Blender - Raise The Roof!

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Ila
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Blender - Raise The Roof!

Post by Ila » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:01 pm

Autumn has come and the rainiest season is upon us. Help The Forest mending the roof before all of the lovely volunteers drown! The roof needs fixey fixey, and therefore we throw a 4-day long mini festival!

We will open every day TILL 3am and we will be FULLY LICENSED.
All concerts are free!
Read more at www.theforest.org.uk

Here is the smashing programme:

THURSDAY 5th NOVEMBER

We have live bands in the Café all night:
- Martin Boland & Mike Bennet - multitalented musicians
- Devils & Medals – blues band
- Sons of Fionn - an eight piece folk band (www.myspace.com/sonsoffionn)
- Manje - Manje means now and now is the time for this tasty melting pot of world sounds (www.melvitronica.com/manje)

FRIDAY 6th NOVEMBER

The Forest presents Jiggery Fuckery in the Cafè. Jiggery Fuckery is one of the monthly parties at The Forest, and a fucking amazing one too!

In the Hall:
- New Urban Frontier - Politically charged noise for the new generation (www.myspace.com/newurbanfrontier)
- White Heath - one of the best "alternative" acts in Scotland (www.myspace.com/whiteheath)
- Fox Gang - add punked-up reggae and pop and Fox Gang is ready to rock! (www.myspace.com/foxganger)
+ tba

SATURDAY 7th NOVEMBER

In the Hall:
Amazing music in the Hall by The Bridge Rectifier - a collective of artists who produce original electronic dance music. An unique opportunity to hear new live styles, the only rules being NO vinyl, cd or mp3! (www.thebridgerectifier.com)

In the Café:
- Witches revenge – raw angry punk girls
Plastick Fork Night with
- Naughty Boys - The elusive and enigmatic Naughty Boys get together for a session of live, improvised, performance. Poems vs computers vs drums vs salvaged keyboards and whatever else they can find.
- Cosmic Dork
- Lipsync For A Lullaby - (www.myspace.com/lipsyncforalullaby

SUNDAY 8th NOVEMBER

In the Café:
Reggae Sunday - Reggae Sunday is back! Improvisatorial reggae that will make you move your feet!

Ila
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Re: Blender - Raise The Roof!

Post by Ila » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:39 pm

Sorry guys

We've just discovered that the license is just till 1am :-(

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Re: Blender - Raise The Roof!

Post by milk » Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:03 am

i've added this text to the news item on the website
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Re: Blender - Raise The Roof!

Post by Stephen » Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:06 pm

Has this been done as facebook invitation as well, can we send to peoples inbox, thats how ten tracks got me.

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Re: Blender - Raise The Roof!

Post by Ila » Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:48 pm

I put the info everywhere: facebook, website, bb, forestspeak mailing list... and all my scottish friends...
can we do more? (on the net I mean?)

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Re: Blender - Raise The Roof!

Post by milk » Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:45 pm

http://www.theskinny.co.uk/forums - also good for online promotion

by inbox do you mean the Forestspeaks mailing list? i don't have admin access to this, though it would be good if someone could help send out a post to it.
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Re: Blender - Raise The Roof!

Post by swithun » Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:34 am

Back to 3am for closing. Adjust your wallets accordingly.

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