"Excited by the idea of listening to hot new bands but cringe at the thought of the warm beer, plastic cups, sticky carpet and throngs of skinny androgynous creatures who make you feel out of place? Then The Rage events could be right up your street. Dubbed by the media as ‘Gigging for Grown Ups’, The Rage is a taste maker for new music. Its mantra is “New Music. Done Well”… where they take as much care of you as they do the music.
... Basically what happens is this: The Rage team scour sweaty gigs nightly searching for fresh new talent and recruit the cream of the crop for their events which are held in cool London venues. Events include a free bar serving premium drinks (with genuinely friendly staff), delicious food from quality caterers and nice little touches such as Krispy Kreme donuts (cleverly served at that point of the evening when you’re flagging and need a little sugar rush).
‘The Rage On In Summer’ takes place at the hip Cargo in EC2 (cargo-london.com) on Wednesday July 16th. Three acts will be playing live on the night: The Laurel Collective (‘ a genre trashing six piece who marry soulful vocals with percussion driven, rhythmic indie, wistful melodies and darkly humorous lyrics’); cult underground talent, Riz MC (recently appointed Emerging Artist in Residence at the Royal Festival Hall); and The Outside Royalty a six piece ‘indie-electro-chamber rock band’ whose debut single has been produced by Phil Vinall (Radiohead, Pulp, Placebo, Elastica).
Tickets are £75 per head. Where else in London can you go for a night of free flowing booze, good food, cutting edge entertainment AND free donuts for seventy five quid?"
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where else ?
er nowhere that's where
that looks truly cancerous.
symbolic of everything that is wrong in music today.
I'd like to know the scientific formula
they've used to caluculate at which part of an evening like this that I'd be flagging.
hmmm
they'll probably coming running over with a plate when they see you in the corner fondling the fire extinguisher.
Just run that by me again
It's a gig in a Hoxtonite venue with food as well as a bar and the bill is three bands you might have vaguely heard of, and it's £75?
Free bar.
I'm trying to work out if I could drink £75 worth of booze in an evening.
It's EC2
Four pints should do it.
of course you could
alcohol poisoning/a night in the cells might be for desert instead of krispy kremes though
premium booze
haha!
Bargain
Booze with doughnuts?
If it would have been crisps I would have been there. I don't mix sweet with booze.
I might go
and perform an impromptu GG Allin-style act midway through the evening, complete with self administered-enema in front of the donut stand.
Seventy five quid?
WTF!!
I can see this being a complete success.
What a load
of cocking shitass.
tbf
it's not aimed at proles like you.
it's aimed at city types with disposable income who work 15 hour days in front of a spreadsheet, and want to feel hip.
It must have been a success
As these have been going on for quite some time now - I remember seeing these advertised months possibly a year ago
this is so wrong it's almost right
What is a
'indie-electro-chamber rock band’?
they play synth in a coffin?
*shrugs*
indie band
with synths and antiquated instruments
and FREE donuts for SEVENTY FIVE QUID!
Makes me want to throw up. I hope they get an obligatory punch in the face on entry as party of that seventy five quid too.
anyone who attends this event
will talk through everything and then complain if the bands don't sound like James Blunt.
and, obv, they will all be complete cunts too.
Bet they're too busy swapping business cards to even touch the donuts.
"The Outside Royalty"
Only have 2 bookings on their Myspace. The other is Z008! anyone else see a pattern here?
http://www.myspace.com/theoutsideroyalty
I tried to get them for Zonino 3
I really like them.
Do they play synths
in coffins?
See above
There's one born every minute.
If folk are dumb enough to spend 75 quid for what looks to be a routine night out, then good luck to them.
As this event takes place in Cargo, if last week's Why? concert is any guide, £60 of the bill will be for the gas mask that each person will have to wear to combat the stench.
They're a decent band, despite their association with cuntery like this
They do a very, very good cover of Eleanor Rigby
The Outside Royalty
have been playing quite a few gigs round london, to be fair.
and the laurel collective seem to gig every week.
Both
The Outside Royalty and the Laurel Collective are quite good.
But not worth paying 75 quid for, obv.
holy shit!
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"skinny androgynous creatures"
The whole concept is profoundly depressing
It's not "Gigging for Grown Ups," it's "Gigging for Twats"
However
if there actually is a market for them to scam £75 pp from twats who can afford it, you can't really blame them for trying. They're probably laughing their heads off throughout the whole thing.
If they can market this properly
it might not die on its ass. Empasis on *might*
Hope the bands are getting paid a fair chunk of change though!
I think it's quite a good idea for the right crowd
I actually know a few people I went to university with who are vaguely into 'indie guitar music', but work for banks / management consultancies / insurance companies and always say to me 'I don't know what's going on anymore.' Reckon they'd lap this up - make it an office outing.
Probably only as many twats at a night like this than at your standard Cargo knees-up.
That last sentence
is sadly probably true
I'd agree with all that
I was thinking that the idea might have more legs with a normal bar and cheaper entry price though. But then it probably wouldn't appeal so much to the city types - £75 is enough to keep us plebs out.
£75?
do you get unlimited crispy creams?
or only when you seem to be 'flagging',
might be possible to get a group to chip in for 75, and have one go in and smuggle doughnuts and booze out for all!!
I think I'm the kind of person they're aiming at ...
... old, fat, reasonably well paid job. They miss my custom on three key points though :
1. I can go to about five gigs for that price AND afford my own "doughnuts" (I presume that's slang for some sort of drugs)
2. Perving on the "skinny androgynous creatures" is all part of the experience.
3. Laurel Collective are shit.
if krispycreme=drugs
I'd want my money back
srsly
I'd go.
I'm not scared of losing indie point, i don't like sweaty gigs, or shit warm beer, or plastic cups, or loads of emo kids. I'd like to watch gigs in nice comfortable surrounds, ideally sat down and with easy access to the bar. Would i pay £75, no, £10 maybe.
You can do that at the Barfly in Camden ...
...they give you a hand stamp, so between the bands, you can go over the road to the Monarch, which has comfy seat and better beer. Similarly with th Fly by Tottenham Court Road (the excellent Bloomsbury is opposite). I'm sure there are plenty of other examples ...
white heat
and the sam smiths just down the road
LOL.
^^
seconded.
I emailed this
around to a couple of people as a serious offer
serious replies back saying they might go to something like this
Once a year.
Not once a month though. I reckon some of my work colleagues would do it as an outing, but not as a regular event.
I don't like my gigs scrubbed clean thank you very much. And only 1/8th of KK donuts are actually worth eating.
agree about the doughnuts....
don't like the jam ones..jam is too rich..
i like he apple ones...only the apple ones. even though im allergic to apples.
unfortunately this would be the only way i would be able to get some people to go see live bands.
If they did have some good bands it might be worth it...
and a lot of these types spend more than 75 in shitty west in clubs talking shit each other. So at least if you went to this and there was a good band*
you can ignore the rest, grab all the dougnuts and sit in a corner.
*(its possible, but then again if a band i liked played this thing i would judge them very harshly)
This is a shit idea
and the fact that they actually literally punched you in the gob makes it even worse!
you can get tickets for 25 quid
http://www.cantaloupegroup.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?products_id=751&osCsid=fe6cd3eed032b3cf6d3c9a8d65f4d00f
forget about everything else.
but anyone can drink more than 25 quids worth in hoxton
I'd only pay £75 if...
Pink Floyd are playing.
Raabish
Sounds bloody awful. It's half a festival!
This is roughly the same price
As aTom Waits ticket. Cunts.
these have been going on for a while
and they've been a huge success.
mainly because it keeps out people like the denizens of this board.
lol.
newsflash: people don't like you.
THAT'S EVERYONE.
THANKS FOR CLARIFYING.
Your site is helping me a lot
I'm sure this is pretty much right.
It's basically gig-going for people who don't like going to gigs.
Still ludicrously expensive for what you're getting though.
newsflash: people don't like you.
That's hardly news...
What's a denizen?
it means people who frequent
or take up residance somewhere
NEWSFLASH
DING DING DING
DING
i knew i should put that last one in