Ska Mutiny gig?

Suggest some places and everyone in a band raise your hand!

I'll say Wales just because it's easier for me to get there, but that's probably not very central to everyone else. But I could drive to England I suppose. I'll do it for the ska, man!

i think we should do this scientifically, we should take the locations of all members and average out the locations, nearest city to that is where we should host it.

(fyi, should we host a party for the whole world, it would be held in East India)

so if i got a whole bunch of leicestershire people to join up theoretically it'll be closer to my location? haha

we could have a small serie of gigs, like surface unsigned works. south west, london area, midlands, wales and north. if we could find enough bands for all the gigs though

hows that for an incentive to get people to the site?

i am mint, this idea pwns

didnt we agree with the skacommunity party that it would be best in leeds, due to shed load of people living in leeds, and most people living on the m1/a1 coridoor, pluss you london scum can mega bus it up for cheeeep

and the M62 goes through Leeds
The most punk rock motorway in England.

leeds sounds good. only an hour n a half away, probably took longer than that to get to our brum gig the other day



lateAugust? gives at least 2 months preparation/promotion and it's after any exams but before any schools/colleges/unis start back.

thats a pretty damn cool idea fair play!

Fuck it. Festival damn it.

Another vote for festival here.
Give me a stage at this festival to choose bands for and stuff. Hells yeah.

It's all well and good saying "Yay festival!" but in reality that's a lot of hard work to organize. Not that I want to shit on anyone's parade.

One night would be good though.

I think everyones missing a major point here. we have 100 users. about 30 of those(at a massive stretch) are actively posting. about 20 of those are in bands. that leaves 10 people to pay for the bands that are gonna play some petrol and a venue. £25 a ticket sound good to everyone yeah?
basically its a good idea in theory but its not workable at all until we have a much larger active userbase or a big headliner to pull in a crowd that doesnt know about this place.
Dont even get me started on the logistics of a festival.

doesn't have to be aimed at just forum members, there'll be lots of decent bands playing, promote it enough at we'll get a decent turnout and mayeb even some new forum members.

festival might be a bit much for now hahaha, stage at rebellion next year? =P


edit: i was actually thinking earlier get a headliner in to pull a crowd, if we could get reel big fish we're set xD

I think if we could get someone like SB6 in on this (the website as a whole, not just the gig) word of this place would spread a lot better. We already have Random Hand who have a large fanbase but we need more.

The Amazing Fletch wrote:I think if we could get someone like SB6 in on this (the website as a whole, not just the gig) word of this place would spread a lot better. We already have Random Hand who have a large fanbase but we need more.

random hand + sonic boom six + forum bands = hell of an alldayer

MangoSkeejykins wrote:

The Amazing Fletch wrote:I think if we could get someone like SB6 in on this (the website as a whole, not just the gig) word of this place would spread a lot better. We already have Random Hand who have a large fanbase but we need more.

random hand + sonic boom six + forum bands = hella expensive

Fixed. Like I say eventually it would be good but its not the time to be doing this. we need to build on the forum as it is before doing a gig of some type.

i think festival is definitely way way in future lol but i think a small gig is doable at some point , definitely not late august tho cos im at leeds fest

I mean if we could get them to mention the site at gigs or on their own website and shizzle then we could probably get more hits.

I downloaded this music video thing for my PS3 today and I searched for ska bands. It came up with Madness, Aswad, No Doubt and the King Blues. I hate to say it but the King Blues would make for some good hits given their new mainstream success.

how about until we can get actual skamutiny gigs we have ska mutiny 'sponsored' gigs. i know some of you organise gigs, myself included, we can just organise a night like normal but whack skamutiny name/logo on flyers and give it a shout out? nothing to lose, members to gain

Yeah it wouldn't be hard to stick the logo that we have at the top of the site and a web address in the bottom right corner of flyers. I'm certainly doing it next time I put on a ska gig.

Ska Mutiny flyers on their own would be a good idea. Especially for events like rebellion or large gigs like the Specials.

STICKERS. get on to phantom screen print and get stickers done. those of us in bands are shooting up and down the country all the time, we can give them out with our nerch, stick them at venues, around towns, all that sorta stuff. if we all have a massive promotion slurge then we can start thinking seriously about a big gig. html banners for myspace.. all that stuff... but yea im agreeing with everyone else, we need to majorly raise the profile of the site before any big gigs. but we cna use little gigs to do that.

tyrannosaurusben wrote:STICKERS

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Fucking that.

has no one actually read the ska mutiny merch thread?

I'm pretty sure I mentioned that I'm ordering stickers next week as well as t-shirts and badges.