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| thetallman |
Shadow Reichenstein UK Tour this August!!!Just announced from Shadow himself.....August - 9th - Stoke on Trent, The Rigger. 10th - TBA 11th - Camden Underworld 12th - Peterboro, The Met Lounge Pleas promote this as much as you can - we don't get tours like this often so if this is a success more bands might come over!! 
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| Tommy Creep |
Fuckin' ace news like. | ||||
| danblood |
Sweet whats up with the tenth? ...*Calls Sam to book em* haha | ||||
| thetallman |
Yeah, the band sounded surprised by the tour and as you can see It's quite short notice ... I don't know if there's going to be any continental dates either side of these. I get the feeling It's been given to them out of the blue. Please plug this wherever you can - Myspace bullitens, other forums etc..
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| Deathbed |
SEE YOU ALL AT STOKE!!
me and fran will be there |
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| zombiesatemybrain |
Would have gone to stoke but we're at Rebellion in Blackpool 
May make the peterborough one 
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| Tommy Creep |
Where is Stoke? I'ma probably go to the London one.. | ||||
| zombiesatemybrain |
Near Alton Towers I think, I may have made that up... I multimapped it, its between Derby & Chester off the M6 |
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| Deathbed |
bout 45 mins from me. | ||||
| SpookySam |
The booking guy was supposed to get back to me bout Blitzkid & the hellnights tour, hmmmmmmm | ||||
| MonsterMash |
I think we'll definitely be at the Peterborough one, can't make Stoke due to Rebellion (even though it's nearer - gah!). | ||||
| Tommy Creep |
This should be badass.
Now we need to get the Crimson Ghosts and Calabrese to the UK... |
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| Deathbed |
whos actual going to stoke!?!?! | ||||
| doc_horror |
aww i'm away all that week too... | ||||
| doc_horror |
now were technikly a fiendforce band... maybe we can get em to book more stuff in the UK! | ||||
| MonsterMash |
Well the show on the 10th turned out to be at Rebellion, so we saw them there and won't be going to Peterborough....
I've done a sort of review/rambling anecdote in my post about Rebellion. 
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| thetallman |
Anyone go to the other gigs and care to share it with us? Would have gone to Stoke but had tickets for Rev Horton Heat in B'ham (which also clashed with Trashstock in Notts which I also had tickets for due the The Rev changing his date (!!!), the ticket prices for rebellion were a joke for the few bands I wanted to see, Peterboro was just too far and London would have cost train tickets, hotel and days off work. I was doomed for this tour before it even started  !
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| zombiesatemybrain |
I thought the ticket prices for Rebellion were really good - £75 for 4 days of music? What do things like Reading or Download cost? Twice as much for one less day? Rebellion is a punk festival though & SR were never going to draw a huge crowd, but I don't think you can critiscise Rebellion for not having enough bands on that fit the specific genre you like to justify the ticket price 
& I'm sorry, but there's always people on here whinging about the lack of gigs in the UK & then when some come up you're whinging they're in the wrong places? If you don't support the scene bands won't tour, simple as |
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| MonsterMash |
Yes Rebellion isn't really about paying to see one band, it's about seeing lots of bands you wouldn't normally see play to a lot of people who actually give two shits about punk music.
I guess SR went on the bill because as it was a festival slot, they hoped they'd get more interest from casual observers rather than just playing to a few die-hards who already own all their albums. Maybe it didn't pay off but maybe a few people in the crowd went out and bought a CD as a result. I think one of the main problems with SR doing Rebellion is that even for a horror band they're pretty obscure. Yeah they're on Fiendforce but they don't have the exposure of (say) The Other or Rezurex or Blitzkid or someone like that. Those bands are still pretty cult but they do have people who know of them outside the horror scene. Christ, I reckon Zombina would have been more familiar to punters at Rebellion than SR and probably been better suited on the bill, too. And while SR do play horror music, there's more of a metal element to what they do than many horrorpunk bands - and with the uniforms and the long hair, they have more of a Gothic than a punk image. I do kind of think that if a pure horrorpunk band had been on the bill, more people would have gone to check them out. As it was, to most people they were just some American Goths in Nazi uniforms... As I said in my review - I'm really glad they were on the bill and we got to see them and had a great time. And you can't really blame the band for taking a chance on something like Rebellion, even if it didn't pay off - and who are we to say it didn't? |
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| Tommy Creep |
London was ace even though the set wasn't that long, there weren't many people and one had to endure Spit Like This supporting. 
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| MonsterMash |
Oh Christ, really? You poor guy! |
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| zombiesatemybrain |
I tried to look but their myspace was all messy & full of self-importance so I made a cup of tea instead 
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| MonsterMash |
Glam metal. Could be worse but they're kind of like Towers of London - not in sound terms, just in that they're a pretty average band who walk around like they shit rock 'n' roll and piss awesomeness... when clearly they don't. Plus they do that hideous "Smell Your Mum" t-shirt company which makes all those t-shirts with things like "Buffy the Chav Slayer" and "I'm So Goth I Murder Townies and Drink Their Blood" on them. It all just seems so unnecessary...
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| SpookySam |
Wasn't it awesome!! Not SR related sorry but I wanted to join in. |
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| zombiesatemybrain |
You join in all you like
I wanted to go to RHH but you can't do everything I suppose & he tours fairly often
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| thetallman |
Sorry, I was referring to the £30 1 day ticket to see the only band (SR) I was interested in.... I would have gone to the Stoke gig if SR or the promoter had published the dates BEFORE I'd bought Trashstock tickets and then IF the RHH hadn't swapped his date so I was TRIPLE BOOKED on that Saturday. I lost money on the Trashstock tickets (which meant I was supporting alot of independent bands if I'd have gone - and had a room booked). As explained Peterboro and London in the week were just too far. Apologies for not attending but I'm think I'm justified - don't worry I feel gutted!! |
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| thetallman |
100% agreed - those T shirts actually look quite chav themselves.... |
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| zombiesatemybrain |
Ok, fair enough, I just get a lot annoyed when people complain that there aren't enough gigs/they're too far away/the band didn't play in my back yard etc...  then complain there's no scene - I'm not talking about you specifically here, or anyone in particular, its just a general thing - I read a really good post on another board I think I'm going to steal & put up, possibly one of the most intelligent things ever posted on a message board 
Personally I was glad we didn't have to go to Stoke or Peterboro It essentially saved us money 
I just looked up trashstock - I'm surprised I didn't hear about it, its only down the road from us. Patchwork Grace were the only one I've heard of, they're pretty good. £10 was a damn good price for a weekend ticket - hope they did alright out of it |
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| MonsterMash |
Haha, I posted a big rant about Spit Like This and their t-shirts but I guess it isn't really "on topic" for this thread and I don't want to hijack it...
So... anyone else see Shadow Reichenstein play? Who else supported them - anyone worth checking out? |
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| thetallman |
Yeah. I took a measured decision - RHH nevers plays much out of London and it was good to support them on a non-London gig so they may do it again. The Academy 2 was about 60% full I think. I also have bad luck when I book holidays abroad - last year I missed H.U.G and this year (so far) I'll be missing Skintight Jaguars in B'ham....
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| thetallman |
Hello??? anyone go to the Stoke gig??
Meanwhile here's a link to a good chunk of videos from the London gig!
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=djwankstain |
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