EASTER EGG'CLECTIC PARTY this COMING Thursday - FREE DRINK
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DIRTY LITTLE ROCKSTARS 'RED 13' STRIDE INTO NEXT ROUND OF DARBEX
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V FESTIVAL TO BE INVADED BY ZOMBIES, ALIENS AND..... BILLY REBEL?

It is set to be the biggest party yet! The Go Mental Easter Party at the Zero Bar sees resident DJ DJ KING STEVE, DJ SAMWISE, DJ LIFEGUARD BUNNY and DJ THE KEV churn out the big tunes, requests and new stuff on two floors!!

Upstairs will be heavy shit and downstairs light stuff!

Free drink (while stocks last)

£3.00 for advanced tickets – £4.00 for those with flyers – £5.00 for everyone else.

What track would you really like to hear played by the DJs at the Zero Bar Easter Party? – Email us a request now!

RESULTS FOR SUNDAY 09 MARCH – Alternative

1ST – LIVE POLITICS

2ND – SCARLETT OCCURANCE

3RD – JOE HARRISON

RESULTS FOR MONDAY 10 MARCH – Metal to the Masses

1ST – DESIGNS OF CHAOS

2ND – SCHIZOPHRENIA

3RD – AS THE RIGHTEOUS FALL

RESULTS FOR TUESDAY 11 MARCH – Alternative

1ST – APOLLO WITHSTANDS

2ND – CABARET DOLL

3RD – JON COOPER

Sarah from the 103.7 TGR Sound TakeOver Show speaks to the winners of the heats at the Drayman and the Bull and Vic. Tune in to hear exclusive interviews and tracks from bands playing the Darbex Band Quest on 103.7FM and at www.tgrsound.co.uk.

Indie band THE TROUBLED take on rockers EPICO. THEIR STRANGE GATHERING are also on the bill. DJ LIFEGUARD BUNNY keeps things moving between bands.

Darbex Band Quest – Alternative at The Drayman in Bexleyheath every Monday. £2.00 for loyalty card holders – £3.00 for everyone else.

PLEASE NOTE: The Drayman is over 18s for Darbex Band Quest – Alternative.

What track would you really like to hear played by the DJs at the Drayman on Sunday? – Email us a request now!

With bands eyeing the chance to play the almighty Bloodstock Open Air Festival in August the Monday installments of the Darbex Band Quest should be very exciting indeed.

Monday night looks set to be one of the best nights so far this year. Why? Well we have the titanic sound of metalcore five-piece BLOODLOSS meeting the symphonic death metal of TotalRock favourites SILENT DESCENT. Then we hear CARPATHIA bring an eclectic blend of black, thrash and prog metal to the table. Oh what a night it will be! DJ GAMBLIN keeps things metal in between bands.

Darbex Band Quest – Metal to the Masses at The Drayman in Bexleyheath every Monday. £2.00 for loyalty card holders – £3.00 for everyone else.

PLEASE NOTE: The Drayman is over 18s for Darbex Band Quest – Metal to the Masses.

What track would you really like to hear played by the DJs at the Drayman on Monday? – Email us a request now!

The Darbex Band Quest comes to Dartford. The lush melodies of BLACKBIRD hope to deliver a winning blow to blues rock band THE BROKEN BRICKS. FOXES AND CROSSBOWS are also on the bill.

Darbex Band Quest – Alternative at the Bull and Vic every Tuesday.

£2.00 for loyalty card holders – £3.00 for everyone else.

WIN £20 bar tab at Bull n Vic each Tuesday if you are Loyalty Card Holder.

What track would you really like to hear played by the DJs at the Bull n Vic? – Email us a request now!

It may be a far cry from the glory days of the Monsters of Rock festival but Download has continued to pack in 80,000 people every year since rock music returned to Donington Park back in 2003.

The line–up is far from complete but here are the bands confirmed so far:

• JUDAS PRIEST
• KISS
• MOTORHEAD
• CHILDREN OF BODOM
• IN FLAMES
• CAVALERA CONSPIRACY
• JOB FOR A COWBOY
• WITHIN TEMPTATION
• ALTER BRIDGE
• BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
• COHEED & CAMBRIA
• HIM
• DISTURBED
• BLEEDING THROUGH
• THROWDOWN
• JIMMY EAT WORLD
• RISE AGAINST
• THE OFFSPRING
• 36 CRAZYFISTS
• LOSTPROPHETS
• KID ROCK
• CHRIS CORNELL
• INCUBUS
• JONATHAN DAVIS
• A DAY TO REMEMBER
• THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
• ALESANA
• THE SUBWAYS

For more information on the festival visit the Download Festival website.

Bloodstock Open Air returns in 2008 and is set to be the biggest yet. Three days full of pure metal and a little bit more at Catton Hall!

The line–up is far from complete but here are the bands confirmed so far:

• NIGHTWISH
• OPETH
• EVILE
• DIMMU BORGIR
• ICED EARTH
• HELLOWEEN
• OVERKILL
• SOILWORK
• AT THE GATES
• PRIMAL FEAR
• TYR
• AS I LAY DYING
• ELUVEITIE
• COMMUNIC
• MOONSORROW
• SWALLOW THE SUN
• KATAKLYSM
• CLOUDSCAPE
• CROWNING GLORY
• MOB RULES
• SAINT DEAMON
• ALESTORM
• PRO-JEKT

For more information on the festival visit the Bloodstock website.

DESIGNS OF CHAOS
SCHIZOPHRENIA
AS THE RIGHTEOUS FALL

After a very average heat lastweek attention was on the three bands in heat 5.

Most bands would kill for half the energy that As The Righteous Fall display throughout their set. The crowd couldn't get near if they wanted to as the band filled the stage and half the floor in front of them. Their 'Job for a Killswitch' sound had moments of uplifting vigor with the drummer proving to be a powerful constant throughout. The actual songs though seemed to lack the structure which would push the band to the next level. (6/10)

Designs of Chaos have the look of a bunch of blokes who can look after themselves on stage and off it! The groove-ridden riffs complimented by the sometimes punk-like vocals helped drill together a tight set. There weren't too many individual standout tracks but it was mainly the attitude, maturity and overall sound that proved to be the winning elements. (7/10)

Thrash-meisters Schizophrenia wear their influences on their sleaves with the likes of Exodus, Testament and Slayer springing to mind. The biggest crowd of the night got up close and personal while Schizophrenia dispatched the speeing riffs. At times you could hear moments of which wouldn't be out of place on the latest Earache release but these moments are not frequent enough. The band have a sound which will develop over the next few months but like the bands before them lack a killer song or two to really whip the crowd into a frenzy. This competition may have come a year too soon for Schizophrenia but who would bet against them in twelve months time? (6.5/10)

Review by Alan

Vocalist Ben Goreskin of the UK extreme metal act act GOREROTTED has issued the following update:

"The boys have literally just entered Parlour Sounds Studios with producers Russ Russell and James Dunkley to begin production on 'Get Dead Or Die Trying', and I'll be joining them in a few weeks to lay down some vocals. We're incredibly excited to be working with these reputable gentlemen and also to lay down our most accomplished, diverse and strongest material to date."

GOREROTTED recently parted ways with drummer John Rushforth. His replacement is Nate Gould of UK weirdoes Screamin´ Daemon.

Calling all Bands in South East! Darbex is still open! Massive £7000+ of prizes and huge exposure. Nothing to lose! read more....

With bands that have not paid their deposits and other that cannot play the dates left we have just a few places left on the Darbex Band Quest 'Elevation of Creation' competition and related activity (Scratch the surface compilation CD and Altascope Magazine).

If you are interested now.. please read over the details at this link and ask any questions through darbex@rockmatrix.co.uk, we are looking to cover from late March onwards 5 slots in Dartford and 5 more slots in bexleyheath. All we need is the form here completed and a £25 deposit (not a fee) to assure you of a place. The METAL section is closed so we are looking for Indie/Alt/Rock bands as well as acoustic acts to play in darbex between March 18 and May 7th (Heats).

The Prize fund is worth over £7000 now and we are looking to award 33 prizes for the 99 bands we are looking to take part, min prize value is £99 as it stands and the max £1000 CASH!! Prize list here.

We will launch - this week the scratch the surface CD - Your chance to have a professionally released CD with over 1000 copies bieng distributed throughout the South East and Industry from May onwards in 2008.

Further more.....We are putting out 3 magazines to maximise your chance of exposure for you band and activity, this is being worked on now!

Dont miss this once in a bands lifetime chance to utilise this promotional vehicle and get yourselves into the local and national papers and many event listings all handled by rock matrix through out this project.

What ya got to lose?

Adam

The Rock Matrix

If you want to help make this a massive success come to any of the 3 events this Sunday / Monday / Tuesday.

4 alternative bands needed – we need more bands to 'confirm' their intent to play.

We are doing this:

- 1x A Battle of the bands with a twist featuring show case events!
- 2x 20 track cds called 'scratch the surface' one heavy one light!
- 3x Magazine called Altascope, featuring all acts taking part and more!

We have now got 99 bands interested with 82 confirmed, so we are now taking on a reserve list and back up list in case any bands that have committed drop out or decide not to take part for what ever reason.

Therefore we ask 3 things of thee!

1. If you want to have a chance in taking part complete this application form
2. If you want to help make this a massive success come to any of the 3 launch events this Sunday 3rd/Monday 4th/Tuesday 5th – events are here: www.eventmatrix.co.uk/events/
3. Or just wish us well, this really could elevate bands form our local scene to something much more promising. Help by adding graphics to your site etc or reposting bulletins. Thanks for anything in advance.

We are deep in talks with festivals and promoters about getting our bands playing for them. We have £7000 of prizes already committed and 1 in 3 bands will win something.

There will be:

- 100 bands playing by the end of this comp
- 2 x 20 track cds launched to support the quest
- 3 Magazines called Altascope covering ALL local music activity
- Around 400 playing musicians and 100 professional people involved in making this work
- 45 events with over 6000 people attending
- 20,000 flyers hand to hand
- 500 posters
- 33 prizes worth over £7500
- Media, Radio, Record label support and coverage
- And a bucket loads of bloody great nights in good venues!

All further enquiries and questions will be answered only through darbex@rockmatrix.co.uk

PS. We would love to know if you are in a new band or have left a band we thought you may be in.

For FULL DETAILS see the full details blog.

Billy Rebel are trying to get onto the V Festival this year and it's being done by ratings and reviews. So far they are in about 5th place so you should go to this site www.roadtov.com/profile/41447 now and help a local band play a major festival!

You have to login with a username and password.

Rate Billy Rebel with 5 stars and write a little review.

BILLY REBEL myspace

We are a rock/indie/punk band looking for an experienced drummer to join the group. We are a highly energetic band with a good backlog of catchy and original material and we need an enthusiastic drummer who shows passion for music. We have gigs and other opportunities lined up so we need someone ASAP. Have a listen to our tunes at www.myspace.com/mainshum. We only have a few tunes recorded, but our style varies a lot so they don't necessarily portray us accurately.

Please contact Jake:

07786852007

j_sadzik@yahoo.co.uk

MAINS HUM myspace

Some of you eagle eyed rockers might have noticed that last weeks results were not actually the results (just the line-ups). Apologies for that but here are the correct results for 2 weeks ago:

RESULTS FOR SUNDAY 02 MARCH – Alternative

1ST – BRAIN ACHE

2ND – PRINCE KATOCO

3RD – CELERY GENERALS

RESULTS FOR MONDAY 03 MARCH – Metal to the Masses

1ST – KLUNK

2ND – REPUGNANT INEBRIATION

3RD – THE RODEO PLAN

RESULTS FOR TUESDAY 04 MARCH – Alternative

1ST – RED 13

2ND – THE DEPTHS

3RD – ALIQUOT

Sarah from the 103.7 TGR Sound TakeOver Show speaks to the winners of the heats at the Drayman and the Bull and Vic. Tune in to hear exclusive interviews and tracks from bands playing the Darbex Band Quest on 103.7FM and at www.tgrsound.co.uk.