Ack!!

[djpsyche]

So I'm trying to get Frankenstein a London gig to go along with their Whitby appearance and every goddam venue is booked!

Water Rats - booked
Purple Turtle - booked
Dublin Castle - won't do outside promotions
On the Rocks - booked
Metro - waiting for them to get back to me
Bar Academy - waiting for them to get back to me <- now this would be nice actually!
Upstairs at the Garage - booked
Upstairs at the Marquee - not going THERE again!
The Verge - sold :(

And then there's the "too big and/or expensive category", which are probably all booked by this point too. I know it's cutting it close to the bone for a late April gig, but they just announced Whitby so I didn't have a lot of warning myself.

Anyone else know of any decent, reasonably central, 100-200 capacity venues that can host bands, that might be available? Otherwise I think I'm going to have to bag the idea :/

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[amandamaesteele.livejournal.com]

G lounge in camden - I know paul has a gig booked there. Dunno about costs and stuff but it might be worth checking out

[mydyingmachine.livejournal.com]

Best of luck...Never new you were promoting again so soon :)

[amandamaesteele.livejournal.com]

oh and maaaaaaaybe the 12 bar though that maaay be booked

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

The Buffalo Bar in Highbury? That's a nice little venue.

The Hope and Anchor in Highbury is possibly a bit too small but I dunno. I'm not sure what the capacity actually is.

The 12 Bar Club, off Charing Cross Road? I'm not sure if they have a music policy, I haven't ever seen a goth/deathrock band there, but it's about the right size...

Buffalo Bar

[djpsyche.livejournal.com]

Is a nice little venue, run by right c*nts who wouldn't let me give away wine at my own expense even after I made them a grand at their bar, and threw a right fit at me about it.
Hope & Anchor is indeed too small, as is the Betsey Trotwood. I will check out that 12 Bar place, thanks!

[amandamaesteele.livejournal.com]

Oh and the Boston Arms in Tufnall Park is a fair old decent size and I hear thats quite cheap

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

The 100 Club on Oxford Street is pretty small (I am crap at judging spaces though so I have no idea how many people would fit) - where Siouxsie played a year ago or so?

[djpsyche.livejournal.com]

If Siouxsie played there, I definitely can't afford it! Ha ha

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

It's really tiny though, they usually have jazz stuff on these days I think. I assumed it was just so expensive as they hiked up the prices for Siouxsie as they knew everyone would pay it anyway!

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Madame Jo Jo's?
Upstairs at Islington Academy
That place in Angel they used to have Dead and Buried

[djpsyche.livejournal.com]

1- Madame Jo Jo's is too expensive and booked every Thursday by Frank Flag. Great space though
2- yes that's called Bar Academy, I am chasing them hard!
3- there is no sound system there

[sumnaa.livejournal.com]

oh and bar academy are cunts.

[sumnaa.livejournal.com]

Frank will put them on somewhere - give him a buzz : 02084504506

[mark13.livejournal.com]

Hm, people seem to have mentioned most of the obvious ones. Barfly/Monarch, maybe?

[djpsyche.livejournal.com]

Barfly are complete snobs and won't talk to you unless you're the newest coolest trendy band about to be discovered by NME.

[mark13.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is true, although they do change their tune if they're having trouble getting gigs in. Difficult to be snobbish if you need to keep the bar take up, I guess.

Going further afield, you could try the Half Moon in Putney, or maybe Cargo in Hoxton, the Spitz even.

Failing that, I think they do the odd gig at the Albert Hall... ;)

[ladycat.livejournal.com]

The White Horse on Brixton Hill?
The Windmill on Brixton Hill?

I might be biased to the south...

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