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LEICESTER ROCK GIGS - dated Monday, 8/02/10

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PA HIRE

Phone: 0780 402 7010


BLUE FLAME

Tattoo Studio

66a Baxter Gate, Loughborough, LE11 1TH

Tel: 07596 912 637


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Friday 5th February

Indigo Slam

The Fazed

Raptor Captor

White Ashes

Sumo, Braunstone Gate, Leicester

 

Saturday 6th February

The Boobytraps

New EP Launch night.

The Vinyl Throwbacks (comeback gig)

The Eaves

Roxum

 

 

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Saturday 6th February

The Splitters

megaDUB

Out of Karma

MadagaSKA

 

The Charlotte, Oxford Road, Leicester

Saturday 6th February

Steve Faulkner

steve faulkner

Charity gig for Cancer Care For Children

The Musician, Clyde Street, Leicester

8.30 p.m.

 

Sunday 7th February

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

Ellen Miller Band (Birmingham)

Adam Astbury

Dinky

The Refinements

Samtana (Santana Tribute Band)

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

Tuesday 9th February

Silent Resistance

See our review of this band

The Crows Nest, Glenfield Road, Leicester

9 p.m.

Free entry

Thursday 11th February

Detroit, Michigan Ska Pop Punkers

We Are The Union

are hitting The Sumo in Leicester on Thursday 11th Feb!

Please give them a listen here

http://www.myspace.com/wearetheunion

Support from Last Edition, Full Circle, and Anti Vigilante.

Sumo, Braunstone Gate, Leicester

Tickets are £7 in advance from Rockaboom, or £8 on the door...BUT, let us know if your coming, and we'll put you on our £5 guestlist!

Saturday 13th February

Neon Sarcastic

neon sarcastic

Ictus

Formal Warning

Kicking Habits

Sumo, Braunstone Gate, Leicester

 

Saturday 13th February

White Ashes

Whitefix

NakedLunch

Seventh Empire

Primal Device - see Primal Device at the Glastonbudget Festival

 

The Queen of Bradgate,

93-97 High Street
Leicester
LE1 4JB

Free entry

18+ event

7.30 p.m.

Saturday 13th March

RockFood Presents: A Sort Of All-Dayer

firebug 13th march

w/ Blakfish, The JCQ, Buenos Aires, Speaking In Italics & Surrender The Coast

Blakfish
http://www.myspace.com/blakfish
Rockfood favourites and Birmingham's first four are back at the Firebug again. Louder than god and more fun than a bucket of badgers. Pay attention, or fuck off.

The James Cleaver Quintet
http://www.myspace.com/thejcq

Buenos Aires
http://www.myspace.com/abandcalledbuenosaires

Speaking In Italics
http://www.myspace.com/speakinginitalics

Surrender The Coast
Profile on Facebook

and More TBC.

 

The Firebug, Millstone Lane, Leicester

Time: 05:00 - 23:30

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM:

ROCKABOOM RECORDS: St Martins Square, Leicester
GIGANTIC: http://www.gigantic.com/gigantic/event_gce_16706a.html
WE GOT TICKETS: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/69272
SEE TICKETS: http://www.seetickets.com/s.asp?a=blakfish&p=7190

Sunday 14th February

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

The Weekend Schemers

weekend schemers

Jezebel

Ictus

The Aromattics

Muscle Mobile

and Dan White (new set of songs)

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

Friday 19th February

The Weekend Schemers

play the last 14+ gig ever at the Charlotte

with Formal Warning

The Ad Hoc Heroes

White Fix

The Kicks

The Charlotte, Oxford Road, Leicester

7 p.m. - 11 p.m.

No Alcohol !! :(

£5 in advance

£6 on the door

Tickets on line from 2funkytickets.co.uk or
Rockaboom Records and from the bands

 

Saturday 20th February

Blackfingers

 

Sumo, Brauntone Gate, Leicester

Sunday 21st February

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

Indigo Slam

Junk Yard Morning

Esdetna

Cold Place (Coldplay tribute Band)

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

Friday 26th February

Haiti Benefit gig

haiti benefit gig

Cliff ... as if

Micky Vegas is Elvis

Bill Brookman and Friends

 

Newfoundpool Working Mens Club, Beatrice Road, Leicester

8 p.m.

£5.00

 

Friday 26th February

Little Night Terrors

with support from Boy Kid Cloud, and M48.

 

Sumo, Brauntone Gate, Leicester

7 p.m.

16+ gig.
£4 advance tickets, available in Rockaboom, £5 on the door.

Saturday 27th February

Ocean Colour Scene

 

 

Loughborough University Students Union

Tickets

Sunday 28th February

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

James Warner Prophesies

Steel Band

Greenhead Man

Serena Alexander

The Muse Tribute Band

 

 

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

March

 

Thursday 4th March

Towers of London

towers of london

+ The Heroes

The Heroes

The Music Cafe, New Park Street, Braunstone Gate, Leicester, LE3 5NH

8 p.m.

Tickets

Presented by Shadow Promotions

Friday 5th March

Tubelord

Tall Ships

These Furrows

Junior Fencing Club

5th march at the firebug

The Firebug, Millstone Lane, Leicester

Presented by Rockfood

Sunday 7th March

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

Headtrap

The Platforms

The Boobytraps

Muse-ic (Muse Tribute Band)

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

Saturday 13th March

Last ever gig at the Charlotte

The legendary venue bows out with a local bands all-nighter

5.00 BoobyTraps
5.30 Hordes
6.00 The Kicks
6.30 Eaves
7.00 Formal Warning

7.30 The Dobsons
8.00 Weekend Schemers
8.30 Carnival Clowns
9.00 Charlie & the Martyrs
9.30 Autohype
10.00 The Heroes

10.30 Free Control
11.00 The Fazed
11.30 Stephen and the Heathens
12.00 Dead Slow
12.30 SuperEvolver
1.00 Electrical Language
1.30 Drive by Disco
2.00 Echolocation
2.30 Furrowed Fox
3.00 Rassoodocks

3.30 -6am Paul (Melting Pot)


ROOM 2

8.30 MangoMafia
9.00 Tommys Heroes
9.30 Last Edition
10.00 M48
10.30 MadagaSKA
1115 MEGA DUB

1145-6am :

I-Mitri (CounterAction)
I.B.I Sound

ROOM 3


8.30 Rhett Barrow
9.00 Meri Everitt
9.30 Steven Faulkner
10.00 Markus Reeves
10.30 Natalie Squance
11.00 Midbeats

11pm-6am

FELiS (Kontakt)
REBEL (HRM)
BRAIDEE (Filtered)
B.T.S.S. DJs
TEHRAN (Wellgosh)
MELLY (Toon)
MSB (Live)
Don Utland (Paloroid)
B.T.T. (Sophbeck / Widow)
RICH K (Scrabble)
TEC-HO + DEE P (Doji / BWPT)
KATRICK (Tech) wow!

Unmissable!

more rooms and more acts to be announced.

Its likely to be a sell out - advanced ticket purchase advised.

The Charlotte, Oxford Road, Leicester

18+ only - alcohol at the bar!

£7.50 Advance see link below and in Rockboom from Weds 20th Jan.
More on the door (if any tickets left)
8pm-5am

Buy Tickets now

18+ Event

Facebook info

 

Saturday 13th March

Blakfish

with The James Cleaver Quintet

The Firebug, Millstone Lane, Leicester

8 p.m.

 

Sunday 14th March

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

Ictus

ictus band

Room 300

Jasper Cain

InVocal

My Kid Brother

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

Saturday 20th March

Twisted Wheel

twisted wheel

+ The Chairmen

the chairmen

Kids in Cars

kids in cars

"Its gonner be mental"

The Music Cafe, New Park Street, Braunstone Gate, Leicester, LE3 5NH

8 p.m.

Tickets

Presented by Shadow Promotions

Sunday 21st March

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

The Hendrix Alive Project (Holland)

Silent Resistence

VertigoU2 (U2 tribute band)

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

Friday 26th March

The Screening and Minaars

 

The Y Theatre, East Street, Leicester

14+

Doors 8 p.m.



Tickets £5 adv, available from Y Theatre box office (open 9am-9pm, in person or 0116 255 7066)

Facebook event

Sunday 28th March

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

Neon Sarcastic

neon sarcastic

Amifubar

Danny Doney

Groove Religion

James Warner Prophesies

Depechmode tribute band

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

April

 

Friday 2nd April

Jersey Budd

 

Leicester University

£10 in advance

 

Sunday 4th April

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

Minah Bird

BYRB

Toxic Federation

The Rogue State Circus

Grand Mal Music

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

Saturday 10th April

Sons of Beaches

Support from fellow Kidderminster band Subluminal.

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Saturday 17th April

Redtrack (from Essex)

a fundraiser in aid of STRUMMERVILLE (The Joe Strummer Foundation For New Music)

The Music Cafe, New Park Street, Braunstone Gate, Leicester, LE3 5NH

8 p.m.

Tickets

Presented by Shadow Promotions

Sunday 11th April

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

TNT (AC/DC Tribute band)

The Vinyl Throwbacks

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

Sunday 18th April

The road to Glastonbudget for ...

Faces of Dorian

shed venue leicester

The Shed, Yeoman Street, LE 1 1UT

doors from 7.30 p.m.

Shed MySpace

Tel: 0116 262 2255

Find out how to get on the Glastonbudget Festival

May

 

3rd May

Biffy Clyro

 

De Montfort Hall, Leicester

Event info

Saturday 15th May

OBS GRAND FINAL

The final night of the Original Bands Showcase

The Shed

See our page about the OBS

June

 

11th - 13th June

Download Festival

AC/DC

Them Crooked Vultures

Deftones

Bullet for my Valentine

Megadeth

Motorhead

 

 

DownLoad Festival

18th, 19th 20th June

The Big Session Festival

De Montfort Hall Leicester

Big Session Festival

July  
August  

Saturday 7th August

Glastonbaby 2010

The Screening

Neon Sarcastic

Go Primitive

Charity fund raising event in aid of Harley Staples and Help for Heroes.

Northfield Park, Blaby

12 to 5 p.m.

Facebook page

13-14-15 August

Summer Sundae Festival

Warm up from the winter chill by getting your hands on the hottest festival tickets around. Early Bird tickets are now on sale for Summer Sundae Weekender 2010 - saving you £10 on the full price. 

The discount is available until the end of March and there's only a limited number available, so be quick if you want to grab a bargain. Weekend adult tickets cost £95 - saving £10 off the full price - and weekend family tickets are £250 - saving £20. Buy them online here and from De Montfort Hall's Box Office on 0116 233 3111.

 

De Montfrot Hall, Leicester

Summer Sundae Web Site

October  

Saturday 16th October

MAYBESHEWILL

may be she will at the y theatre

The Y Theatre, East Street, Leicester.