Indie/Alternative night

djdeclan

Good people of Kildare,
After a bit of thought and a lot of talking we have decided its time to run an Indie & Alternative night in Maynooth, OMG (exclamation mark). It will be every Saturday night upstairs in O'Neills and I will be the fantaboulus DJ.

What you will NOT hear:

Rihanna
Lady Gaga
Madonna
Timbaland
Spice Girls (*cough* Bradys *cough*)
Hey Mickey
YMCA
Westlife
Dolly Parton (*cough* The Roost *cough*)
Scooter (*cough* Zinc *cough*)
Tiesto (Story bud)

What else you won't hear
"Sorry lads you can't come in here wearing Converse"

What you will hear;

The Kings of Leon
The Pixies
The Strokes
Razorlight
The Libertines
Bloc Party
Kasabian
Soulwax
Justice
Empire of the sun
The Clash
Etc etc etc...

But I want some input...
I want to know what the public want to hear, what you expect from such a night. Its gonna have to be danceable (is that even a word) music which cuts out some stuff but all suggestions are welcome..

If this works (and I'm fairly confident it will) we might look at putting on a similar night during the week for the student population (yeah baby!)

*The views expressed in this email are the views of djdeclan and not those of O'Neills, terms and conditions apply, the volume of the music may go up as well as down. djdeclan is authorised by the Financial Regulator to tear up your dancefloor. djdeclan cannot be held responsible for injuries sustained while dancing on said torn up dancefloor.

Tallon

My mate runs an indie night in Dublin every tuesday, if you want to go in tonight let me know and Ill get you Guest list , you'll get a feel for the type of music.

Its in andrews lane theatre

df1985

great idea and badly needed.if i was going (and i probably will) id expect maybe comin towards the end when people are pissed stick on some dancey stuff-hot chip, friendly fires, soulwax etc otherwise people could get bored and leave for mantra etc. dont know if you want to go down a dance route but throwing on an odd daft punk/chemical brothers/basement jaxx song would be good too. early on more indie stuff while people are drinking.

just hope it wont be a skinny jean/tea towel scarf/beanie fest either.

Sam Hain

Totally agree with everything df1985 posted, throwing in some dancier stuff, would keep the floor going, stuff like boys noize, justice, hot chip, soulwax, phoenix, simian mobile disco, discovery, DJ shadow, LCD soundsytem, Presets, MSTRKRFT, Ratatat, the rapture etc., all that kinda stuff would work well with the more commercially acessible indie music

djdeclan

The new night is kicking off this Saturday (29th) in O'Neills, hopefully I'll see some of you there.

Tallon

Thats a terrible poster

djdeclan

Tallon wrote: »

Thats a terrible poster

I'll have you know I spent a good 90 seconds working on that poster!
Seriously though, its not a poster, its a graphic I put on a discussion forum in order to raise some awareness of the gig...

That ok hotshot?

Tallon

Yeah its ok.
Except it makes me not want to go now

djdeclan

Well if the graphic I used to promote a music event (that does not incorporate any visuals or graphics) makes you not want to go then very well, don't go.
I'm delighted for you.

Tallon

Theres no point in being annoyed about it.

You asked for input in your OP and then never responded to any of the peoples comments.

Your trying to promote your night yet you only spend 90seconds on an advertisement (that IMO looks crap)

You then try to be smart by calling me hotshot.


I think it's a great idea, Maynooth needs it!
I also hope the night goes really well for you
But you need to put in a bit more effort and listen to the people you just asked for advice

djdeclan

Point taken, I got fairly narked by your post, I hadn't noticed that you had already posted in the thread so I apologise for the smart remark.
Point taken also that I didn't respond to anybodys comments in this thread, I posted the same thing in the NUIM thread and posted a few replies on that one. But don't think for a second that I haven't taken on board everything that has been said on both threads, I've looked up all the artists mentioned here that I didn't know already, added A LOT of music to my collection and read up on all the artists I wasn't familiar with (although thats just me being a bit of a nerd).

Anyway thanks for the replies, advice and good wishes. Hopefully I get a crowd on Saturday and everybody has a good night.

djdeclan

Hi guys,

I've been informed that we will not be going ahead with this new night after all, I'd like to thank everybody who contributed to this thread with advice and encouragement, I have discovered a lot of new music over the last few weeks and I will definately be playing some of it in my sets from now on.
I intend to push for a midweek Indie disco night when the students come back, if that happens then the boardsies will be the first to know.

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

Redsoxfan

That's a pity-would have been interested in an Indie night run by a Donegal lad (like myself) in Maynooth on a Saturday.

Spiderman80884

Why pray tell is it not going ahead?

Sam Hain

what happened? your public deserves to know