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Events Archive Well you missed it, you definitely missed out. Never mind, read all about it here...
BandSoc Open Auditions: Wednesday 14th October, 2009
These auditions were open to everyone and we were happy to welcome some familiar faces as well as some not so familiar ones down to our band room in the basement... We invited the talented masses from the general uni population to either play:
YES... we Should have learned Kaiser Chiefs when we put it on the fucking list... but we do have to fail on at least one of them EVERY time - and anyway, I think those guys much prefered 'Stairway to Heaven' anyway! LOL. Anyway, we got very drunk and did ibb-dibbs to decide who got to type up the list. So if you auditioned you will recieve at least one email (probably about 2/3more) placing you with other musicians!
Open Live Music Night: New Members Special -Thursday 8th Oct, 2009
This is your first chance to get up and play at one of BandSoc's live music events and really get involved... A couple of our more 'senior' members (and by that I don't mean OLD at all, I mean, those what have been about a bit) kicked us off nicely and then we were entertained by some of our new and most excellent membership. These events happen every other Thursday so if you missed it - try to come to the next one - and hell why not think about getting up and playing - we really do emphasise and open and inclusive membership to all levels, so you are welcome to perform if you're an old hand or it's your very first time!
University of Liverpool Halls Tour - Monday 5th October '09
Yes! We did it halls style babee... Following the success of last year's visit to some of our halls of residence we are arranged a repeat performance and took our musical equipment and our bands 'on the road' as it were touring the University of Liverpool Halls of Residence. Thanks to:
If you or your band would like to be involved in future.... Firstly join the society - that is become a member - coz if you're not you can feck off like - wanting us to bend over for you when you can't even be bothered to become one of us... OK rant over... next, just drop us an email with the title - 'Halls tours' (or something similar) and we'll put your name on the list. band.society@gmail.com Simples. Meet 'n' greet, October 1st, 2009
This was where we introduced Newbies and guys looking for peeps for their bands ... kind of like speed dating... only for bands. OK, At this event you talked to people. You also signed up on the big match. We will type this up and send out to you! MEMBERS ONLY! UnderCover Live Music Night: Monday 28th Sept, 2009
This is your first chance to enjoy BandSoc's live music and see what we're all about... Some of our best student bands will play some of thier favourite covers from artists like: Kings of Leon, Foo Fighters, Muse, Queens of the Stone age, Paramore, RHCP, Kasabian, The Zutons, Rage against the Machine and much, much more! This is a FREE event as part of freshers week - so if you're not sure if Band Society might be for you - this is a good chance to see what our members do! Come down and enjoy some live music with us... we are a very relaxed society - welcoming of all levels of playing who just want to enjoy some music based fun!
Freshers Fair 2008 - Sunday, September 27th 2009
We will be there, in Mountford hall, Stall SE12 - just in the entrance to the bar (of course). Come early if you want to catch us sober, otherwise we'll be happy to answer all of your questions in whatever state we're in! Last year we gave away sweets, T-shirt transfers & stickers... This year we sold out our T-shits (and giving away to a few lucky signer-upers) a variety of goodies, and gave away plectrums, sweeties and information damn you! Membership cards : Members are reminded that thier cards are NOT issued until they've paid!
University of Liverpool Halls Tour - 09
Yes! We took our asses out to the halls and played a couple of nights... If you missed it you missed out dudes... I can't beleive we brought our shit out all the way to Carnie bar and halls and you missed it! Better luck next time... Make sure you come we've got some great bands for you!
BandSoc Live Music Nights: Thursday 21st May, 2009
Our last BandSoc live music Night of the academic year... Of course we will be coming back bigger and louder next term, but we had to squeeze one last one in!. As ever we brought all the equipment and the technical expertise - as well as recording on MP3, our photog snaped those pics of you on stage... Something more to take away from the experience than memories!
BandSoc Live Music Nights: Wednesday 6th May, 2009
Another storming chance to play ... We particularly encouraged first timer's in this session. Look out for another like this at the start of the new term!
AGM / End of term blow-out - Tuesday, 5th May, 2009
All Band Soc members were invited to our AGM (as always). This is where we decided things for the upcomming year. If you didn't come - then you can't moan about what we're doing this year as well as what we've been spending our money on! Good news is more committee members made it official!:
Meet N Greet PART II (& Pub Quiz): Tuesday 28th April, 2009
Another chance to just be sociable with the BandSoc Committee... We sat around and chewed the fat - discussing ideas for next year, ideas for band names... beer, tattoos and everything in between... Oh yeah and we won the pub quiz... of course!
BandSoc Live Music Nights: Thursday 9th April, 2009
Another storming chance to play ... We got some of our more experienced bands to play a storming set - including the incredibly sucessfull MinionTV - for whom exciting things are happening!
Battle of the Bands FINAL... Wednesday 1st April 2009
We brought you a storming final where YOU got to decide who got their name on the Champions trophy! Winners of the heats got to compete for the gand title as 2009 championees as well as a fantastic prize! ...A whole day at a professional recording studio (worth £150) and a video shoot by Liverpool University Student Media shot on broadcast quality cameras (Priceless!) to knock 'em dead on You-tube like! Not only that we helped with equipment and transport etc and generally made a whole lotta fuss about the winners who were: The Skindys - www.myspace.com/theskindys Notable Runners up were also last year's BOTB winners Pocket Apocalypse and Heavy Metal dudes 'The Institution'.
BandSoc Battle of the Bands Heats: HEAT 1: Thursday 12th March + HEAT 2: Wednesday 18th March 2009
This was stage 1 of the big one... time to step up and compete for kudos or just for funzies! Some of our champion bands stepped up and performed and in doing so were ALL winners. We know how hard it is to get your shit together and do that - so we thank ALL of the bands and artists and give them muchos Kudos... Winning and loosing is the breath of a hair - so your best bet is to keep competing... that's what we say! Anyway through to the finals were:
BandSoc Live Music Nights: Thursday 26th February, 2009
As usual our members stepped up to perform - and we had to send out for extra chairs as this night just keeps getting bigger and better! What more can I say... Apart from - we have got the recording down to a fine art now... contact us for your MP3's. GUYS, YOU ROCK! See pictures from the event on Facebook.
BandSoc Open Auditions: Wednesday 18th February, 2009
These auditions were open to everyone and we were happy to welcome some familiar faces as well as some not so familiar ones down to our band room in the basement... We invited the talented masses from the general uni population to either play: - No-one knows by QOTSA YES... we Should have learned 'Times like these' when we put it on the fucking list... but NO... we just didn't have the time...(By the way, thanks to James for helping us out there!) Anyway, we got very drunk and eventually managed to type up the list. If you auditioned you will / should have received at least one email (maybe more) placing you with other musicians! See pictures from the event on Facebook. BandSoc Live Music Nights: Thursday 12th February, 2009
BandSoc member's bands including... Pocket Appocolypse, Minion TV as well as an open mic session to start. And we'll pretend no-one heard the committee band sucking ass after only one practice post xmas... Seriously, we spend far too much time organising everything for everyone else so some times you just have to take it with a smile... See pictures from the event on Facebook.
Winter Jamboree: Wednesday 12th February, 2009
OK, this was take 2 for the Winter Jamboree (which I'm afraid failed somewhat miserably to get off the ground last semester... We can say that coz it wasn't us organising it! BandSoc signed up for a 1 hour slot on the stage at this joint performing arts societies event and and a few of our bands and solo acts did us proud. Even better - LUSM was there to capture it all on camera with their Oh and of course some of the other societies were there - and delighted us with some Rocky horror, Drama soc did their sticky floor improv as well as LUST doing some other stuff that was just plain wierd... Anyway, it was a good night. Yep, wish you could have been there buddy.
Re-freshers fayre: Monday 2nd / Wednesday 4th February
BandSoc will be manning a stall at this year's Re-Freshers fayre. Limited amount of freebies available ... If you're hanging out around the guild that day, come over to the stall - hell, help man the stall. We've got a limited amount of freebies to give away - mainly band society logo plectrums. You'll also be able to buy our new high quality T-Shirts and Hoodies! Annual Performing Arts Society Ball - Saturday, 31st January, 2009
The venue is booked so dust off those suits and ties (OK, not strictly, but dress to impress) for our joint performing arts societies ball... BandSoc have got together with our performing arts society chums across the guild to bring you the first annual performing arts society ball! Ticket price will include dinner and dancing (with a DJ and not strictly come stylee - don't worry!) at Liverpool's famous Adelphi hotel as well as an after party! BandSoc will also Subsidise it's members tickets by 25% !!! You may bring guests, but they must pay full ticket price. Tickets are running out fast - so get yours now!!!...
BandSoc Live Music Showcase: Wednesday 17th December, 2008
BandSoc member's bands including... 'Fused' (now known as 'Highriser'), 'The Bushes' and 'some old guys' as well as an open mic session to start. We had a blast. Free sandwiches too. What do you mean you went home early!? Loser(!) Apart from tripping the decibel meter half way through High Riser's set the playing was good and we were graced with the presense of the old guys who showed us what it was like to be 50+ and STILL crazy about playing live.. See pictures from the event here.
Write a song together: Friday 12th December, 2008
Ever wondered what it takes to write a song? Bags of talent?... Sometimes... Sense of humour?... Mostly... Determination?... Always... An audience?... Are you kidding!? We have to say, band soc members were few... Most of us were playing in the committee band, but we had A LOT of fun writing a song with the fantastic input of (mostly) another society who happened to be in the SaraWiwa at the time... Guys, you rocked! Subject, styles, moods and keys were all done via audience participation - as were the sometimes 'choice' lyrics. We wrote a song in D minor, a moody, indie vibe called 'Being in love with Kyle' (a guy who was glad he sat on the front row table) detailing the sad, sad story of a young man who got caught up in the French Revolution - and well, lost his head over Kyle... We also wrote a song about 'Time travel' in an 80's unk style revving up about a Delorian and speeding past 88 mph... and finally a red-neck-rock song about 'me and my brother in a pickup truck' and well, some stuff what we really shouldn't be putt'n up here 'bout things them say 'bout country folk. There was an open competition for the best 'version' of any of these songs, but hell, no-one came up with any so we (the bandsoc committee band) won! Next time - make sure you're there to show us up for the alchol hampered ham-fisters we are!
Beginer's Guitar: Wednesday Afternoon, 10th December, 2008
BandSoc opened its arms to the unfortunate fortunates who are not yet addicted to guitar... to vagabonds and strays and even drummers who want to put down their bludgeoning tools, wipe the drool from their mouths and have a go at something a little trickier ... *Ducks to avoid flying drum stick* All beginners who fancied learning a bit of guitar were welcomed to our beginners guitar session. Our co-pres Kiran (a grade 8 classical guitarist no less) took usthrough some basics as we learned a song together: Wild thing by the troggs. All beginner abilities are always welcome at our classes from totally raw to know a few chords as we use a play-along at your own pace method. The score from the session(in the form of a printable poster with handy chord diagrams) is available for download here.
'Just Chillin' Casual Social: Friday, November 28th, 2008
A chance to talk about nothing and everything, maybe even make some informal plans to collaborate or take over the world ... OK, maybe not take over the world, but at least maybe offer to have a jam. Or disagree about the guitar skills of your friend's latest man crush. Whatever suits. It's just a few drinks really and a chance to shoot the breeze and talk about creative stuff. We start in the SaraWiwa from 8.00pm for a few cheeky £1 pints before heading off to some nightclub somewhere in Liverpool till horribly, horribly drunk*! *University 'safe' drinking policy disclaimer... humour, of course only joking, of course....
BANDSOC SUPPORTS: Our members & Friends bands at the Jack Daniels Battle of the Bands, Liverpool Competition, Tuesday 11th November, 2008
BandSoc went down to support our members and bands entering this competition and watched as some of our most talented members kicked fricken butt!!! Pocket Appocolypse did themselves and the BandSociety proud - and have always been gracious about the role the society has played in getting them together. There were some talented bands at this universities only events - proving that university is a great place to start a band... Hey,it's not too late for you to do it too - some of the other bandshad only been together a few weeks! Other bands were: 'Skip Intro'; 'Luke and the explosives' and 'The LP'. Congratulations to everyone. You all played blinding sets. Listen guys, Pocket Appocolypse are our current BandSoc 2008 Battle of the Bands Champs - if you fancy your chances being our 2009 - GET PRACTICING!
Open Mic Night - Friday November 7th, 2008
One of several incarnations of event that gives you a chance to perform ... The society aims to hold about four open mic nights spread out across the year, in the expectation that it will give everyone who wants an informal chance to perform. We have put on numberous open mic nights since we started and are now expert at making you sound good! We have all of our own equipment and sound techs who manage to make a silk purse out of a rough cut sows ear every time. We have acoustic pickups available for your guitars as well as amplifiers for your electric and electro-acoustics and high quality directional mics for your instruments. A keyboard and PA are also set up by our sound techs for your use. We even allow the use of our own instruments for those without. Plus the option of a bit of improvised backing from our rhythm section. Add that to the general incompetence of the bandsociety committee running the show and you get a great evening with a chilled athmosphere where you can dare to try new things! We stress the informal in these nights, as they are primarily a supportive area for people who are both old hands at playing in front of crowds and those doing so for the first time. Just bring your guitars, your talent and your chums, we'll do the rest!
BandSoc Equipment Roam, Friday 10th October, 2008
This is your chance to get to know the workings of all the equipment we use in the band room and for our live performances... We took it in turns to do 5 minute talks on all aspects of the band room equipment and welcomed old hands as well as new. IF you didn't make it - be sure to get some tips from those who did on how to get the best from our equipment. How to record yourself and how not to annoy our neighbours upstairs!
BandSoc meet 'n' greet - Date Wednesday 1st October, 2008
This is an informal opportunity to meet other musicians in bands or looking to form a band... We'll bring some table games and stickers and endeavour to introduce ourselves. You're free to mingle and look for like minded souls and arrange future opportunitites to jam. We will also bring along our 'wanted and seeking' sheet for you to add your details (if you want) which we will then send out in our e-mail bulletin to the membership list. Yes, last year, someone did bring a guitar and some of us did end up sitting around on the floor for a bit of a strum and a sing-along. Sad, true, but really quite shamefully enjoyable. I can't promise there won't be a repeat performance and we hope that won't put you off too much! We'll see you there then...
Freshers Fair 2008 - Sunday, September 28th 2008
We will be there, in Mountford hall, Stall PE68 - just near the entrance to the bar (of course). Come early if you want to catch us sober, otherwise we'll be happy to answer all of your questions in whatever state we're in! Last year we gave away sweets, T-shirt transfers & stickers... This year we'll be selling (and giving away to a few lucky signer-upers) a variety of goodies, including T-shirt transfers, stickers, window stickers, plectrums, sweeties and information damn you! Membership cards : This year we will be bringing the membership card machine to Freshers fair. If you join online at LGOS, or if you join at the base and bring your receipt we will make up your membership card there and then!
AGM / End of term blow-out - Monday, April 28th
Term ended early this year, so we had our AGM on Monday, 28th April. This is where we decided things for the upcomming year. If you didn't come - then you can't moan about what we're doing this year as well as what we've been spending our money on! As ever, all BandSoc members were welcome to attend and we discussed, decided and announced a range of things from equipment to venues to people and back again. We decided to blow a whole fistfull of our dollars on new equipment and repairs in the bandroom - so you might be in for a pleasant surprise in the new term. As ever - we remain open to suggestions and people... Just come along - or even email the society. You might just like it! We then drank ourselves into oblivion. Oh sorry, no we didn't - the university has a policy on 'responsible drinking' - yeah, I remember now.
Open Mic Night - April 2008 Have you ever had the feeling you've forgotten something... Yeah man, something happened. I can't remember. We really should make a better note of these open mic nights...
Battle of the Bands: 21st February - 14th March, 2008
We got together with Liverpool's very own guild of students - who got together with other Liverpool based students to bring you the biggest, baddest damn Battle of the Bands comepetition this university had EVER SEEN! BandSoc's finest talent pitched against other Liverpool Bands for the coverted title... Or in fact one of two coverted titles... Outright Battle of the Bands winner and winner of the Liverpool Band Society title... Each with fantabulous prizes...
BandSoc Title Winner: Your name on our prestigeous trophy, press as winner, plus other goodies... Overall Winner: A frigging scary prize to blow minds... Sponsors Red Stripe agreed to get the winner actual proper paying gigs - with the big boys and girls! The winners - The Crew - did indeed go on to bigger and better things. Check out their myspace page for more details. The Heats: Each band played 3 songs of their choosing, 10-15 mins. Covers were permitted but progression to the finals based on Audience appreciation (yes we dusted off our favourite clap-o-meter) The finals were judged (again) by both audience appreciation and a professional panel comprising of: (1) Our own music biz Si Monkhouse (a drummer in a local signed metal band) Even for those not playing - watching your buddies pitting themselves against their talented peers was nailbiting!
Dates: Final: Friday 14th, March, 2008 Held in Liverpool Guild of Students, Liverpool Uni... 8.00pm - late
Heat 3: Thursday, 8th March, 2008 Held in Liverpool Student Union, John Moores... 8.00pm - late
Heat 2: Thursday, 28th February, 2008 Held in Liverpool Guild of Students, Liverpool Uni... 8.00pm - late
Heat 1: Thursday, 21st February, 2008 Held in Liverpool Student Union, John Moores... 8.00pm - late
Culture Fusion - 22nd February, 2008
BandSoc provided aperformance for this extravaganza of an event... Performing arts and Cultural societies from across the university were hearded together by the good folks at the guild to bring you this fusion of music, dance, food and who knows what else that makes our university so great. The event literally was a fusion of practically every culture at the uni - from Indian Karaoke, to slick city style improve to Vietnamese food... This event had it all... And of course was topped off with a freeking awesome performance by the band society house band highlighting 'Merseybeat' and 'Scouse-Rock' classics. All Proceeds went to support Juvanille Diabetes research so those that attended can feel damn good about themselves too!
Open Mic Night - January 2008 Have you ever had the feeling you've forgotten something... Yeah man, something happened. I can't remember. We really should make a better note of these open mic nights...
Open Band Night - 14th December, 2007
Got a band and a few songs?... Got a band and missing some members?... Not got a band?... Bring your band or come and play any instrument (or voice!) with the Committee House Band... Yes, your favourite event and ours... It's Band Society's Open Band Night! If you've never been to an Open Band Night before - don't worry, it's just like an Open Mic Night, but with Bands... It's a free-for-all. So if you've got a band and want to play us a couple of your numbers, come over, we'll have a drum kit and keyboards set up as well as amps and P.A.... Just bring yourselves, your guitars and your friends! If you don't have a band - or have a part of a band - the Band Society Committee House Band (House of Jack) will be playing with an open set list (see below). On the night you can sign up to guest with them on any of the instruments (including voice) for any of the songs... IT COULDN'T BE SIMPLER NOW COULD IT Check out the open set-list for the house band and on the night sign up on the sign-up sheet for any instrument for any of the songs... It's as simple as that. Don't worry about getting it right - we're not averse to starting and re-starting. The athmosphere will be centred around musicians enjoying the company of other musicians and music fans who enjoy the creative process. Open Set List
There will be a sheet of paper for you to sign-up on the night... so get there early and get practicing! The Last Showcase event of '07 - Wednesday November 21st, 2007
Our Last Showcase of the accademic year supported two of our favourite Band-Society Bands... 'Aprentis' and 'Iguana'... and of course your very favouritist favourite and ours - the good old BandSoc committee band 'House of Jack'.
If you want to check out either of the bands that were showcased take a look-see at their myspace pages: If you think it should have been you then great! Give us an email and tell us about your material, we will pop in and see you rehearsing some time and who knows next time it might be you! We hope to put up some of the pictures from these events soon!
Open Mic Night for Children in Need - Friday, November 16th, 2007
We went out to the 'burbs for this one and put on an open mic night in aid of children in need. We were entertained by performances from BandSoc members and halls residents alike, took a collection and a raffle all in aid of BBC's Children in Need. Yes - it's true - we do get up and outside of the guild for a good cause! BandSoc Members Freebee: Will Tang live at the Academy 2 - Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Our lovely ex-BandSoc committeee member Simon now promotes artists and very kindly offered Band Society members free entry to this gig! Tickets were normally £8 on the door - so our members got to save a packet by emailing us to put them on the list... Just one of the many perks of being a BandSoc member! Fem-Rock - Open Mic night - Friday, November 9th, 2007
As part of our remit to build bridges with other societies and encourage wider participation in student events across the Guild of Students, we ran our November Open Mic Night in association with the Guild Women's Group. ALL WERE WELCOME (whatever flavour of student) and we put no restriction on the music - but are glad that many took the opportunity to encourage and celebrate women's contributions to the contemporary music scene. The event also included (at some point) a raffle for the benefit of a women's refuge and shelter (with some very interesting prizes!) and raised £120 alone! Thanks to all those who brought their, your talent and friends... catch us next time if you missed it! BandSoc 'Meet n Greet' - Wednesday October 10th, 2007
This is your chance to start talking... to us... to each other... to yourself... Or you could just sit there and laugh at us. Come along to the SaraWiwa Bar and find out just what a load of self-indulgent, muso-layabouts we really are.
Freshers Fair - Sunday 23rd September, 11am-4pm :
Yes, this was your big chance to talk to us and sign up. For those of you who did - hurrah! I hope you signed up to the mailing list and maybe even taken the plunge and joined up. We had a grand time down on stall 73, with our President offering 'much love' to any new members (could explain some things Ed...)
Freshers Open Mic Night - Thursday 20th September, 7pm :
We had a hell-of-a-good time at this, our first event of the new academic year. This event was held in association with the Guild and aimed at getting home student Freshers oot and aboot - which it fair did - and my, did we discover some talent! Archie Sylvester - you can really play that guitar now can't you!? In fact, thanks to all those brave souls who got up and played for us - and maybe realised that it's not so scary after all. If you missed it, don't worry, there will be another one along soon and we would encourage you to bring your guitars and / or your ears and enjoy the ambience of Liverpool student's live music.
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