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How the nights runs...

• 3-4 bands and 1-2 singer/songwriters performing.
• There are 2 sets, each act gets to perform three songs in each half. This gives every one a fair chance to impress the whole audience and not just their friends that they bring along.

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Q. How much?

• £5 advance tickets (£7 on the door) Entry is automatic membership to the site when you give your email address!
  

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Q. Can I have a gig?

• If you or your band wish to play at any of our UK gigs, then Contact Us and we will endeavor to put you onto our roster. These venues are quite big so you gotta be good and you gotta have a following. We want our nights to become the best nights in London and that can only be done through consistently putting on good bands.






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Q. Do we get paid?



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• As with all unsigned nights and especially in central London venues we are competing against well established venues and signed Artists so we always ask the bands that play to help play a part in attempting to get a crowd down to our night. This means that we send you 50 tickets (unlike other promoters we DONT expect you to sell them) and for every ticket you pre sell you get to keep £2.00 of the £5.00 ticket price.
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  The rest of the money is used to cover the door staff, soundman, our booking staff etc. We DON'T make money on the bar, we organise these nights to help promote the website for new acts www.bandrepublic.com.
  

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LSE gig photos






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Other UK gig photos




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LONDON
LSE (London School of Economics - The Quad, Houghton Street, Aldwych, WC2A 2AE

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ZIGFRID von UNDERBELLY, 11 Hoxton Square, N1 6NU
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THE HAVEN, Ealing, 1a Haven Green, Ealing, W5 2UU
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BRISTOL
JOE PUBLICS, Beacon House, 3 Queens Avenue, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1QU
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SOUTHEND
CLIFFS PAVILLION, Station Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend, SS0 7RA
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LEEDS
THE WARDROBE, 6 St Peter's Square, Leeds, LS
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REVIEWS

Lisa Parker (www.myspace.com/lisaparker2)

We all know that there is a hard edge to live music. Beyond a certain point, suspicion and hostility can kick in and the whole commercial enterprise takes over. If you are serious about live music then log on to Band Republic who are firmly behind the notion of an unsigned band getting into the top 40. Check out the philosophy-just a bit different,just a bit more caring. If you like what you read then lend your support. The gigs I've reviewed are fun-why not turn up?
Ultimately we get the music industry we choose ....and perhaps deserve.'
Lisa Parker, Review - 2008

Band Republic 12th March LSE Soliss
Thursday night at the LSE proved something that I've long believed in...that music has an energy of its own-something alive and breathing. Soliss-a band from Southend proved this theory conclusively by filling the LSE with energy from their very first musical note.In doing so,they not only raised their own performance but that of every other person in the place.I suspect that if their 50 or so fans had turned up (I'll come back to this later)then the roof would have come off. The passion they conveyed through their music made their performance seem effortless. They were simply having the time of their lives.We all know that this is partly down to sheer hard graft but whatever it was- it infected and sustained the entire audience including a member of Ashnode who simply responded with some of the best dance moves that I've ever seen. Soliss told me that they 'gauge audience reaction and respond accordingly' and that their aim is ' to win over everyone in the room'. What they may not recognise is their own humility. They allow music to work through their combined talents and then share it with whoever is listening. For this reason it was impossible to single out any one song as being the best-the whole performance simply segued into a glorious whole. As for the fans who missed out-this is directed at the unnamed driver working for an unnamed coach company who apparently deliberately stranded 50 paid up fans because they might have trashed his coach. If this is so- then somewhere in your murky little soul you need to recognise what you missed- respect,courtesy,thoughtfulness,gratitude,warmth and above all generosity of spirit.I know this because I talked to the band. I know because they shared equipment with other bands on the night and offered practical support.My work has a wide audience-and now mr coach driver -so have you!

Band Republic 12th March LSE Prima Donna
Prima Donna played their first gig for Band Republic-no mean feat considering that they are LSE students. When speaking to them, I was very aware of the connections running between the individual band members. In my notes I recorded a series of adjectives-principled,thoughtful,generous,honest, uncompromising,resilient,trusting,able to fight and able to make up again. It didn't all come through on the night. In some ways it couldn't-the descriptions I've used can only form some kind of future template for their success. The first set was a bit of a struggle-the version of 'Oh Well' was an excellent start but their performance only really caught fire in the second set,once they had allowed themselves to relax into the energy that their audience was providing in bucketloads. There was a feeling of fragmentation at times-fine if you're after a quirky and edgy sound but confusing if you're not.We kept getting glimpses of what this band could be like in the future-they have originality and a potentially strong stage presence. They clearly believe in each other-they now need to believe in themselves as a whole and above all to trust in what their audience is trying to say to them-that you have the talent to go a very long way.

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Gigs coming up in September, update coming soon!