will make it to be that big!
you're lucky.

makes me think of all the awful business studies projects i used to do at school. it makes it sounds like they have no passion for music of any kind whatsoever.

egham's nearest city is staines.... says it all i think.

lovely place, just creatively rather boring, in rural surrey.
London's close-ish, but still.

is part of the university of london.
plus i live in london outside of uni, so i party in the holidays etc.
and london's only half an hour away by train.

another, cheaper city.

my uni is in london. and there is a severe lack of an awesome music scene going around.

we figured we'd do it for our uni because, for now, it's alot cheaper (one of the bands includes me, the other are friends= no charge) AND Royal Holloway students i think need something else (everyone is always complaining).
if it goes well we may start to expand, but we're keeping it small scale for now.

im stuck at the same uni as Neecho. We're trying to bring the party to us. it sucks being so close to london and kingston, but having to be restricted to catching last train home. its not all bad. just have to work out which ldn venues kick out in time to make it home!

at Canterbury. I think he gets sad when I tell him all of the wonderful Manchester things. He and his mates just try to get to London when they can too.

for a year, and then left because it's on a hill in the middle of nowhere and populated almost exclusively by dickheads.

I wouldn't bother if I was you - there is really no 'music scene' to speak of, unless you're interested in cheese, or cheesy drum 'n bass. Occaisionaly the Union will have The Twang or The Pigeon Detectives... How they treat us.

Also as another poster said, it is frequeted by dickheads, and in the middle of nowhere.

Stoke is ok, gigs wise, but don't expect to gig further afield at night unless you can drive. Last train home is before 10 from both Manchester and Birmingham.

Offbeat, Rave Soc open decks, fuzz club and plug/leadmill on decent nights, sounds like you just need better friends!

They had a band night and it seemed to consist entirely of rubbish emo bands, making me think about starting a band despite not even being able to play an instument.

I really should get Rich to start paying me for mentioning them as frequently as possible on here. But then he'd only pay me in dirty manber love.

At Reading now and the best thing we've had this year was LC! at Plug n Play. The uni itself has local bands playing on monday nights I think, nothing good though. Then even worse we get The Twang playing. But I agree, best thing to do is take the train to London or Oxford.

back in 2005, we had gigs, free tickets, loads of stuff. Then again, I was treasurer and financed stuff

wonder what happened

Id hardly say its thriving, theres been a couple of gigs AT the uni, most of them are a requirement of the 'popular music and record production' course!
Get yourself along to Joiners for some more decent bands.

to get a night going when I'm at plymouth uni next year, music scene there seems pretty non existant!

that no uni music scene is worse than St Andrews. I promise. One live gig per year, during Freshers Week. The last two years it's been Gina G and the The Pigeon Detectives. No one and I mean no one, has any interest in music whatsoever. And it's too far away from Edinburgh and Glasgow to make going to shows there viable.

The closest we have to a music scene is my anthropology lecturer who listens to Om and Boris.