moment. I really want to get good so
: its practice practice practice at the
: moment.
:
: At one point I really came to hate that word
: ‘scene’, but now it’s an about turn and I do
: totally miss what we had going. Yes with
: the Empress, yes with Rio’s, yes with lots
: of the bands that have split up and gone.
: Whether I liked it or not it was quite a
: scene, linking in with the likes of Halifax
: Dewsbury Wakey Leeds and Hudds and
: occasionally outer lying areas. I’ve no
: idea what’s going on in these places really,
: be it the fault of the people, the places,
: the scene or myself I don’t know, nor care
: really.
:
: I got a lot of info and contact from meeting
: people through BloodStream too, which isn’t
: happening now so that doesn’t help either.
:
: Most websites like that don’t last half as
: long as NMW did, and didn’t really do
: anything useful other than repeat news
: they’d nicked from other metal websites. At
: least I know that mine helped a few people
: with this that and the other and made me
: quite a lot of friends, which is fantastic.
:
: I really hope that I am wrong and there is
: still some vibe kicking about, but if there
: is I don’t know about it. Not like it was.
:
: The truth is, I honestly don’t think too
: many people will care anyway.
:
: Naaaaah my future lies with a flat stomach
: and 80's THRASH METAL! hahahahaha
:
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