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Getting gigs in Cambridge
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R*E*P*E*A*T Music Services

The Big Badger Music Shack offers quality recording at a budget price. Based in deepest North Arbury, it's compact yet relaxed atmosphere is suitable either for recording 'live' or in separate takes.

While I accumulate equipment and expertise, I'm offering bargain rates, so get in touch here for a good deal. As well as recording demos for young bands (Blue Light Club, listen here, and Feedback, listen here) I've also produced release quality recordings for the likes of Hyman Roth (listen here) and Pop Art (listen here).

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Cheap CD duplication

R*E*P*E*A*T offers very cheap CDr duplication on our super-duper state of the art copier. Bands using our service include The Shills, Ten City Nation, Johnny Panic, Cosy Cosy, Bomb Factory, and Miss Black America.

Mail us here for more info


Other Recording Studios with links to R*E*P*E*A*T

The Hub

http://www.thehubsoundstudios.co.uk/

This is the studio / practice rooms once known as Mullet Boy situated near Newmarket Road in Cambridge. It is now run by the audio expert who is Chris of The Great Mistakes who is planning great things - have a look at their website for more information.

"We offer fully professional recording studios, rehearsal space for bands, instrumental tuition and group workshops. Based just outside the centre of Cambridge, our aim is to be the hub for Cambridge’s musicians in a relaxed and professional environment.

We are always in contact with promoters, venues and bands in the local music scene and are happy to help you get gigs and promote your music.

Feel free to drop by and see what The Hub is about."

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Dalton Home Studio

www.daltonhomestudio.co.uk

Dalton Home Studio is the new venture of Beth from Talkshift and No Plan B. Not a lot of information on their website at the moment but get in their early if you want a bargain as they get themselves sorted out.

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Mobile Recording Services

This lot e-mailed out of the blue so I can't vouch for them but they seem to offer some good deals and have some cool equipment

 

http://www.mobilerecording.biz/


 

Painter Man -
Seymour Patrick on the Radio!



London-based internet radio station Xstream East is proud to announce the launch of a new weekly music show. Hosted by Ten City Nation guitarist (and former Miss Black America frontman) Seymour Patrick, The Painter's Radio Show aims simply to bring you "interesting stuff you might not have heard before" every Thursday from 8pm to 10pm.

Seymour is keen to encourage promoters and fans of music to let him know what music - new or old, cool or not so cool - they're passionate about, as "the future of humanity may depend on it". Bands are also welcome to get in touch with links or mp3s.

The show launches on Thursday 4th March, with London-based
Artrocker-favourites William joining Seymour in the studio to co-host part of the show.

To listen, tune in at www.xstreameast.co.uk

Seymour can be contact directly via the show's Facebook group, MySpace
page or E-mail:
www.myspace.com/paintersradioshow
www.facebook.com/paintersradioshow
paintersradioshow@yahoo.co.uk


 

 

Manic Street Preachers
Gear Guide here


 

Grange Farm Studions near Ely

A state of the art recording and production facility located in the beautiful and unique Fenland countryside. With the residential option, the studio is housed in a purposefully designed and renovated 200 year old barn on 10 acres of land, running a Pro-Tools HD2 system with both a DigiDesign C|24 console and Soundcraft 6000 36 channel mixer, with plenty of outboard processors and a variety of microphones. The spacious, double height live room contains a Winchester piano, Pearl Export Drums and guitar and bass amps. There is also a dead room and a large studio lounge with plenty of comfy places to chill, sky TV and entertainments system, all with full air-con.

Grange Farm studio has a stunning setting and an inspiring atmosphere, fantastic recording quality at unbeatable prices.

Look here


 

New Recording Studio

Hey There

Jon and Chris here from VENOMBASE STUDIOS
www.myspace.com/venombasestudios

We have done many solid acts across the board of music from Metal to Indie to Dance to Jazz to Hip Hop. We are capable of recording all genre's of music

Other Services we do are :-
Management
Booking
Tuition (Guitar, Bass, Drums, Singing and DJ)
Experience Days
Rehearsal Space
Storage
Promotional Nights
Sponsorship

We are very passionate about the UK Scenes and with us both having experience in bands we know exactly what a band needs and we strive on catering for all that a band needs under one roof!

Prices as low as £75-£120 a day, depending on what you want.

We hope to hear from you soon!

Regards,
Jon and Chris
VENOMBASE STUDIOS
Stoke on Trent
www.myspace.com/venombasestudios
TEL - 07881750723


 

SPYTUNES.CO.UK
A new community for comprehensive online guitar education.


The guitar; the most popular instrument in the world, yet only mastered by a few is seeing a new dawn. For the first time, SpyTunes have created a system that reveals how the guitar works as an instrument.

By looking at how popular music has been written on the guitar, Spytunes have developed a scale theory called “The Guitar Conspiracy” and a practice routine called “The Self Eliminating Practice Routine”. Together they explain how music works from the guitars perspective.

Spytunes has been under development for almost 2 years, and with the launch of the new site it now offers its users:
• A complete practice scheme, from beginner to guitar guru standard.
• 50 of the most popular songs of our time analysed through video lessons, linked to a system called DIY TAB. By analysing your own playing you will not only learn the tune, but learn from the tune!
• In SpyTv you can learn more about the people behind the tunes that have shaped our
time. Including video performances and complete biographies.
• HD video for all 650 video lessons. Covering chords, scales, arpeggios, and demonstrations of concepts and tunes.
• A growing community of guitar players learning how to play the guitar as an instrument rather than from muscle memory.

Join as a member
Become a member by making a donation and you will receive even more!
• “The Guitar Conspiracy”, a 335 page guide to how the guitar has shaped popular music harmonically. By understanding this can enter a different level of guitar playing.
• You will get access to the forum where you can discuss your playing with other users and ask The Guitar Guru anything guitar related.
• You can also upload videos of yourself playing. This way everyone in the community
can all have a closer look at your individual development.


So how much does this cost?


SpyTunes is a free guitar tuition website that survives on its members donations, there is no set membership fee.
Having re-launched on the 6th of January 2009, Spytunes has attracted 27,000 visitors/month and has already grown out of two servers, however members are donating generously and they are looking strong for 2009.
Teach you hands the language of music, and learn from the guitars perspective.


To find out more visit http://Spytunes.co.uk


 

Songwriters - Join PRS for £10!

It used to cost £100 to join the Performing Rights Society, the society dedicated to collecting royalties for songwriters. In a bid to sign up more bedroom writers and internet musicians, PRS has reduced the price to just £10. They will then collect royaltie for you if your music is performed on radio or TV, and is also seeking to get internet rights sorted out.

To join look at www.prsformusic.com/joinus



New Studio in Cambridgeshire

Perry Road Studios are situated in Buckden, Cambridgeshire and boast a host of state of the art equipment and expertise. They also offer special rates for unsigned bands. More details here


 

Radio 6 after Myspace Bands


I got the below from ex R*E*P*E*A*T writer Rowan who now works for radio 1 / radio 6, and thought yr band might be interested!

RR


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Hi Richard,

How are you? Hope all's well and things are going well at school and with the fanzine.

Dunno if you've seen this yet, but my colleagues at 6 Music have launched a new unsigned music show and podcast presented Tom Robinson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/tom_robinsons_introducing/

The idea is that bands with a MySpace page or online presence submit their link via the website and Tom plays out the best stuff he finds. Tom chooses every track personally (and makes the podcast himself!), so suffice to say it's a great chance for new, unsigned bands to get their material heard...

If you wanna forward this onto anyone who might be interested please feel free.

Hope to see you soon, take care

Rowan

P.S - Interviewed Bob Mould and Mick Jones last week which reminded me that you bought me my first Husker Du LP and played me my first Clash record, so thank you :)


 

Air Time for local bands

A Message from Neil Jones of Star FM

Happy New Year n all that malarky.

Am just getting in touch regarding a new feature on my radio show on Star FM. As well as featuring all the usual 'big name' interviews, 2008 will also see us doing more for the local scene and I'll be running a 'new band' slot on the show with a local band live on air every week.

I've already fillled all the January slots (Wolves Stole My Childhood, Yo Yo Litvinenko, General Lee, Katie Parker & The Elements) but am keen to get the message out to local bands that there is free airtime for them up for grabs. All they need to do is contact me via www.myspace.com/starradiorockshow.

Cheers


Neil

 


Rhythm Online - the best place for all yr indie needs

WHO WE ARE
Rhythm Online is a small independent "record shop on the net", run by Nick and Jude Clarke from our small terraced house in Cambridge, and found at:
http://www.rhythmonline.co.uk

We specialise in all things alternative or 'independent', and pride ourselves on the size and comprehensive yet eclectic nature of our listings. We can offer all the newest indie releases and also a huge selection of rare and collectible items. We're also dead good at tracking stuff down for our customers, whether or not it's in our database.

WHY WE ARE CONTACTING YOU NOW

Since our site relaunched in August we've decided to make it our mission to publicise what we do more widely. We think that more than just a small group of those "in the know" around the world would enjoy and use our services if they were aware of them. We are looking, therefore, for any coverage that we can get from relevant publications and websites. Don't you think your readers would like to know about us? If so, please read on and we'll tell you more…


HOW WE STARTED


Rhythm's first incarnation was as a market stall in Plymouth, which Nick started in 1985 having quickly tired of a management job at HMV (who had 'headhunted' him when he was happily working for the now-defunct Andy's Records). The market stall soon developed into a mail order catalogue – starting with laboriously hand-typed lists in the pre-computer age, and then slowly evolving in size and sophistication until we finally took the plunge and went online in the early noughties. 2007 saw a dramatic revamp of our previously pretty low-tech website into the current format, which we are trying very VERY hard not to call Rhythm 2.0.

WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT

Despite the changing formats over the years, our "ethos" has remained pretty much the same – we are first and foremost music fans, and are in this for the love of music. We are passionate about offering our customers – some of the coolest and most dedicated musos in the world – a real, friendly, helpful, personal service. We care about this stuff, and we also care about making sure our listings are as up-to-date, accurate and relevant as possible for people who share our passion (obsession?).

We now have a database of over 120,000 releases, which is updated several times every day. Not many sites, we think, can match ours for comprehensiveness. The new design also means that our customers can search and interrogate the database in different ways (by release date, by keyword, by artist name), helping them to unearth many an obscure gem from the depths of our listings!

WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK OF US

Some lovely people, in recent years, have said things like this about us:

Thanks so much, your website is wonderful!!!

The catalogue is very impressive.

Cheers… a great shopping day for me – I didn't even have to go out in the rain! Exactly what I wanted to do – touch up some stuff I hadn't heard in a while. Thank you.

I'll visit your website every day because I saw a lot of GREAT records, you have the best record store I've seen in my f*cking life.

The customer service has been excellent.

I am well impressed with the service from Rhythm.

Thank you for distributing our releases. You have a nice stock. The right mix between guitar music and electronics.

Your shipment was super fast, awesome service!

Thanks for your help - you seem like a very nice bunch of people.

You have great beautiful stuff!

Thanks very much for getting back to me. I really appreciate it that you have taken the time to do this, it's a pity some so-called bigger e-retailers don't take a leaf out of your book for a lesson in customer service!!

Thanks for having such a cool webpage and shop. We need more alternative shops in the world.

Your lists are impressive. You have lots of hard to find stuff I heard on the John Peel show! Wicked site.

I got the records – in record time and great condition. Thanks a million.

Placing orders with Rhythm makes me feel all 1988-ish.

As customer service goes, this is remarkable.

There is so much good stuff in the catalogue I wish I had more money.


 


Three Circles Recording Studio

We are based just south east of Cambridge and have just opened our brand new recording studio. We provide studio and location recording services as well as live sound engineering, PA and equipment hire and a wide range of other audio related services.

Our website is www.threecircles.co.uk.

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Mobile Recording in Cambridge

I can provide mobile recording of bands, DJs etc. I can travel to your practice room and record you 'live' or track by track.

I have worked with the likes of The Pony Collaboration, The Virgin Suicides, Foxy Ramone, Pilots of the Sixth, AD/HD etc.

Competitive rates for R*E*P*E*A*T Readers!

Mail me here for more details.


Recording in Suffolk

Tom and Paz (from the Tommy Twist and the Jive) work as a production house in our own studios. We do live recording at Pennylane studio (www.pennylanestudio.co.uk) and then we mix at Red room studio, or still at Pennylane.