Shadow of the Druid Promotions

24/09/2014

Hey out there, hope apparently works sometimes, as 'Area 53' will be joining us for our Autumn Equinox celebrations!

21/09/2014

The poster, and hopefully only some of the line up for our next gig!

21/09/2014

To any bands who can get their s**t together by Saturday, line up collapses mean there's still space on the bill 27th September. Scroll down to find my email address!

21/09/2014

Yeah well, I think the Haven could do with a real website (as much for administration as content structure) and so does 'Shadow of the Druid', so be on the lookout, its time to start sharing some of the recordings we've been making! In case anyone's wondering I'm a little scornful of facebook and blogging! Maskbook, more like!

21/09/2014

Chaos! At the Haven, in my Head! Well, least I'm riding it better! The Haven itself could be said to be struggling though! The guy who set the place up has had to step back, leaving uncertainty and some squabbling. The project and the space both have enormous potential, check out: http://www.thehavenbristol.wordpress.com/

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21/09/2014

Sorry to anyone who's tried to contact me through facebook, for now best to email me: [email protected]

18/06/2014

It's time again! Free gig at the Red Lion!

18/06/2014

The cycles of life and seasons turn; sadly 'Don King', the Haven's almost petable Polish cockerel got nabbed by a wily fox, so the upcoming summer solstice gig will also be his wake! The poster's gonna have to be in his honour too!

18/06/2014

Upheaval's in the Haven's official structures (good, but sorta stressful!) and where did those two months go? Preparations for this gig have been pretty much as hectic as for the first! Much respect to 'Volatile Idea' and 'Skinners' for stepping in when the original line up collapsed! But hey the recording thing looks like its gonna happen!

18/06/2014

Personally, I've always thought south-west England has something, a weird something that rides punk perfectly! I reckon if manic ears hadn't gone under it might have been Bristol, not Seattle. And wot about Riot City? Will Bristols punx rise again? If we're gonna put gigs on, wot about recording them? I've had these ideas about something I call the 'Artisans Work Trust for Empathic Promotion of Biodiversity', a work share co-op with a whole bunch of agendas, but for now you'll have to guess from the name! Anyway, I'm hoping Shadow of the Druid promotions will become the template co-op for this other plan! If we get a bunch of good recordings from gigs, well that's half way to a record company! If a bunch of people who love punk more, or at least as much as money are putting on gigs, with promoters doing a good job of facilitating bands, and not just 'putting them on', how long could bands be happy playing free gigs with their excellent atmosphere? How big can free gigs get? Where's the best step to paying gig's? (cos I reckon it's somewhere around where bands are starting to go national!) Maybe that's not even a big deal, the real question is how to get the dough for a vinyl press and somewhere to work it, unless some loyal band goes big and remembers us fondly? Oh the joy of daydreams! Ha! first there's the question of whether SOTD will do more than Haven benefits? Solstices and Equinoxes seem cute for our charity work (gotta pay karma if we want this to work! Madness will teach you that!). But maybe in between we could run some gigs where the bar take is shared between promoters and performers? Equal shares for maybe 4 promoters next to anything up to 20 performers? We'd have to be doing it for the love of punk! Hmm, I guess bands with any draw might need double or triple shares too...hmm but next, there'll be another Haven benefit!

18/06/2014

The first shadow of the druid gig was distinctly chaotic, at least from our side, but it was fun and it put a crucial shot into the Haven's cash flow! Our thoughts turned to the future...Did we want to go through that again?

18/06/2014

What do you do if there's nowhere you'd rather be than at one of the Red Lions chilled but energetic free gigs? And you're involved in a community project that could do with a bit more green? But putting on our own gig? How do you know unless you try? Easy!