THURSDAY NIGHT ROCK NIGHTS MOVE TO THE DRAYMAN - STARTING THIS WEEK!!
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SPECIAL OFFER - FREE ENTRY!
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SECOND METAL SEMI FINAL IS NEARLY HERE!

4 years and 9 months after starting the first Rock Night at the Kings Arms, we finally get a venue to give YOU what you wanted. 2 Floors, 3 Bars, Patio + BBQ, Pool tables, Drinks promos (Vod + Red Bull Mix at £3) various Beers at £2.50 and 2 for 1 cocktails and... ALL the music you can handle form 4 dj's per night.

The Noise Gate 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 and more extreme side!!

2 Pool Tables

Projection Screens, Lighting, Effects!

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

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

Drinks Promo's inc, 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 loyalty card holders – £1.00 for everyone else.

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

RESULTS FOR MONDAY 24 MARCH – Alternative (Bexleyheath)

1ST – BRAIN ACHE

2ND – LIVE POLITICS

3RD – THEIR STRANGE GATHERING

RESULTS FOR MONDAY 24 MARCH – Alternative (Dartford)

1ST – APOLLO WITHSTANDS

2ND – RED 13

3RD – BLACKBIRD

RESULTS FOR TUESDAY 25 MARCH – Alternative

1ST – CODES IN THE CLOUDS

2ND – CRACK SILENCE AND THE WIDOW SYNDROME

3RD – YOUR BROKEN EGO

RESULTS FOR WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH – Alternative

1ST – DIRTY SAM

2ND – SCARLETT OCCURANCE

3RD – DISTURBANCE WITHIN

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.

Sponsors:

DINGO JACKS MUSIC STORE | ELEPHANT MUSIC | DOGHOUSE MUSIC | ROADRUNNER RECORDS UK | MEDIA SOURCING | VICTORY RECORDS | DEMOLITION RECORDS

Partners:

BLOODSTOCK-METAL TO THE MASSES | ORE NET SERVICES | JIGGA JAM STUDIOS

Support from:

TGR 103.7FM | NEWSSHOPPER | BEXLEY COUNCIL | KN MEGA PIX | RICHARD MORRIS PHOTOGRAPHY

The unique alternative rock style of DIESEL SKY comes up against funkmeisters ELEPHANT HEAD. THE PRESSURE 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.

Without Remorse are to be joined by one of the following three bands in the Metal to the Masses final. The symphonic death metal of SILENT DESCENT carried them through last weeks heat and tonight they are up against the groove orientated attack of both KLUNK and DESIGNS OF CHAOS. DJ LIFEGUARD BUNNY will be spinning some metal tunes 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. MDMA hope there excentric mix of everything from metal, punk, hip hop and reggae will beat off the challenge of groove rock n rollers WIRED. A BOY NAMED GIRL also compete.

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!

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.

UNEARTH's first-ever DVD, "Alive from the Apocalypse", debuted at No. 13 on Billboard's Top Music Videos chart with first-week sales of 1,800 copies. It also landed at No. 15 on the Top Video/DVD chart in Canada, where it was certified gold just one week after its release!

Canada is the first territory to commemorate certified gold status of "Alive from the Apocalypse".

Commented singer Trevor Phipps: "Heavy metal, travelling the world, all the beer and whiskey we can drink, and now a gold DVD. Fuck, man, does it get any cooler than this? Thanks to all our fans in Canada for being the first country to make any of our releases gold. You all have supported us ever since our first trip north of the border in 1999 and shit just keeps getting better. You all fucking rule. See you on the road soon and thanks!!!"

www.unearth.tv

www.myspace.com/unearth

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.

Offer 1:

We are doing a Free entry Ticket to a Darbex Live Event Worth £3 IF they print off the 'offer' and provide us with email, mobile and DOB at THIS weeks opening night at the Drayman! This in turn is to offer those who's birthday it is a WEEK of FREE ENTRY to all RM events! In other words a second offer until end of July and 'at our discretion'.

Offer 2:

Those on the mailing list and that submit ket info will get FREE entry to all Rock Matrix events from week come monday-sunday worth £10 atm.

These offers begin on Sunday 30th March 2008!

Alright guys voting time - text SURFACE 453 to 83149 to vote for Live Politics in a national battle of the bands!

There must be a space between surface and 453! Forward this to everyone - feel free to vote as many times as you want!

www.myspace.com/livepolitics.

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Please contact Shane:

snake_tooth@hotmail.com

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

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