REAL ROCK is back in Bexleyheath!
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How can you hate a Monday with this line-up?
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Brutai show New Cross who is boss!
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DJ 69 back at Club AntiChrist -Steampunk special!

The best local metal night returns to the scene once more. This time at Dartfords newly refurbished Bull n Vic pub, bringing the best of the scenes local metal bands with it!

Local melodic metallers INNER FIRE are the perfect band to get the week started with a special performance. 2ND2NONE and Metal Band Quest 2009 finalists SILAS also play, with LEWIS SMITH opening the night.

The Monday Hate Club at the Bull and Vic every Monday.

£2.00 for Loyalty Card Holders, £2.50 for everyone else.

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

We return to the Zero Bar in Bexleyheath, but this time we have 2 floors of great music from 8pm til late!

The main downstairs floor will have DJ's playing the best alternatove, rock and metal tracks, bringing back the best original rock night, plus it's free entry.

Upstairs, we have 3 great bands performing live each Thursday night for a small entry fee. The excellent COLT.44 start things off with FUSED before STRANGERS LANE give everyone the blues in the headlining slot.

Thunderstruck and The Live Feed at the Zero Bar every Thursday.

Free entry to ground floor only. £3.00 for entry to upstairs.

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

Our very own DJ 69 is back spinning at Club AntiChrist on Friday 4th December!

On Friday December 4th, AC is having a STEAMPUNK special!

Doors open at 10pm.

Happy hour at the bar 10-11pm. Most drinks £2 or less!

This is a public service announcement.....
December 4th is not just a Steampunk event. It is an AntiChrist with a steampunk theme.

We'll have fetish, we'll have goth, we'll have industrial too. We'll also have steampunk inspired bands and acts, walkabouts and decor. To find out more about steampunk, check out these links....

The Hellfire Room:
All Night Goth, Trad, and Alternative dancefloor

PureFuckingIndustrial dancefloor
:::PFI presents STEAM PUNK and PERVERSION:::
This December the :::PureFuckingIndustrial::: residents DJCYBERCHRIST and DJKNINE will be rounding up some of the UK's hottest young DJtalent to bombard you with bass and seduce you with sexy, fucking music. So get your best steam punk outfits on and see you back in the future... the future is dark, sexy and perverted. The future is here now, and its :::PUREFUCKINGINDUSTRIAL:::

Fully Equipped Playpenz Dungeon, Mistress Rebekka as the house Domme, scene friendly DM's, and fetish art installation.

Couples Darkroom:
With seating, free condoms, free tissues, and monitors on the doors.

Chillout Zone:
Seating, bar and Thai food stall.

Theatre of Sin STAGE TIMES:

DJ 69 will be spinning between performances.

10.00 Satan's Strip Shows
10.40 Joe Black - The Minstrel
10.55 Luna.x - Seductive fetish dance
11.15 Ghostfire - Steampunk Band
12.00 Joe Black - The Abortion
12.15 Veronika Valentine - Venus Man Trap
12.30 Kittie Kohl– Clockwork Fairy Bellydance
12.45 Vermilion Embers - Steampunk shenanigans
1.00 Veronika Valentine - Dirty Cash
1.15 Joe Black (and his piano)
1.40 Transmutant

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FULL TRAVEL DIRECTIONS HERE

PRINCE KATOCO needs:

- Drummer

Contact the band here: cmp5000@hotmail.co.uk or ring Chris on 07506 550 303 or spoek@tiscali.co.uk or ring Joe on 07738 820 290.

Singer available - Contact Darren Holmes here: dareneholmes@hotmail.co.uk.

Porcupine Tree seem to be a reoccurring influence amongst tonights acts, none more so than with the support band Pineapple Thief (8/10). These boys from Somerset are clearly influenced by Steven Wilson, in both musicality and sound; yet vocally are closer to Placebo and Muse. This mixture highlights the new wave within modern progressive rock of taking almost electro sounds along with classic prog rock triats such as time signatures, amazing guitar effects and a strong musical grounding. All in all I was impressed with Pineapple Thief, their songs were strong and had enough musical wit to keep the crowd involved.

Riverside (10) have built up a solid underground reputation with their clearly influenced Pink Floyd style, with a 21st century twist and tonight clearly highlights it. Even though this is only their third UK show they have packed the academy out with loyal and devoted fans. The set mainly contains tracks from the first three albums but they do air the stronger tracks off of the new album 'Anno Domini High Definition'. Floyd and Porcupine Tree ooze out of every pore Riverside posses, Mariusz sings like an angel tonight whilst Pitor's guitar almost makes me weep with his beautiful bends and that 'less is more approach' that Riverside do so well, a skill that didn't do Pink Floyd any harm what so ever.

In some respect Riverside (like The Pineapple Thief before them) are the perfect English prog rock band. They have a relaxed; almost shy manner on stage and just get on with the job, only occasionally talking to the crowd, yet they have one characteristic that links them so strongly to bands like Floyd, Genesis and Yes: a hint of meloncholy; with Riverside though this is even stronger when you know they come from Poland, a country that has very little prospects in terms of jobs and still has the shadow of communist Russia hanging over its young shoulders. So when Mariusz sings 'From day to day... from hand to mouth' from 'Second Life Syndrome' you not only feel that very English sense of meloncholy (summed up so well by Roger Walters in 'Time' with the line: "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way") but you also feel the pain of someone growing up in Poland.

They were amazing tonight and I was left in very little doubt that they are the heirs to Pink Floyds crown! I know this is a bold statement yes but when I saw them about a year or two ago at the camden underworld I got a feeling I was watching something special, something truely important. Here in this medium sized venue they cemented that feeling and pinned their claim to the mast, improving upon their last London show at the underworld and getting that little bit better. The crowd were up for it to and went bonkers during the entire night.

So let me introduce to you Pink Floyds very worthy succesors... Riverside!

Review by Warren Holmes

Each month The Metal Cross night brings you a selection of local metal bands to the New Cross Inn.

Any band who's singer sounds a little like Barney Greenway from Napalm Death is always going to be interesting, and HEADRUSH (6.5/10) are certainly that. Tonight their middle-ground metal sound with extreme vocals works well. AMONGST THE ASHES (6) have a lot of ideas which shine through when they play. Their sound moves from heavy European style metal to a cover of Faith No More's 'The gentle art of making enemies' and then into a more groove-orientated direction as the set progresses. This lack of cohesion could of let them down but their fanbase enjoyed every last minute. F.S.I (7) look and sound like they have been touring their backsides off for years. Their self-styled shanty metal sounds like a drunken brawl between Mastodon and The Gates of Slumber, and their onstage presence is such that they not only take over the stage but the whole venue, leaving their huge muscular musical mark in the process.

Remember the times when you have seen a band and thought you could easily listen to them all night long, before being rudely awakened by the fact that the set had finished? Tonight Catford four-piece BRUTAI (8) are storming. The most impressive thing about their material is the way they effortlessly combine many influences into their own music without sounding like those influences. There is a little Trivium here and there, but dirtier and grittier with vocalist Felix Lawrie's floorless transition between gruff and melodic vocals enabling the songs to move without hindrance. There are bites of Maiden, but these are submerged into a network of wonderful riffs and roving solos from lead guitarist Henry Ryan, driving each song into musical ectasy. Meanwhile the rhythem section gives the band an extra layer, a an almost Gojira-style heaviness which keeps the band afloat on a sea of well structured songs. With the crowd transfixed Brutai manage to churn out one of the best performances by an unsigned band since Snakebite and Sanctorum at Bloodstock.

Catch Brutai in a small dark venue near you soon as it is only a matter of time before they are dragged into the light.

Review by Alan Hicks

Might Britsh war machine BOLT THROWER has confirmed a whole lotta shows for spring 2010!

• 29/04/10 - NL - Enschede - Atak
• 30/04/10 - NL - Tilburg - 013
• 01/05/10 - UK - London - ULU
• 02/05/10 - IE - Dublin - Button Factory
• 03/05/10 - UK - Belfast - Limelight
• 04/05/10 - UK - Leeds - Rio´s
• 05/05/10 - UK - Wrexham - Central Station
• 06/05/10 - UK - Birmingham - Asylum
• 07/05/10 - FR - Paris - Trabendo
• 08/05/10 - FR - Lyon - C.C.O.
• 09/05/10 - BE - Antwerpen - Trix Zaal
• 11/05/10 - PL - Warsaw - Progresja
• 12/05/10 - CZ - Prag - Abataon
• 13/05/10 - DE - Dessau - Metal Fest
• 14/05/10 - AT - Mining - Metal Fest
• 15/05/10 - CH - Pratteln - Metal Fest
• 16/05/10 - LU - Luxemburg - Kulturfabrik

Comments BOLT THROWER: "We, for one, are really looking forward to these shows, we'll be playing some of our favourite old haunts, also revisiting places we've haven't played in years. And we hope that by playing such a variety of shows, from intimate clubs to larger open air festivals there will be something for everyone. We'll be trying to make every show memorable, so watch this space for further details. Tickets for the club shows will go on sale as soon the support bands and door prices are confirmed."

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