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Jym |
| Posted: Aug 30 2003, 01:35
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Driving an hour to go to an upstairs room in a
sports hall of a huge Rochdale school is not where you expect
to spend your usual Friday nights! But this is where you found
me tonight amongst the hundred or so ‘mini moshers’ out for
the weekly fix of gigs and music. It’s a really good set up
here if a little impersonal.
^Chairmen Of The Bored. Copyright: Jym Harris
2003
^ Ben of
Chairmen Of The Bored. Copyright: Jym Harris
2003
After watching a fairly average metal band and
a quite terrible punk band both with line ups with the average
age of around 14 it was time for the nights main event,
Rochdale’s own boys ‘Chairmen of The Board’
^James of Chairmen Of The Bored. Copyright: Jym
Harris 2003
These 3 lads, good looking buggers too
(bastards!) played top notch Green Day/Blink 182 (as they
later admit) pop punk fare. The band steamed through the first
three songs with little or no interaction with the crowd. This
should be something that needs working on and should come with
gigging experience.
^Ben of Chairmen
Of The Bored. Copyright: Jym Harris 2003
The Blink
cover of 'Dammit' showed off their excellent vocals and
actually sounded better than seeing the real thing live at
Leeds Festival last week. Though sometimes it did seem lacking
in other places, like they where trying to remember parts to
songs. This caused a problem especially on their last number
as lead singer Ben forgot the last chorus until bassist James
took over.
All in all a band with some serious
potential, a bit of a rough diamond that will be moulded and
shaped with experience and touring. Though if tonight’s 40
minute set was anything to go by it won’t take them
long.
Chairmen Of The Bored - 3.5/5
Jym Harris
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silentrob147 |
| Posted: Aug 30 2003, 06:06
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oooh the jym has been to the backdoor, not
really worth travelin a hour for a is it
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The Fractions
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natskin |
| Posted: Aug 31 2003, 01:18
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I thought i'd reply to your review and explain
why we had those "crap bands" on, the aim of The Backdoor
Project is to bring bands here to play, keep the door price
down for the kids, and to educate their music tastes. We also
like to encourage the kids to get into bands and play also.
The bands that played there the other night it was all their
second gig ever, i didn't think that that did that bad
considering. The night was thrown on at the last minute due to
the fact that the veue pulled The Splitters, and Smoke like a
Fish because that they didn't think that we could cover their
asking price.This is because The Backdoor numbers have been
down lately and we were taking less money on the door than the
bands were asking for.We are a non-profit company and any
money left over is saved up and we put on music projects where
kids get to learn music skills and form bands. This is where
GRAEME got together with The Fractions and we have pushed them
forward as much as we can. Over the last year we have been
putting on mainly punk and ska bands and our "mini Moshers"
have been left out in the cold, they want metal bands to play
and they also want to see their friends "crap bands" also
playing...hence the local band showcase. Our next gig will be
for the "mini Moshers" when "sugarcoma" come to play on 26th
september, the local support will be Seven Second Burn and
Jonestown Massacre, £5 on the door all ages. |
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natskin |
| Posted: Aug 31 2003, 01:21
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| QUOTE (silentrob147 @ Aug 30 2003, 06:06
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| oooh the jym has been to
the backdoor, not really worth travelin a hour for a is
it |
Rob i think your comment
is childish and you should remember that we were the ones that
helped you guys from the start and still do!!!! The Backdoor
keeps those kids away from rochdale's Streets and you know how
bad they can be...Ha Ha |
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Jym |
| Posted: Aug 31 2003, 01:29
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What you’re doing at the Backdoor is very
commendable and I wish we’d have had something like this in
Bradford when I was 14, it would have made my life and my
folks life a lot easier than worrying about me in strange
unsupervised venues like T&C in Leeds.
To put on
local bands is the best way forward as well not only do they
get a good band to put on their CV but supporting also helps
them learn stage craft. And from a venues point of view brings
in punters and they don’t demand such huge
fees.
Everything you lot have done is very commendable
and anything like this deserves support, just because I
expressed my opinion on a couple of supports doesn’t mean I
don't appreciate the hard work that goes into find and funding
events like this.
Good luck with the Sugarcoma gig in
a few weeks as I’ve seen them before and they will go down a
storm with the ‘mini-moshers’ and any help you wish to have
from me or anyone at theSka is gladly given i.e. band contacts
for lots of music types or merchandise etc.
And also i
never mentioned "crap bands" anywhere in the post i called
'fairly average' and 'quite terrible' meaning that the metal
band werent crap, i'm not that harsh and because I didnt
really see the point of 'name and shaming' on a ska website I
left their names off! |
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mick |
| Posted: Aug 31 2003, 02:53
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Nat a note to let you know how much you (and
Eddie) are appreciated for the work you do for the backdoor,
and the bands which have evolved directly from your efforts do
you credit , and the service you give to the youth of Rochdale
is enormous. And some of the bands youve put on have been
outstanding , battleska , spunge , zen baseballbat , whitmore
, skank like frank , stuntface , and loads more.
And a
thank you for giving Joe the oppertunity to be in a band and
compose and perform music , and for all the gigs you keep
putting his way , please dont let robs comments cast a shadow
over your opinion of the rest of the band, They Need You
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Yours Joes Dad
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