But on the plus side I think the tide is turning and there is some amazing new music coming along and every tho i regret the purchase i got quite excited when I read the NME and saw all the albums that are due to be released in 2011, names including Arctic Monkey, The View, The Strokes, Kanye and Jay Z doing an album together, Damon Albarn, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Kills, Maccabees plus loads more, if you compare that to last year its going to be a great year, imagine the Reading and Leeds line up! My money is still on The Stroke to headline.
As for new music there are some great bands out there, bands like The Vaccines, Heartbreaks, Patch William, Younghearts, Supernovas, Krakatoa and plenty more.
Im hoping this is the wave of music that we have been needing for the last few years and it will push mainstream radio stations to play more home grown bands because there are plenty of great ones out there.
Since the new year its been manic currently promoting 5 nights in Swindon, booked up until April and of course there is Vienna, which as you all know I've been wanting my own night there for a long time and its turning out to be a great learning experience, a bit tougher than I thought but that's not always a bad thing, just getting all the posters and flyers printed at the moment, but what is brilliant is how friendly and helpful everyone has been and all the nice messages I've received makes all the long hours and emails worth while, the final line up has been decided sat for hours listening to bands and im really happy about the bands I've chose, hope everyone else likes them!
The gig is on March 7th at B72 but flying out on the Friday to do a dj set at flex and to meet up with everyone and buy them a few drinks to say thank you, then the weekend will just be promoting and thank you meals for the people who has helped me out as it wouldn't of been possible to do these night without them.
Planning the next one for start of June, I know who I want but we will have to wait and see....
As for the Swindon nights there going really well had a band called Bleech from London in December who was brilliant make sure you check them out if you can.
This month was ment to be Doll & the kicks but unfortuantly they have had to pulled most of there UK tour to record in America which is a brilliant opportunity for them and you cant blame them for taking it, but they still are doing a few of the dates and i still have them for Vienna so its not all bad.
Ive replaced them with the band called Patch William who i have been a fan of for a long time, there is a song called "Skinny White Boy" which i cant stop listening to.
Ive also got the London based band Younghearts playing in Feb which im really excited about as i think there something special and could go a long way.
So I think that takes me up to now, there is some things id love to mention but probably best I don't right now but maybe in the next few weeks ;)
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