Indie & Alternative night

PrivateEye

Much as I love Broken Social Scene, Animal Collective, TV on the Radio and their sort, Dub Step needs to die in a fire..... and thats from somebody who loves electronic too :pac:

I suppose this thread has proved you can't please everyone. Pitchers however are most def. the way forward.

Aridstarling

PrivateEye wrote: »

I suppose this thread has proved you can't please everyone. Pitchers however are most def. the way forward.

Musically maybe not, but cheap beer unites the masses.:cool:

djdeclan

The new night kicks off this Staurday (29th), really looking forward to it as It gives me the chance to play some real quality music!
Hopefully I'll see some of you there..

xochillixo

lets see....

defenitely M.I.A.
what about florence and the machine...rabbit heart etc...
allanis morresette
queen
sum chillis (rarely hear them being played these days)

disssco

mp3guy wrote: »

I'd prefer a metal (as if) or trance (proper progressive or psytrance) night way more than this. Honestly, Indie & Alternative is just as bad as pop.

Totally agree, at least in a night club situation anyway.

BuroniKiisu

djdeclan wrote: »

The new night kicks off this Staurday (29th), really looking forward to it as It gives me the chance to play some real quality music!
Hopefully I'll see some of you there..

Smiths reference FTW.

djdeclan

Hi guys

I've been informed that we won't be going ahead with this new night after all,
to those who offered suggestions and encouragement I say thank you, One thing I can promise is that come college time when Monday nights return we will be playing plenty of indie & alternative stuff - I've discovered a lot of new music over the last few weeks and I will be including it in my sets from now on. I will also push for a midweek Indie disco for the students, the boardsies will be the first to know if that is going to happen..

If any of ye are ever in O'Neills pop up and say hello, its always nice to meet boards folk in the real world!

ghostdancer

that's a pity, although i don't think it'd work too well on saturdays anyway.
i'd love to head along to hear decent music played, but i know on saturdays that most of my friends would just want to go to mantra by midnight, and i'd say with the lack of students around, it'd be harder to get a decent crowd at the weekends.

a few more dance-y indie-ish stuff that'd prob work well in sets:

tokyo police club
sunshine underground
bloc party
passion pit
friendly fires
DFA1979
chromeo
new young pony club
yeah yeah yeahs
MSTRKRFT
LCD soundsystem
editors
klaxons
hot chip
foals
white lies
simian mobile disco
the whip
doves
shiny toy guns
cajun dance party
we are scientists
the bravery
santigold
filthy dukes
blood red shoes


obviously no-one will be a fan of all those (myself included), but there'll be people that enjoy plenty of them.

as much as i'd love to hear more obscure stuff than that, i don't think a night made up with stuff like Grizzly Bear or TV on The Radio would work too well, and especially not dubstep, even though i love it, would be very out of place.

as long as it's a bit left-field, but still vaguely commercial enough to get people in, plus a deal on some drinks as mentioned before, then i think it would work well.

djdeclan

You have hit the nail squarely on the head with that post ghostdancer, as I said I will be including a lot more indie/alternative stuff in my sets from now on, especially early in the night 10:00 - 11:30 ish when its not too busy, so if you are a fan of quality music I'd say head up there early on and you'll hear some good stuff.

Beau

Anyone else have a feeling of dejavu? I'm sure this has happened before. Anyways, thats a pity.

LittleKitty

so no indie and alternative?
ah, thats just not fair! I just got very excited over nothing.
djdeclan....go talk to the ents officer in the su, or the comms officer, actually too.
please please please can we have an indie night.
NOWHERE (bar caulfields) IN MAYNOOTH PLAYS DECENT MUSIC ANYMORE.
not everyone wants to go to places that plays chart music.
thats why i have spent most of the summer drinking (well, smuggeling a hipflask into) Pravda and Crawdaddy in town.

PrivateEye

LittleKitty wrote: »

so no indie and alternative?
ah, thats just not fair! I just got very excited over nothing.
djdeclan....go talk to the ents officer in the su, or the comms officer, actually too.
please please please can we have an indie night.
NOWHERE (bar caulfields) IN MAYNOOTH PLAYS DECENT MUSIC ANYMORE.
not everyone wants to go to places that plays chart music.
thats why i have spent most of the summer drinking (well, smuggeling a hipflask into) Pravda and Crawdaddy in town.

Many times I've been in the coat-line at Antics or Thrashed and somebody goes "AH ITS YER MAN! YER MAN FROM MAYNOOTH!" and I take comfort from the fact I'm not alone.

djdeclan

LittleKitty wrote: »

so no indie and alternative?
ah, thats just not fair! I just got very excited over nothing.
djdeclan....go talk to the ents officer in the su, or the comms officer, actually too.
please please please can we have an indie night.
NOWHERE (bar caulfields) IN MAYNOOTH PLAYS DECENT MUSIC ANYMORE.
not everyone wants to go to places that plays chart music.
thats why i have spent most of the summer drinking (well, smuggeling a hipflask into) Pravda and Crawdaddy in town.

If you reckon we could work something out with the SU then I'd be well up for it, could you pm me with names/contact details? I fully agree that not everyone wants to hear chart music and to be honest I'm fairly p!ssed off myself that this isn't going ahead, I now need an outlet for my new found love for Friendly fires, White lies and the Yeah yeah yeahs!!

Actually can everyone that would be in favour of something like this on maybe a Tuesday night please post a message; I will show it to management and try to get them to go ahead with such a night..

White lies - Farewell to the fairground FTW BTW