Cluster F**K of music all-dayer has arrived!
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Hevvy Sundays return next Sunday at the OHM bar!
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Bands can hire our equipment and sound engineers on request and can play at any of our rock nights!
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Win VIP 8 person paint ball on Tuesday at the Bull n Vic

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Date of event:
Sunday 28 September 2008

Time of event:
Starts at 13:00

Place of event:
Red Lion, Gravesend, Kent

Cost of tickets:
£5.00 (£3.00 RM Members) (£4.00 With Flyer)

WIN VIP 8 person paint ball in crwod 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!

BLACK DOVE STATE and JON COOPER entertain you this week. DJ LIFEGUARD BUNNY spins stuff between bands.

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!

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.

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

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Excellent reviews all over the place!

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"‘Twilight Of The Thunder God’ leaves the competitors behind! A must-have album!"
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"The Death Metal album of the year? Quite possible!"
LEGACY Magazine Germany / 14 out of 15 points / album of the month!

ROCK HARD Magazine Germany album of the month!

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KERRANG! magazine England / 4 out of 5 K's / album of the week!

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EMP Magazine Germany

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ROCK HARD Italy / 9 out of 10 points / album of the month!

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SLAM Magazine Austria / 9 out of 10 points

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"Amon Amarth keeps excelling thanks to the perfect balance of strengths...
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METALLIAN magazine France

"The usual mix of mythology, a thundering sound, a singer who sounds like he’s planning to slaughter the whole World and a high percentage of Viking and beer ensures another success"
MINDVIEW magazine Belgium / 6 out of 7 points

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