Newcastle venues?

If the Lass O'gowrie is still going I quite enjoyed playing there.

The Cambridge is always popular.

Croatian Club. Contact user: alpsofmessandnoise

hamilton station hotel has shows too.

The Junkyard in maitland, 40 mins out of newie, is good if you are heading up that way.

The Lassis still going

Cheers, yeah we may be doing the Junkyard. Really inflexible with dates though, so finding booking a bit difficult.

Actually I also endorse the Hamilton Station, grand place.

hamilton station hotel has shows too.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS

I heartily endorse the Croatian Club.

Cool, I pmed alps.

Gee the Hamo's not that bad.

the original poster did ask what's good and i did hesitate before putting forward the hamiliton....seems like TR has had a bad experience there...

Vox Cyclops or Croat are the best.

There is an art space/gallery too whose name escapes me.

Arthive, which Grant Hunter from Crab Smasher is involved in (pm: eyeoftherobots)

Yes that's the one and Grant is a champion of a man

For future reference, if anyone is looking to come through here (and I'm not giving out web addresses or emails, you can use google or whatever's specified):

The Croatian Club (works for ''mess and noise'' and ''cyclic defrost'' style bands) - contact me

The Lass O'Gowrie (for folk, blues, reggae, country, or anything of the aforementioned mixed with rock) - no web contact. Look them up in the White Pages online and call them

The View Factory (more funk/jazz leaning, sometime do rock/indie stuff) - contact through myspace

The Cambridge Hotel (any genre of band who can pull 100+ people and make it worthwhile for themselves) - google them

The Hamilton Station Hotel (rock, punk, emo, metal. Most other genres fail here, too rough of a pub, gets avoided) - myspace

The Wickham Park Hotel (rock, blues, rock, blues) - booked by ''Big Apachee''. Google them.

The Bar On The Hill (University bar - only for triple j bands.) - ''Big Apachee''

Northern Star Hotel (mainly only works for quieter shows? Folk, etc. Has been a lot of post rock bands play there. I've played there a couple times and it was good. Generally only has shows for covers dudes/irish bands, but seem open to booking ''indie bands'') - No idea who books them now. But google it anyway.

I'm pretty sure that's all the venues that bands who play ''originals'' can play in this town. There are the nightclubs too of course, but I'm pretty sure you have to jump through hoops/possibly be a 60s/70s rock revival band on Modular to get shows at them.

Does the Croatian Club work for whothehell.net bands as well?

Vox Cyclops and ArtHive - don't hassle these guys without checking out Castings/Spanish Magic Records and Crab Smasher/Monstera Deliciosa Records. If you have not heard of these bands/labels, then you probably don't ''get'' what they do and are annoying them.

Vox Cyclops and ArtHive - don't hassle these guys without checking out Castings/Spanish Magic Records and Crab Smasher/Monstera Deliciosa Records. If you have not heard of these bands/labels, then you probably don't ''get'' what they do and are wasting their time.

stupid dodo crashing not loading internet

yes i would probably book a whothehell band shaun ya fuckin smartarse

rather book a hipsterrunoff band though

If it was determined by your personal taste in music you'd prefer to book a K-Zone band.

Yeah, I'd never shit on a venue for no good reason. This place had done minimal promo (no-one in the pub itself even knew bands were on!), we ended up on a bill with a ''hardcore'' band (think something like Slayer meets the Chili peppers by way of Killing Heidi), and the whole night ran about 2 hours late. We got on stage a bit past 1am to play to four of our most diehard fans ever/really really stoned guys. We made $42!

It's nice that Hamilton station is about halfway between Grafton and Lithgow prisons too. It appears to host a social mixer each week!

It was recommended to us by someone of good repute who is known for some questionable decisions. Hmmm...

vox cyclops is open to people who are (a) not fuckwits, and (b) are actually doing something of interest to people that are not in awe of the current third-wave shoegaze craze, or violent preppies that see music as a soundtrack for a social event or an excuse to take out their aggression against their parents who dolled out dollars instead of love.

contact: de.elevator@gmail.com

re: playing at ARThive, if you're coming through town and doing something interesting/worthwhile that might not suit some of the other venues listed above, feel free to contact us with your ideas. Please keep in mind that we're a volunteer run art gallery and not a pub, unfortunately we can't accommodate everybody.

This is the vibe.

email us at subjecthive@gmail.com

Still so amazed by that cape.

i'll play anywhere if nick french is in the audience :)

The guy in the photo looks like he's playing along to iTunes.

i think that's a chick. .... i think. pretty funny one according to the babe in the audience.

this is a helpful thread. A-

looks like brutal hate mosh

alps, i think big apachee book northern star - or at least they did.

if anyone ever plays at the cambo, there is a really good chance i will be your doorbitch, so drop me a pm and say hi beforehand.

Croatian Club is fun.

Hey everyone, I've had too many bands writing me asking if they can have shows in the last two days since this thread went up, please, please, don't send me pm's on mess and noise. If you are a serious band send me an email for chrissakes to pastfuturespresents@gmail.com .

Also, I probably shouldn't have to say it, but like most venues nearly everywhere in the world, please don't write asking for a show this week or this month, it's not going to happen, us people who organise shows always work at least a month ahead and try to stay up to three months ahead when we can.

I played the Croatian Club, got verbally abused by a hippy whilst playing, and had to help make the pizza. It was pretty great (no sarcasm).

that wasn't just a hippy, that was peter hoare dude. he's pretty famous, y'know

you should make a perter hoare thread for non newcastle people. i'm sure there are good stories, 'cause he was pretty damn crazy

he's pretty famous nationally, perhaps even internationally dude. still a ripe pain the arse wikipedia

haha, that was a hilarious read. i think his problem with us was that we were using electricity to power out electric instruments and vocal p.a.

he must have thought we were shit. fair enough

*our

nah, he rarely has a political agenda. for the most part of the last few years he's been in newcastle he's appeared publicly as the character ''shock'' who basically just disrupts anything. he's banned from every venue in town for the same thing. croat is pretty light on security guards, though.