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managed to miss the unabombers at the social on the sunday
and exciting stuff on saturday at embassy rooms simply
through not knowing about it because you can't find out
unless you see a flyer. grrrrr.
i need proper info, updates and i don't live there ! i live in
manchester !! but am always in london (2 wknds out of 4)!!!!

which good/cool sites keep you bang up-to-date
with all that stuff ?

and ooh does anyone know what's on at the social this friday ?

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

i'll ask again shall i ?

― piscesboy, Monday, 3 November 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a constant source of irritation that there doesn't seem to exist online, a well-updated London/UK bar/club/gig guide. I simply refuse to believe there isn't one, but equally I'm fucked if I can find one anywhere. I signed up to thisislondon.co.uk, the Evening Standard's thing, in the hope that it'd be like Metro Life but bigger and better, and it's, er, smaller and worse.

Boggling. Perhaps I shall start a blog which just updates whenever I find anything out, as my own personal rolling Word document gig guide does. Would there be any interest in such a thing?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

yes

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.irlondon.co.uk/gigguide/index.php

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, that's actually really good, on first viewing. Is it independent? Looks like it. The problem I've found with all online resources thus far, is that they all seem to be affiliated to some group of promoters or other, so you miss stuff.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

well see we're laughing pretty much
oop here in manchester-on-the-wold, as the town is so small
it means anything cool is flagged up /known about months in advance usually.

also there's this, which is reasonably good :

http://www.manchester.com/ad/html/clubs/

but typically, the capital doesn't have one as they don't seem to have mastered the web yet.
it behoves us to remember at this juncture that the computer was invented in manchester !

― piscesboy, Monday, 3 November 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

irlondon's alright, but I'm pretty sure it only goes by headliners: I seem to remember searching it for a gig I knew was going to happen and coming up with nothing because it didn't admit to the existence of support bands.

I've heard good things of Ents24, though I think they may have recently become affiliated to ticketweb (so now I'm a bit dubious).

― cis (cis), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Might this be of any use?

http://www.londonmusic.blogspot.com/

It's basically a very simple transcript of a Word document I keep on my desktop, updating whenever I notice something of interest coming up.

Thoughts?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

BUMP for SteveM and anyone else who may give a shit.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 6 November 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I have GOT to move back to London and live with the olds, there's nothing else for it after seeing charlie's London guide. I'm missing far too much living in the frozen wilds of Manchester. I even managed to miss bloody Chicks on Speed the other night at Band on the Wall.

Dammit.

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Thursday, 6 November 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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