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Ivo's gigs

nobody in Reading likes punk or ska

About Me

BANDS:
Peng
Gimble
Signs of Insanity
the Grizzley Ends
Last Remaining Monkey
Station Jim
Last of the Beanz
the Stats
Capguns 'n' Coke
Your Mum
the Nova
Smokey Bastard
Fake the Attack
It's a Riot
The Jurassic Ska Bandits
Dissolvedin
Parole
the Lock Up
Tastes Like Chicken
Muck Fe
Pirates of Metal
Abort the Mission
the Kamikaze Test Pilots
Robolint
Side Project
Pungent Aroma
Shoot|the|Moon
Offbeat Contingency
Dregs of Society
Ceefax VS Teletext
Outta Fashion
On Trial
Caution
Near the Knuckle
Frank Butcher and the Slags
Courtesy of My Thinking
SixEight
Beat the Red Light
Sister Gracie
Jessica Rabbit
Headlove
Action Hank
Inertia
Lights Out
Bigtopp
the Apostates
Abel Ready
Kids Can't Fly
Smoke Like a Fish
the Brass Monkeys
Anti-Vigilante
Second In Line
Her:Enemy
Big Hand
Fandangle
Overthrow
Essay For the Ordinary
First Among Equals
VENUES:
the Turks
the Cellar Bar
the Face Bar
the Rising Sun (the pub)
Bar Iguana
IF I DIDN'T EXIST:
Walking The Wall (Guildford)
Play Faster Promo! (Reading)
Punker Bunker (Brighton)
Count Me In! (R.I.P)
Awesome People:
Charlotte
Dave
Station Jim + Peng
Gimble
It's a Riot
the Grizzley Ends
the Stats
Jonny
Kathryn
Kim + Adam
Jake Evans
Rosie

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/28/2006
Influences: Neil and the Gimbles

Sounds Like:

Type of Label: None

My Blog

HeadLove

As the Grizzley Ends were scheduled to play a gig at 8pm Abel Ready (having 2 of the same members) had to play first. It was their first full set and it was ace. Although their music is heavier than I...
Posted by Ivo's gigs on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:55:00 PST

My first gig at Bar Iguana

This was my second free gig in 2 days, and the reason I was putting it on was becuase F-BATS love the Apostates who return the love while loving Station Jim who are such nice guys they love everyone, ...
Posted by Ivo's gigs on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:03:00 PST

Fandangle for free!

Despite it being a joint tour between Fandangle + Short Warning there was a break down in comunication and Short Warning never turned up, so the night was kicked off by the LockUp. Becuase Mel was gal...
Posted by Ivo's gigs on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:44:00 PST

Catch-It Kebabs - tour in a day

Catch-It Kebabs (the 9 piece swing-core band from Barnsley) planned to tour across the UK in 24 hours (starting in Scotland and ending in Bristol with 7 shows in between) on the condition that the 8 p...
Posted by Ivo's gigs on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:48:00 PST

Happy Birthday Dave!

Basically in 2007 I went to a Count Me In! gig to celebrate "Dave's 21st Birthday". I didn't know this Dave but he had a great taste in music (Once Over, The LockUp, Gimble, Mumrah, Catch-It Kebabs ET...
Posted by Ivo's gigs on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:20:00 PST

Kids Couldn’t Fly

Despite having a great line up, less than 20 people payed to come through the door, meaning that throughout the night there was about as much dancing as me, dancing on the door. Having siad that the p...
Posted by Ivo's gigs on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:40:00 PST

17 years of age

As you can see I set up a free all-dayer in celebration of my 17th Birthday. Out of the 11 bands 10 turned up (the Guns of Pig Alley being busy or something) which was pretty impressive.The Stats open...
Posted by Ivo's gigs on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:39:00 PST

Jessica Rabbit and all that jazz!

Contary to the flier, Parole couldn't play as they were studying hard for their mock GCSEs. And by the time the doors opened (over half an hour late) only 3 bands had turned up.Luckily Headlove had br...
Posted by Ivo's gigs on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:20:00 PST

Kinda metal...

Well this started out as a metal gig but then half the bands turned into punky indy - which I still loved :)The opening act was originally scheduled to be Rebirth but they broke up, their guitarist ha...
Posted by Ivo's gigs on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:49:00 PST

Skalloween !!!

SixEight are a 3-piece acoustic folk band fomr Bulmershe school, which was lucky as the drum kit hadn't arrived when they soundchecked... They played a collection of their own songs and classic folk c...
Posted by Ivo's gigs on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:14:00 PST