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EDGAR - Edinburgh University Rock Society

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About Me

Set up to fill a gap after the demise of Edinburgh Uni's alternative student union, EdG&R has now been going for 10 years!
If you're interested in alternative music in any of its shapes or forms, in going to alternative pubs, gigs and clubs (and getting discounts at the best ones), or even running clubs and gigs of your own - then this is the right place!

We set out to run clubs and gigs and anything our members want really! At the moment we run the following clubs:

    Adrenaline - a band centred night, plus DJs playing a range of metal, rock and punk. Adrenaline mainly puts on local bands, to help promote the Edinburgh scene.
    Cyberia - our successful EBM night, featuring a range of electronic music accompanied by futuristic visuals, along with glowsticks, dressing up, and lots of dancing.
    Bloodlust - if you like extreme metal, this is the place for you. The only extreme night in the capital and possibly in the region!
    Punk Off - our punk charity night (formerly known as Punk in Public). With fantastic local bands, punk DJs playing everything from ska to old school to emo to psychobilly, free sweeties and all profits going to charity, what more could you want!
    We're also proud to be associated with the fantastic Fimbulvetr - one of the only clubs catering for neo-folk and darkwave in the entire country.
    EdG&R are also affiliated with FNGSE - A fortnightly club playing the full gothic spectrum, starting 2nd November.

Ultimately though, we're a member driven society, so we try to get people involved as much as possible: if we don't have a club you like, then we'll do our best to help you set up a night of your own.

For more up to date information and to request songs for our nights, check out our forum . Also, for more information about the society, and to see a calendar of all our events, along with profiles of committee members and other cool stuff, check out our new website!

The best thing about EdG&R is that you're guaranteed to meet loads of people you've got stuff in common with, so it's easy to find people to go to all the aforementioned pub, clubs and gigs with - whether they're ones we run ourselves or not!

My Interests

metal, rock, goth, punk, ebm, neo-folk, darkwave... most sorts of alternative music!
putting on gigs, running clubs, going to the aforementioned clubs and gigs, going to other clubs and gigs, making friends, meeting people, supporting the local music scene, snakebite & black, glow sticks, nursing hangovers, getting more hangovers, drinking competitions and tea-drinking competitions.

I'd like to meet:

Anybody who wants to get involved in the social/organising/technical side of things in the society. Everyone is welcome. We're particularly looking for bands who want to promote themselves by getting onto our freshers cd. Must be from the local Edinburgh area.

Any national bands are welcome to send us cds/stickers/badges too, we get about 200 freshers every year and it's an important promotional activity that we're willing to do for you.

BANDS: If you're in a band and are looking for gigs in Edinburgh, we'd love to hear from you. However, if you want a fast response, please contact the relevant club or committee member directly rather than messaging us; here are links to their pages:

    Bloodlust - Metal (black, death, thrash, etc.) Punk Off - punk, ska, etc. Chrissie (Adrenaline organiser) - rock, metal, indie, and so on.
Cheers.

Music:

hangspid1 [email protected] www.myspace.com/forbidden_nightmareToo long a list to put here really... we run nights catering for everything from neo-folk, to ebm, to punk, to extreme metal...but here are a few things we like!
Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Sepultura, Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tool, A Perfect Circle, the Pixies, Placebo, HIM, Ramones, Greenday, Jimmy Eat World, Emperor, Immortal, Darkthrone, Slayer, Cryptopsy, Deicide, Killswitch Engage, Goldfrapp, Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire, Tomahawk, Bad Religion, the Cure, the Sisters of Mercy, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, New Model Army, Hounds of God, Fields of the Nephilim, Slade, T-Rex, David Bowie, Roxy Music, La Quiete, Transistor Transistor, Funeral Diner, the Now Denial, Ix, Friday Night Gunfight, Absurd Minds, Aiboforcen, And One, Angels and Agony, Angelzoom, Aphex Twin, Apoptygma Berzerk, Assemblage 23, Ayria, The Azoic, Beborn Beton, Bel Canto, The Birthday Massacre, Blutengel, Camouflage, Colony 5, Combichrist, Covenant, The Cruxshadows, Cubanate, De/Vision, Delerium, Deviant UK, Die Krupps, Dream Disciples, The Dreamside, Echo Image, Fairlight Children, Fixmer McCarthy, FLA, Flesh Field, Girls Under Glass, Goteki, Grendel, Icon of Coil, In Strict Confidence, Iris, KMFDM, L'ame Immortelle, Melotron, Mesh, Mind.In.A.Box, Ministry, Namnambulu, Nebula-H, Neikka-RPM, Neuroticfish, New Model Army, Nine Inch Nails, Nitzer Ebb, Pitchshifter, Plastic, Pop Will Eat Itself, Pride & Fall, Prodigy, Pzychobitch, Qntal, Razed in Black, Regenerator, The Retrosic, Rotersand, Seabound, Skinny Puppy, Swarf, Ultraviolence, Utah Saints, VNV Nation, Wolfsheim, Wumpscut, Zeitgeist Zero, Zeraphine, Zeromancer, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, L7, Munhoney, Sonic Youth, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Hole, Distillers, anything from the Labyrinth soundtrack, Tatu, Stray Cats, Tiger Army, The Toasters, The Subhumans, Madness, The Ordinary Boys, The Paragons, Mclusky, Mephiskapheles, Sublime, Subtonix, The Suicide Machines, The Meteors, Leftover Crack, Limp, Link 80, Long Tall Texans, Mad Caddies, Mad Sin, MXPX, The Maytals, Blood or Whiskey, Bouncing Souls, Dropkick Murphys, Catch 22, Misfits, Nekromantix, Nerf Herder, Neurotic Outsiders, New Bomb Turks, Operation ivy, no use for a name, nofx, pennywise, the pie tasters, the pioneers, the planet smashers, professionals, propaghandi, the pubcrawlers, the queers, social distortion, the real mckenzies, save ferris, the selecter, sex pistols, the sharks, sin alley, the skatalites, snuff, spunge, china drum, chixdiggit, choking victim, the clash, cock sparrer, goldfinger, less than jake, guanta batz, guttermouth, horrorpops, the killer barbies, king prawn, lagwagon, lars and the bastards, frenzal rhomb, frenzy, big d and the kids table, dead kennedys, the cramps, dickies, the demented, discipline, stiff little fingers, capdown, the dwarves, the ethiopians, the exploited, farse, flogging molly, 4ft fingers, freaks union, the filaments, the buzzcocks, the damned, big dog small fence, rancid, the transplants, roger miret, the epoxies, jilted john, toy dolls, us bombs, uk subs, buccaneer, swinging utters, 59 times the pain, the business, the specials, vanilla muffins, voodoo glow skulls, zombina and the skeletones, adequate 7, agnostic front, angelic upstarts, red alert, anti-nowhere league, goldblade, bad religion, black flag, bikini kill, JMC, The Fatalists, Little Green Machine, Zombina & the Skeletones, Screaming Banshee Aircrew

My Blog

ZOMBINA AND THE SKELETONES

The Edinburgh University rock society, (EDGAR for short), will be celebrating Hallowe'en in spectacular style this year, with Horror-punk band Zombina & the Skeletones + support performing live on the...
Posted by EDGAR - Edinburgh University Rock Society on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:27:00 PST

Halloween & November events

We'll be celebrating Hallowe'en in spectacular style this year, with Horror-punk band Zombina & the Skeletones + support performing live on the 27th November. Tickets are a mere £5 from Ripping Recor...
Posted by EDGAR - Edinburgh University Rock Society on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:23:00 PST

CALLING ALL PUNK AND SKA BANDS IN EDINBURGH...

Are you interested in putting a CD on the Edinburgh University rock society's freshers cd? It goes out to 200 students in September. Let me know ASAP as we're doing it next week and we need the song,...
Posted by EDGAR - Edinburgh University Rock Society on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:40:00 PST

Adrenaline Live Rock Extravaganza - Tue 13th March

Edg&r Society is proud to present ADRENALINE with three awesome live bands!First up we have local boys Barricks. The half-Irish half-Scottish four piece have been solidly gigging around the 'burgh, pl...
Posted by EDGAR - Edinburgh University Rock Society on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:53:00 PST

Bloodlust V - 16th Feb, 7pm

The first Bloodlust of 2007 is upon us. Along side DJs playing all your favourite black and death metal tracks we are lucky enough to have two excellent live bands - Grenville Dodge and Death In Blood...
Posted by EDGAR - Edinburgh University Rock Society on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:14:00 PST

Punk in Public - Feb 8th, 7 pm

Edg&r is proud to present an evening of punk flavoured fun. Featuring 2 fantastic live punk bands, Psyche Out and Effigy along with DJ's playing all manner of toe-tappingly good punk tunes.where: Subw...
Posted by EDGAR - Edinburgh University Rock Society on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:07:00 PST

ska gig on saturday 14th october!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/likeneontubing/70802- 7solflyer.gifHigh-energy ska gig taking place at Subway Cowgate on Saturday 14th October. '7 Seconds of Love' are headlining, with 'Taking C...
Posted by EDGAR - Edinburgh University Rock Society on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:01:00 PST

Freshers' Week

Freshers' Week Sunday 10th - Sunday 17th September Whether you're a fresher, a current student, or a non-student, EdG&R will be running a number of events during Fresher's Week, providing a ...
Posted by EDGAR - Edinburgh University Rock Society on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:31:00 PST