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Article written by A SoundsXP writer
Feb 18, 2005.

Here you will find links to

1 WEBZINES AND BOARDS
2 PHOTOS
3 RADIO ON THE NET
4 BANDS
5 RECORD LABELS
6 VENUES
7 TICKET VENDORS
8 CLUB NIGHTS
9 MUSICIAN RESOURCES

1 WEBZINES AND BOARDS

Artrocker

Comes With A Smile

Diskant -reviews and columns

Do Something Pretty - lovely little indie zine

Drowned in Sound - reviews and a half decent London gig guide

NME - website for ‘Britain's number one selling weekly music paper’ (e.g. it’s the only one): ringtones, t-shirts, shopping, some news and possibly a review of the odd album….

Organart - plenty of reviews, some excellent

Pop Bitch - rant and stories, some may even be true!

Rockfeedback - excellent indie resource

Rolling Stone - good resource for band pictures

Splendid - pretty good coverage of new bands

Twee Net - It's the official World Wide Web site of the indiepop mailing list, with info on bands old and new that may be considered 'twee'

Velvet Rope - US message boards for the music industry


2 PHOTOS

Underexposed - excellent London gig photo resource


3 RADIO ON THE NET

Indie MP3 Internet Radio (@ Live 365 com) - listen to loads of spiffing indie selected by our own old indie kid

BBC Radio 1 Peel Sessions- Details of the sessions from 1992-2002 for the John Peel show

BBC Radio 6 - Auntie Beebs alternative digital radio station.

Resonance FM


4 BANDS so many to choose from but here’s some to be going on with...

Art Brut

Babyshambles

Bloc Party

Broken Family Band

Dogs

Fiery Furnaces

The Libertines

Long Blondes

Ludes

Magic Numbers

Metro Riots

Of Montreal

The Rakes

Piney Gir

The Rocks

Rogers Sisters

Scha-La-Las

5 RECORD LABELS

Angular Records

Cooking Vinyl

Double Dragon

Filthy Little Angels

Fortuna Pop

Pop of the Tops - Not a label as such but a collective/bunch of people seriously intent on promoting new music…starting with New Cross SE14

Track and Field

Wichita Recordings


6 VENUES

(Carling) Academy - Brixton
211 Stockwell Road
London SW9 9SL
Tel 020 7771 3000
Tickets: Ticketweb 0870 771 2000 24 hours
0870 771 2000 24 hours


(Carling) Academy - Islington
N1 Centre
16 Parkfield Street
London N1 0PS
Tel 020 7288 4400
Tickets: Ticketweb 0870 771 2000 24 hours

Astoria
157 Charing Cross Road
London WC2 8EN
Tel 020 7434 9592

Barfly
49 Chalk Farm Road
London NW1 8AN
Ticket line 0870 907 0999

Betsey Trotwood
56 Farringdon Rd
London EC1R 3BL.
Tube: Farringdon
Tickets:Ticketweb 08700 600 100

Blowup Metro
19-23 Oxford Street
London W1R 2DN
Tickets: Stargreen,Seeticket,Ticketweb

Borderline
Orange Yard
off Manette Street
London W1D 4JB
Box Office 020 7534 6970 (10am-6pm, Mon-Sat)

(London) Coronet
28 New Kent Road
London SE1 6TJ
Tel: 020 7701 1500

Forum
9-11 Highgate Road
London NW5
Tel 020 7584 1001

Garage
And Upstairs at the Garage
20-22 Highbury Corner
London N5 1RD
Tel 020 7607 1818

Infinity
10 Old Burlington Street
Mayfair
London W1
Tel 020 7287 5255

Koko (formerly The Camden Palace)
1a Camden High Street
London NW1 7JE
Telephone 0870 432 5527

Marquee
1 Leicester Square
Tube: Leicester Square
Tickets ticketweb 08700 600 100

Mean Fiddler (formerly the LA2)
165 Charing Cross Road
London WC2 0EN
Tel 020 7434 9592

Shepherds Bush Empire
Shepherds Bush Green
London W12 8TT
Tel 020 8354 3300
Tickets: Ticketweb 0870 771 2000

Spitz
109 Commercial Street
Old Spitalfields Market
London E1 6BG
Box Office (020) 7392 9032 10am - 5.30pm Mon - Fri

Telegraph
228 Brixton Hill
London SW2 1HE
Tel 020 8678 0777

Water Rats
328 Grays Inn Road
Kings Cross
London WC1X 8BZ
Enquiries 0207 336 7326
Listings

Windmill
22 Blenheim Gardens
Brixton SW2 5BZ
Tel: 020 8671 0700


7 TICKETS (try and get in before the touts!)

Gigsandtours

Seeticket
020 7403 3331

Stargreen
020 7734 8932

Ticketweb
08700 600 100 (24hr)

Way Ahead


8 CLUBS

How Does it Feel - top indie club, sometimes in north, sometimes south, of father Thames

The Penelope Tree - Indie/Twee/60s pop on the second Friday of every month

Ride ‘em and Booze - South London boozers-based DJ nights of tasty rock n roll, ska etc with some Ludes spinning the discs

Uptight - Wide ranging g mix of inde/punk/psychedelia/soul/60s/blues etc


9 MUSICIAN RESOURCES

Muse's Muse - tips and advice for getting your band noticed

Indie Bible - tips and advice for getting your band noticed

Record Labels on the Web - huge resource of music labels

Musicians Guide

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