NAME : Pineapster = music co-operative, well sort of.
CREATOR : Charnwood Arts
WHY? : To help you lot, the musicians, the bands, and people who love to go to gigs. And despite Kasabian, the Leicester music scene well, was'nt that great.
HOW? : Charity started website, website taken over supportive web company (Cuttlefish) and hosted for free. Local bands formed, grew local followings, who formed more bands, bands then got on he radio, and namedropped by Bloc Party in the NME (Love Ends Disaster), then on the festival stage (Summer Sundae) and the record shops (across the UK) .and the bar is set. So much Jo Whiley did a feature on us for her BBC RADIO ONE Show `In New Music We Trust`
PROGRESS? : It was very hard to get people to take any notice, so we started a club night, and people began to take notice
CLUB NIGHT? : The Communion
WHERE? : It started at the Attik and ran for 2 years. Now we've moved to bigger, posher accomocations and we're upstairs at Firebug bar in leicester
WHEN? : Once a month, usually on the last thursday of each month. they each feature 3 bands, and lots of nice people come to watch.
MONEY? : Pineapster DO NOT make any money from the Communions. All we want is a decent night out to showcase bands, both local and further afield. We book the night, promote it to buggery and get a decent audience. The gigs are free entrance, but we keep NOTHING and the venue pay for the sound engineer.
WHO CAN PLAY? : Anyone. We just cant pay you.
SPECIAL NIGHTS? : There will be curated nights in 2007, and a beer BBQ, and Summer Sundae of course.
SUMMER SUNDAE? : The annual festival at Demontfort Hall, 5500 people, lots of beer, lots of music, a BBC radio station and much fun. We ran the offical warm up party for Summer Sundae 2006.
A SUCCESS? : 350 people came, we turned another 150 away and we raised £2,000 for charity (and ten people climbed fences to get in). The audience drank the pub dry all 1,056 pints of beer.
SUMMER SUNDAE 2007? : We're running the warm up party again, well actually we're running 4 of them, all on one night, as a fringe festival. (WATCH THIS SPACE FOR DETAILS).
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