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Power Up Promotions

About Me

We are incredibly picky bastards. Incredibly. Don't call us, we'll call you... Power Up Promotions is what happens when a Norwich-based promoter, Power Chord, and a south coast-based promoter, Head Up, merge in some sort of beautifully catastrophic gay orgy...

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Music:

Member Since: 7/19/2005
Band Members: Power Up Promotions is run by:
Ian
John

Who are ably helped by:
Claire
Dan
Influences: Power Chord Promotions
Head Up Promotions
Sounds Like: Ska and punk mostly. We will put on anything we like, but these genres vaguely cover it. Some of the bands we've worked with - in our previous incarnations of Power Chord and Head Up, as well as Power Up - are:

Adequate Seven
Akil the MC (from Jurassic 5)
Allister
The Aquabats
Army of Freshmen
Big D and the Kids Table
Bomb the Music Industry
Catch 22
Five Knuckle
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Howards Alias
Jesse James
Kris Roe (from The Ataris)
Kunt and the Gang
MC Lars
MU330
The Peacocks
Phinius Gage
The Planet Smashers
Punchline
RedLightsFlash
RxBandits
Sonic Boom Six
Streetlight Manifesto
Strike Anywhere
Strung Out
Vanilla Sky
Wheatus
Zen Baseballbat

and many, many more...
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Gig History (Updated)

I'm hoping to have comprehensive info of EVERY Power Up, Power Chord and Head Up gig here eventually! In the meantime however, have a basic list of every Power Up gig so far...PUP31: 09/05/09: Kunt an...
Posted by on Tue, 20 May 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Thoughts whilst I kill time

Just a few thoughts, as I have a few minutes to kill...Tickets will be ready soon. I have ordered tickets for Streetlight Manifesto, Strung Out and Chris Murray (tickets for the Peacocks will be sorte...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:07:00 GMT

Further more...

So, with my initial shock of the Queen Charlotte's closure having subsided somewhat, here are some more rational thoughts.I'm not surprised it closed, I'm just surprised it closed now. The venue never...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:40:00 GMT

Want a gig? THE RULES!

First off, sorry if I sound like a cock, but chances are we will not put you on. Most of our shows come from agents who attach tour supports, which highly limits how many bands we can add on ourselves...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:34:00 GMT

WHO WE ARE/WHAT WE DO!

So yeah, basically. A brief rundown of who we are and what we do, so you can get to know us better.We are two people. Me (Ian) and John. I am from Cambridge, John is from the New Forest (ish). We both...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:03:00 GMT

END OF YEAR BLOG PART 2

Why hello all, If anyone reads this I will be uber surprised but Ian said he wanted me to do it, so here goes! I'm pretty sure I knew 2007 was going to be disappointing in terms of running gigs and I'...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:34:00 GMT

Free Download Compilation!

So yeah, this was meant to be out months and months ago but things happened and it never came out, until now. Anyway...I decided to contact some bands about putting together a free download-only compi...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:43:00 GMT

END OF YEAR BLOG PART 1!

Afternoon. I have today off work so thought I'd write a barely cohearant end of year blog. Hopefully John will do so too (if he even remembers the login details) so you can read about the year from bo...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:59:00 GMT

The Power Chord Label: an epilogue of sorts

Just a quick message to remind you that the final 2 releases on The Power Chord Label are both available on iTunes by clicking the relevant links below. At 79p a track you can't go wrong.Faintest Idea...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:37:00 GMT

September 2007: An Update

Good evening,I hope everyone is well. We certainly are. A lot to discuss, so on to it...First up you'll have noticed that we have gigs booked again. This is a good thing. Full details are on the main ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:55:00 GMT