Come and Jam at Hevvy Sundayz this Sunday at the OHM bar!
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Hell'oween Party at the Drayman - Thursday 30th October!
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Fancy some Dark Desires at the Drayman?
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Alter-tainment nights on Tuesdays at the Bull n Vic

This week is JAM week. Come along and JAM the night away with loads of JAMMING you JAMMY people you!

Bored of chilling out on a Sunday? Well we bring you Hevvy Sundays! Deep, dark, heavy, powerful and dramatic music to help kick-start the week before it has even begun!

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Hevvy Sundays at OHM every Sunday.

FREE ENTRY for Gold loyalty card holders, £2.00 for everyone else.

Bands can hire our equipment and sound engineers on request and can play at this rock night.

Terms and conditions apply. The main difference is WE are not booking bands.

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

WIN VIP 8 person paint ball in crowd bingo!

All you need to do is turn up and get a number. A winning line gets a free drink and ONE lucky winner gets the VIP Paint Ball for 8 people!

Live acts are to be confirmed. DJ LIFEGUARD BUNNY spins stuff on the decks.

Bull n Vic Alter-Tainment Nights at the Bull and Vic every Tuesday.

FREE ENTRY for Gold loyalty card holders, £2.00 for everyone else.

Bands can hire our equipment and sound engineers on request and can play at this rock night.

Terms and conditions apply. The main difference is WE are not booking bands.

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

The Noisegate at the The Drayman in Bexleyheath every Thursday.

ROOM 1 – ALTA-SCOPE will concentrate on the lighter and eclectic side of the alternative music spectrum.

ROOM 2 – RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL will side with the heavier, sleazier, gothy and more extreme side!!

2 Pool Tables

Projection Screens, Lighting, Effects!

7pm-Midnight - The whole night (Lower Floor) and upstairs (8pm-11.30pm) when open

BBQ and Patio (on the warm nights) or stating subject to weather

Drinks Promo's inc, Buy on get ONE FREE on bottles of wine, Vodka and Red Bull Mix £3, Fosters, Becks, Stella, Strongbow and selected house Spirits with Mixer £2.50, and '2 for 1 cocktails £5/£6 + More!

Staffed Door!

Special Promotional Feature Nights, with free stuff and Brand New Music!

Over 18's ID Essential

No entry after 11pm

FREE entry for Gold loyalty card holders - £2.00 for everyone else.

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

Bored of chilling out on a Sunday? Well we bring you Hevvy Sundays! Deep, dark, heavy, powerful and dramatic music to help kick-start the week before it has even begun!

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Hevvy Sundays at OHM every Sunday.

FREE ENTRY for Gold loyalty card holders, £2.00 for everyone else.

Bands can hire our equipment and sound engineers on request and can play at this rock night.

Terms and conditions apply. The main difference is WE are not booking bands.

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

Starting a little earlier for a halloween special, going from 6pm until midnight we have a whole night of ghastly goings on.

Along with a free entry ticket for the first 100 people in through the door to the next Rock Matrix event, we also have face painting available on the night, a themed gift for all on the door, party games during the evening, competitions and prizes with themed rooms of music to suit the occassion, so join in with the halloween spirit and come in fancy dress. Themes could include ghouls, ghosts, vampires, witches, wizards, werewolves, zombies, demons, or just plain horror.

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UPSTAIRS will host a night of DARK DESIRES, playing the darkest and most gothic of music. DJs 69, Cybertrash and Kevorkian will ensure this is the perfect way to go to HELL'oween!

Entry on the night is £5 on the door, £4 with a flyer, and £3 for Rock Matrix Gold Card Holders.

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Advance tickets are available for a cheaper price (£4 or £2 for Rock Matrix Gold Card Holders) at any of The Noisegate events on a Thursday at The Drayman prior to this event, which also gets you a free drink worth £2.50 on the night of purchase as well as a free shot on the 30th!

What track would you really like to hear played by the DJs at the Hell'oween Party? – Email us a request now!

Upstairs at the Drayman as part of the HELL'oween Party is Dark Desires.

A night of goth, industrial, EBM, gothic metal, 80s and dark alternative.

DJs 69, Cybertrash and Kevorkian playing the likes of Sisters of Mercy, VNV Nation, Paradise Lost, The Mission, Combichrist, The Birthday Massacre, Type O Negative, BlutEngel, Marilyn Manson, NFD, Colony 5, Ministry, The Ghost of Lemora, 69 Eyes, Nine Inch Nails, Fields of Nephilim, Lacuna Coil, Joy Division, The Cult, KMFDM, Dope Stars Inc, Siouxse, Lacimus Profundere, The Cure, Deathstars, Evanescence, Covenant, Specimen, Poisonblack, Star Industry, Killing Joke and much much more!

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Entry to the HELL'oween Party on the night is £5 on the door, £4 with a flyer, and £3 for Rock Matrix Gold Card Holders.

OR

Advance tickets are available for the HELL'oween Party a cheaper price (£4 or £2 for Rock Matrix Gold Card Holders) at any of The Noisegate events on a Thursday at The Drayman prior to this event, which also gets you a free drink worth £2.50 on the night of purchase as well as a free shot on the 30th!

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

Update - 26/09/08:

Bands can hire our equipment and sound engineers on request and can play at any of our rock nights on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Terms and conditions apply. The main difference is WE are not booking bands.

Original announcement:

It's true, Today after much love, and having tried to get out at an earlier stage than this I have decided to put an end to the misery of finding bands to play local shows and interest the scene in live music. It seems as if we have very little respect for what we have tried to do over the years so its time to leave it to those who feel they can do a better job, i am sure there are willing takers!! Good luck to em, if we couldn't achieve anything from £500,000 of business over 7 years, then not sure who can! All of which is now lost to the wind and i personally need to earn money for which i have not done more than £100 a week for 6 years so figure i deserve to.

We would love it if a couple of you bands would be up for playing our farewell shows this/next week, we want Hevvy bands on Sunday at OHM Bar, Alt Bands on Tuesday at Bull n Vic and Alt Bands Next Friday at Goldsmiths Tavern. The Red Lion is still to be The BIGGEST show we have ever done 28th September, with 40 acts playing and maybe our last one for a very very long time under the RM umbrella at £4 adv tickets (10p per act).

After that we'll be just doing the Drayman on Thursdays and we will also be working with our other venues in providing staff and equipment when deemed required. OHM is a great bar and we will be running nights there as dj's nights on Sundays, Tuesdays will be entertainment nights without bands at Bull n Vic and same on Fridays at the Goldsmiths Tavern.

However, IF bands wish to put a line up into one of these nights RM has agreed to oversee this and would be hirable to do so. All the venues have been very understanding and supportive over the last few weeks and i would like to thank them all for that.

With pubs nationally losing a reported £11,000,000 a week, and Bands being able to pick and choose gigs at any number of pubs that are happy with sub 100 attending gigs, it is felt that the support required to build up a local scene just isn't enough, and with some bands and band members self elevating themselves above local level (for good and bad reasons) the connectivity of the scene has become fragmented.

Regretfully i have wasted 7 years of my life genuinely trying to make things happen for bands yet seemingly only ever been criticized for my efforts, it really isn't worth the time of day explaining what running a TRUE and honest businesses really takes, so i wont. It was worth the try though, and i honestly did try.

We also wanted to be able to replace over £5000 worth of ageing equipment which has seen its best days, and with gigs being such low revenue this would not be possible.

The oddest thing is this has been our most successful year, seeing RM clear over the last 3 years its massive £67,000 debts it racked up in the first 3 years now gone. Also deregistration from VAT has meant not being able to 'take' much more money per event without re-registration which could have meant a further £10,000 VAT bill. So even in success we are stifled lol!

So the long and short and as they say on Dragons Den - I'm Out!

Thanks for those of you who have performed and attended our events, i am just sorry we didn't do a good enough job to keep you all happy.

Adam

PS- Thursdays are the same as always, that's where it started and this is how it will end!

and, many thanks to Alan Hicks who has been religious in helping rock matrix, sorry it hasn't come to much.

CONQUEST need:

- Bass player
- Drummer

Contact this band here: leslie.clayden@ntlworld.com or admin@roystone.com or ring Les Clayden on 07832 235715.

KINGDOM OF THE BLIND need:

- Bass player

Contact this band here: dave.cottham@sky.com or ring 07890132197.

P.O.S. 51 need:

- Drummer

Contact this band here: annika@rockmatrix.co.uk

P.O.S. 51 singer Annika wants to join an additional band so she can sing even more:

Contact her here: annika@rockmatrix.co.uk

UNTIL I BLEED need:

- Guitarist (with some lead ability)
- Bassist
- Drummer
- Female vocalist

Contact this band here: tombwibble@yahoo.co.uk

Read all the latest reviews in the Rock Matrix reviews section.

The newest reviews this week are for the excellent new album from Austrian goth band WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW, IN CASE OF FIRE and THE PIGEON DETECTIVES.

Swedish metal powerhouse AMON AMARTH's brand new album, Twilight of the Thunder God, debuts at #48 on the Billboard Top 200 chart today, shifting over 11,000 units in its first week of release. Released in North America on September 30 via Metal Blade Records, Twilight of the Thunder God is AMON AMARTH's seventh full-length album, and is the highest American charting record in the band's sales history. Twilight of the Thunder God’s first week sales are roughly three times the opening tally of its predecessor, "With Oden on Our Side", which premiered with 3,400 units sold back in October, 2006. Twilight of the Thunder God also debuted at #5 on the Billboard Independent Albums Chart, #6 on the Billboard Hard Albums Chart, #12 on the Billboard Tastemakers Chart and at # 16 on the Billboard Rock Albums Chart. Additionally, AMON AMARTH vaults to the #1 position at college radio this week. Propelled by the single and video for the album's title track, Twilight of the Thunder God sits atop the CMJ Loud Rock chart, besting new albums by Metallica, All That Remains, Trivium and Slipknot amongst others.

Following the completion of their North American headlining tour, AMON AMARTH will embark on a month-long European tour as hand-picked support for thrash metal titans Slayer and the band's "Unholy Alliance Chapter III" tour. Also appearing on the tour will be Mastodon and Trivium.

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